Last Thursday we had Zone Conference and it was awesome. The main themes were daily planning, finding, and picking up the pace overall. We led two breakout rooms about these topics and they went pretty good. We had an object lesson for the planning and it didn't go exactly as planned (ironic). We had two people playing connect 4 and one of them was blindfolded. The idea was that doing missionary work without planning is like playing connect 4 with a blindfold on. The problem was that Elder Payne, the one blindfolded, won! It was hilarious, because the other Elder got beat by someone who couldn't even see. We still got our point across by saying that there are miracles sometimes, but they don't come as often when you don't plan.
It was so funny
The rest of the conference went smoothly, I also got to see some good friends (as usual). It was a fun day and I think we were able to get the point across.
PLAN EVERY DAY
EFFECTIVELY FIND, EVERY DAY
PICK UP THE PACE, EVERY DAY
Kind of bugs me sometimes that these things have to be repeated so often to experienced missionaries. Oh well though, no one is perfect. I'm definitely not.
We haven't had our car for most of this week, so we've been carpooling and catching rides for a bit. The other day we decided to just blitz with some other Elders and it was an experience I won't forget...
Elder Jackson and I met a guy our age and taught him about the Restoration. We talked to him on his front yard and had a great discussion. He also knows several members in the ward over here so there's already some great connections! We taught the apostasy in a way neither of us ever had before and it was awesome! Gabriel (that's the kid) understood and was pretty interested. It was a tender mercy for me, because I haven't taught a good lesson in several days.
Later that night all 4 of us were in their car and we stopped by someone in their area to see how they were. Elder Nestripke and I stayed in the car with the assumption that it would only be a couple of minutes. The car was left running, so we had AC. But the doors were locked and they still had the key, so we couldn't get out without the alarm going off. After about 10 minutes (we were just making calls while we waited) the car automatically shut off. We weren't too worried because we assumed they would be back any minute. Turns out that the contact turned into a full on lesson. Which is awesome! For them. We sat in that car for about an hour and by the end of it we were sweating profusely and half dead . It got so hot in that car, but we didn't want to disrupt the lesson with a car alarm, so we just sucked it up and kept making calls. The other Elders got back and were super confused until we explained what happened.
Then they laughed.
I didn't laugh.
Besides almost having a heat stroke, this week was awesome! We had great things happen and we expect even more great things this next week. I'll hit 18 months in a couple days!
-Elder Peterson
Elder Frogley and I retook the salad picture. The more vibrant one is from our first zone conference. The one without the stage is last week.
We also went to the temple last Tuesday with President Ross and some sisters from the Beaumont zone.
