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Zone Conference at the Temple, in Miniature Photography
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Happy Thanksgiving, everybody:
So I'll start by answering your questions about my zone, just so I don't forget. My zone
leaders' names are Elder Staheli and Elder Payne, and they are stationed in Ottawa.
My district leader's name is Elder Adams, but he's being transferred this week,
so I don't know who the new district leader is yet. The district leader stays
in Morris.
We had one zone conference a couple of weeks ago, and it was
fantastic. President Fenn speaks at all of them, and there are few people that
I've ever heard that speak with as much power as he does. He kind of reminds me
of a coach in some ways, because he'll raise his voice, point his finger, shake
his fist, and sometimes even pound the table for emphasis. He's got so much
fire in him, and I've really learned a lot from him so far.
I've been on 4
exchanges so far: once with Elder Adams in Morris, once with Elder Pike (my
current zone leader that is being replaced by Elder Staheli) here in
Bourbannais, once with Elder Clark (last Saturday, a man that Elder Clark's
companion and Elder Engler baptized went through the temple, so they went to
that and Elder Clark and I went proselyting), and with Elders Blackner and
Dickerson (President Fenn always takes assistants that are going home out to
dinner, so Elder Engler and Elder Ward, who is training the two new assistants,
went out to dinner, and I did some proselyting with the assistants).
We take
members out to lessons as often as we can, but unfortunately, they fall through
a lot of the time. Speaking of which, we didn't teach a single lesson this
week, which was too bad. We saw Kendall and Jermaine, but neither of them had
time to sit down (although they still seemed interested, which is good), and
none of our other investigators or potential investigators returned our calls
or our texts, and weren't home when we stopped by. But we're working hard, and
we keep finding people who are interested, so hopefully we'll start putting some people on date soon
and teaching some lessons.
I'll have to write you next week about my new companion.
I'll miss Elder Engler. He's taught me a lot and given me so much insight on
how to be a good missionary. He's worked hard every day, and he's not "trunkie"
at all, which makes it really easy to go out and work.
Happy Thanksgiving to you! It sounds like you'll get a
little bit of time to relax, which is great. The Relief Society President and
her husband are having us over for dinner, which will be great. And after that,
we're driving up to Downers Grove to hear a fireside from President Fenn, which
I'm stoked about.
I love you all and I'll talk to you again next week!
Elder Dallas Anderson
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