Hey everyone! How are ya'll doing?? ‘twas another awesome week out here in the mission field! Don't want to rub it in, but ya'll are missing out! Haha!! It was another busy week. I always think to myself every single week that things will slow down a little bit this week, but I find myself wrong every single week, so it was another busy one that came and left! We had 2 exchanges and a zone conference that was all day Wednesday. It was a very good zone conference, the last “teaching” zone conference that President and Sister Mansell will have on their mission! This summer is going to be very weird! There are going to be a lot of changes taking place. Since this was their last teaching zone conference, ;( prior to it, they thought it would be best if the trainings were requested by us as missionaries. There were a lot of ideas that came into fruition, and President gave a 4 hour training on most of the things that were requested. We got some “doctrine fire” the entire time and I learned some things that I thought I had down, but turned out that I didn't because there was just so much more. That is the glory of the Gospel, you can never get enough of it. As long you know the basic units that make it up, and strive to live them, all the unanswered questions that we may have of how everything works out will come. The Lord continues to give us line by line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, the more we come to understand more about his will, the more he will give us and it's such a huge blessing that I have found on my mission as I continue to experience wonderful things.
Something else that has been going on this week is bike week. I find it near impossible to bike in this area because of how spread out everything is, but regardless of that, it is time to put the car keys away and get out on those bikes everyday. On Saturday, we made a 20 mile round trip down to the southern part of our area to spend the day down there. It was really fun riding all the way out there, but man, I haven't had a good bike ride like that ever since I got my biking merit badge in scouts, so I have been pretty sore. It was definitely worth it! We met this really cool part member family down there, the husband is active but the wife is not a member for some weird reason. We have found a lot of people like that in this area which is amazing to me! She was the only one home, and was super sweet to us, found out that we biked 10 miles to get there, so she offered us a lot of things! We also found a few potentials down in that part of the area as well, all over the age of 80! This one guy was a devote church of Christ guy and has been that way all of his life, but he told us we could come back and tell him more about the Book of Mormon we left him with. I'm so Thankful that we have the book of mormon! It's definitely the most powerful tool for missionary work! Hopefully he can feel that power as he reads it! We also met Ruth, who is a German native, it doesn't seem like religion was a part of her life when she lived in Germany, but ever since she moved to the United States, she has become exposed to it, so she claims Christian! We'll see how that goes as we try to meet up with her.
Well, all is well down here in the South! Still busy, busy, busy and very sore from biking! I can't wait for another week that is to come! We are already halfway through the transfer, so times are flying!! Can't wait to talk with y'all again next week! Hope ya'll have another great one! Love ya!!
Love,
Elder Weese
Pictures:
1) Exchange chillin'
2) "Let's take a pic!
3) Texas roadhouse after zone conference!
4) Demolished tree from a lightning storm!
5) Safe parking spot for our bikes!
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