Week 54 Last Week was Awesome

Last week was Awesome!

1.) We had an awesome spiritual MLC (mission leader conference) on Friday! Pres dog savage says that this mission in our region leads in the number of baptisms happening and he is very proud of the hard work we have been putting in. The brethren have come out and said at the president seminar that the Lord is pleased but he isn't satisfied. And so the challenge for our mission specifically is to basically triple the amount of people we teach.   President says he wants us to have a teaching pool of 7-11 "progressing" investigators we are meeting with every week. T
hat's a challenge for Parker.  Elder Bird and I have 2 right now lol that's buns! Its hard. we meet and talk to so many people and actually find more investigators in the area than this ward has seen in a while. but we pass them all off or they move away or they never text us back! the struggle is real but our zone set a specific goal to baptize 15 people in the month of September and we are determined! I have the faith I just don't know how. I feel like the brother of Jared! I have the faith but the Lord is looking at me and saying you're smart why don't you figure it out. So my resolution, grab a bunch of rocks ask the Lord to turn them into people and let me teach and baptize them........lol only if I lived in the year 2200 BC it would be possible.  Elder Bird and I are trying super hard. 

2.) Last week we saw a miracle happen. Someone heard about our bball activity and showed up at the court. I taught him the restoration, sacrament meeting attendance, baptism and the P.O.S and at the end he showed me his arm and goosebumps were running up his arm. He said he felt peace. I reaffirmed to him that it is the spirit telling you this is the path. He agreed and said before I even said a word about baptism that he wants to be baptized he knows he needs to. he is a thug from Texas but such a genuine super nice guy! its funny because that day we met, we didn't want to do the activity but I said we should probably go and see. and what do you know he is there shootin' hoops! If I never learned bball then I wouldn't have talked to that guy hahaha! but we are passing him off to Running Creek because he is in that Ward and he is 32, just one year over the YSA age limit! 

3.) Elder Bird had a tumor in his appendix but they caught it so early that he is okay! It's a miracle that it burst because his cancer could have gone unnoticed for a long time to the point where it could have become life threatening. So in a couple weeks he will have to do a colonoscopy and he will be in the hospital for 3 days! poor guy, I feel so bad for him! but he is doing okay! 

4.) I got nothing else, I don't think! today was the temple trip and sister Simmons came to our session as well as my good friend Nathan Crowley in our ward who decided to get up early in the morning because he wanted to go with us lol! It was a good trip. I went in with a question and got an answer. The temple is so awesome!