This week has been pretty cool.  We've been able to do some cool things.

So last Monday we had zone conference and it was with our zone and the Eugene zone down in the Eugene Stake Center. It was a really good zone conference on becoming better teachers.  Elder Henley and I taught a 20 minute segment on resolving our investigators concerns.  It went super well actually.  I felt like we taught really well together and we did an object lesson with it which went really well and a lot of people really liked it.  So we were super glad that went smoothly!

Tuesday the whole zone was able to go to Newport.  We had a good time on the beach and hanging out together.  It's always good to be back at the beach when we can.  So that was a great start to the week.  

Thursday we had another great day and we were able to go back to Newport to do a baptismal interview for the Newport elders' investigator.  I did the interview and she is super solid and so ready to be baptized.  After the interview we couldn't get a hold of the Newport elders to give them back the paperwork because they were in a lesson so we decided to drive up the road a bit to the lighthouse and see the sunset.  It turned out that you had to pay to get to the lighthouse if you were in a car so we parked and jogged a mile to see the lighthouse and sunset before the park closed.  haha It was way sick though and then after we gave them back the paperwork we headed home.

Throughout the week though we were able to have a lot of great lessons! We were able to teach Jacob and Anissa again which was great and we were also able to have some really good lessons with some of our newer investigators.  Definitely a good week for working with those that we've been teaching or have found lately.  We were also able to have four people at church this week which is great.  It was overall a good week and great to be able to have some good lessons!

Stay Solid

This week went well for the most part.  We had some good times and some good lessons.

Tuesday we had leadership council again which went well.  Not the most exciting meeting but it's helpful in trying to see ways to become a better leader.  That night we got back and had a lesson and played some basketball with Jacob and Anisa which was fun!  They are super cool and its great to see them understand more and become more willing to change.  

Wednesday we had an exchange the whole day with the 1st ward Elders.  I went with Elder Packer, who just came out 3 weeks ago. Their area is really lacking so we went to their area instead. I really wanted to do some good hard work to show him some success and how he can be bold in talking to people but have fun in doing the work.  We had a good long day and found some new people to teach.  So if nothing else, it was a good experience for me.  Throughout the week we found several more new people.  We were also able to teach some of our other investigators and some of the new investigators we found on campus!

On Friday we had interviews with President Orton which went well.  He's a super nice dude and he's pretty soft spoken but its good. I had a good interview but i'm kind of concerned about what's going to happen this transfer.  I have a feeling I'm leaving. haha

On Friday and Saturday we had another exchange with the 2nd ward elders and that went pretty well too.  At church we were able to have 4 of our investigators there so that was pretty dope!  It's such a struggle to get young people to meet with you let alone get them to come to three hours of church. We have done a lot of talking to people on campus though and a lot of tracting in some of the other areas.

Oh, and for the miracle of the week....while on the exchange on Friday we had dinner with the Chinese sisters and they made us cookies.  I always try to make sure I know what kind they are so I know they don't have peanuts but they said they were chocolate chip.  So I ate a good piece of one but after I ate it I could totally tell there was probably peanut butter in it.  lol  So I just kind of waited to see if I was going to die or not ( I never carry my epipen) and I definitely didn't feel good but I didn't start dying.  So for the entire night, from dinner on, my stomach started hurting worse and worse and it was awful.  So after talking to people on campus the rest of the night in great pain, I went straight to bed when I got home.  The miracle is that I didn't die because usually I just stop breathing and whatnot.  But hey, I was still able to breathe and it worked out....because I'm a missionary :)

Some Random things:
1.  I've been a ZL for 9 months now
2.  The Chinese sisters said if I go to China I could be a model  lol
3.  A lot of people think Avery is cute (I have our family pic on my desk)
4.  People are going nuts about a solar eclipse that's going through here at the end of August
5.  I'm going to grow my hair out again when I get home
6.  I can play quite a few more songs on the piano now
7.  I email probably half as many people now than I did at the beginning of my mission
8.  I would never live in Oregon after my mission

Stay Solid
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