Well, this week was an interesting one, getting used to being zone leader. I'm determined to have a good attitude about it. I dislike meetings, and planning, unfortunately both of which are large parts of my new role as a zone leader. Still, the Lord blesses us wI also dislike meetings, and planning, unfortunately both of which are large parts of my new role as a zone leader. Still, the Lord blesses us with the little time we have to work in our area, and it has been incredible to see the blessings flow in the little bit of time we get each day. Right now we're especially bogged down because we have to plan for Stake Coordination where we meet with the Stake President and his counselors, potentially some of the Bishops, and President Matsumori. Haha yeah, super pressured! Then we've also been planning for Leadership meeting, setting goals and what not for the zone, and then we've also had to start planning for Combined District Meeting, it's been crazy, but good. It's really helped me learn to appreciate the time I have to work, and be what I call a "real missionary". Haha it gives you a new fire for talking with everyone and makes you use your time very effectively. It's also been weird though. Throughout the whole mission I've looked at my Zone Leaders as super incredible/almost perfect missionaries, and now I'm here and I realize that we're just normal, we actually don't know that much, we kind of pretend like we know what's going on, and we try to work hard and be good examples. Haha it's super weird to hear people say "Just like the Zone Leaders said". ith the little time we have to work in our area, and it has been incredible to see the blessings flow in the little bit of time we get each day. Right now we're especially bogged down because we have to plan for Stake Coordination where we meet with the Stake President and his counselors, potentially some of the Bishops, and President Matsumori. Haha yeah, super pressured! Then we've also been planning for Leadership meeting, setting goals and what not for the zone, and then we've also had to start planning for Combined District Meeting, it's been crazy, but good. It's really helped me learn to appreciate the time I have to work, and be what I call a "real missionary". Haha it gives you a new fire for talking with everyone and makes you use your time very effectively. It's also been weird though. Throughout the whole mission I've looked at my Zone Leaders as super incredible/almost perfect missionaries, and now I'm here and I realize that we're just normal, we actually don't know that much, we kind of pretend like we know what's going on, and we try to work hard and be good examples. Haha it's super weird to hear people say "Just like the Zone Leaders said".
Anyways it's been cool to be able to get to know some other missionaries, to see some of their struggles and really just think about how we can help them become the missionaries the Lord would have them be. It's been a very humbling experience, and it'll be a good one, though I will definitely miss working all the time every day.
This Sunday a member decided to bring her friend to church, and I have honestly never met anyone as prepared as [J]. In Sunday School he starts to explain he fall of Adam better than I've ever heard it explained by any member, so much so that the teacher asked him if he was a member. Then in Priesthood he just whips open the scriptures as if he's been reading them his whole life, and he says to me, "I feel like I've been here before, I'm just super comfortable here". Yeah, crazy! Then we went to the VC with him later that night and he said the same thing, he was literally at the point of tears, and he understood why we do baptisms for the dead the first time we explained it to him. Super crazy! It was incredible to see how God prepares people.
Unfortunately he will also still have his struggles, as well as his girlfriend. His girlfriend has a crazy life... Honestly one of the saddest I've probably ever heard, it almost brought tears to our eyes just to listen to her tell her story. Still, the power of the atonement is very real, and while it will be a process to be able to heal, I'm confident that she will one day be fully healed and be a completely different person. It was a really cool week, and it went by incredibly fast, we're extremely busy, and we're trying to work and plan hard. Hopefully the Lord will continue to pour out the blessings and we'll be able to organize our time sufficiently to be able to all the things that the Lord requires of us.
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