Tuesday we went to a members for dinner and he told us beforehand to prepare some deep doctrine questions. So we did and we had a deep doctrine conversation the whole night. He studied at BYU with Brad Wilcox and a lot of other BYU professors. So he is VERY smart. After that we had planned to play elders quorum ball at the church but no one showed. So we went back out and only had 10 minutes before nine, so we went walking around and had a small miracle of finding someone new to teach!
Wednesday we did some knocking and going by people, with a little bit of success. Also had a power hour where we went out with a couple members to do some work. This time it was service so we helped a lady move her piano.
Thursday we did a lot of running around. We prepared and got things for our zone conference training. Had lunch with Bro Simpson. We tried to get some of his friends to come but got no one. Then we went out with another member but our lesson fell through. So we cruised up to Cedar Rapids for stake council and that was great! Got to see some old members and the council was on their stake conference that is coming up. They have A TON of great ideas to get people of other faiths out to stake conference and it's all missionary minded. With a stake mission plan that is being pushed. So each family has it in their home and the missionaries are keeping them accountable. Great meeting.
Friday we had Zone Conference in Nauvoo! We gave a training on the Word of Wisdom, not just a health code. They also said, the higher law of the word of wisdom. We were trying hard to think of something to come up with. And recently I had bought a baby bottle to use as a water bottle because I saw a thug using one so I knew it was the new thing! So then everyone in our zone bought one! Lol so we decided to tie it into the training! So basically we had an analogy of the Doctrine and Covenant scripture of milk before meat in the Gospel and we compared it to the baby bottle because you don't get much out of the baby bottle until you put a bigger hole in it. So we titled the training. Get SIP'N. It's an acronym:
Sanctification
Inspiration
Protection
=
Nowledge with an N.
So we talked about teaching these things and helping them understand them and building up the people we teach from the beginning and preparing them for the word of wisdom. So as they do those things the spirit will be with them more which will help them get more out of the bottle. Or more of the spirit and gospel. I hope that makes sense, this is rushed. But it went really really well! I loved it! We all showed up to zone conference with our baby bottle and we had made stickers and put them on it. We also gave everyone there a few stickers so they could put them places and never forget! The crowd seemed to love it.
Saturday was game day so that's always crazy. Luckily we were able to weekly plan during the game and we got to go to a part member families BBQ that was fun.
Sunday we struck out again with no one being at church. Super sad. Lots of people told us right before that they would be there.
All is well out here! Love and miss you,
Elder Anderson
Pics
Zone fun at the temple.
Zone fun at the Nauvoo Temple
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