Dear Family,
Today I am being transferred to Lakes Zone!
I will be with Elder Herlin, who was made a zl the same time I was! His
companion, Elder Dowdle, will be coming and taking my place. So we are
just switching spots for a while! I am very sad to be leaving Elder
Manning! I've learned so much from him and I hope his last transfer in
the mission goes great! However, I'm excited to be getting Elder Herlin!
This past week we received a referral from the bishop. We taught
her this last Friday and it went so well! This is our first new
investigator since the training by Brother Donaldson from SLC so we
could start using the teaching ideas that he gave us! The lesson went so
well and I could tell a difference between this lesson and the previous
lessons we have taught together. Her name is Latricia and she committed
to being baptized when she knows that its true!!! so Fun!!!
We had the opportunity to go to the Zion's Youth Symphony. It was a
great performance! Every year the youth from the Vegas area do a show
that people can bring investigators or friends to. This year they did
"How Firm a Foundation", which was themed after the founding fathers and
American history. It was so great! Almost like listening to the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir! It's ironic that we were listening to the '100
Years' cd of MoTab and most of the songs that Zion's Youth sang were on
the cd we listened to that day!
I almost forgot! This past Saturday was the 100 years of Scouting
in the lds church and we were asked to help cook breakfast and lunch for
over 5,000 scouts! We woke up at 4a.m. to be there by 4:30a.m.! It was a
blast!!! but seriously it was cool... except the whole waking up at 4
thing. It was really fun to work and cook! Its amazing what being on
your feet for over 12 hours will do! We were very thankful for daylight
savings, once we figured out that if you put your clock one hour behind
you gain an hour! At first we thought that it was the opposite so we
were pleasantly surprised!
Well that's about it for this week!!! I love you all!!!
Love,
Elder John
"It
is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face
is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs
and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without
error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who
knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a
worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails whole
daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
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