We had zone conference up in Blackfoot; it’s always good to
hear from President Hancock. He did a Q&A session at the end, and it was
like write a question, so some one, I think it was someone going home, but someone
submitted the question what time is a good time to get married. President’s
reply was....... *drum roll*........ After the mission. Then he moved on to the
next question, which happened to be "what do I do if imp attracted to a
girl in my area"...... These were very deep questions, the answer was you don’t
do anything or you get a new area. There were better questions like questions
about how to help investigators progress and all that good stuff.
The big thing he wanted us to was to improve our studies. The
sentence that stuck out to me in PMG is "while learning from a teacher is
good, it is more important to have meaningful spiritual experiences on your
own." I reason that it’s because when you have that independent witness,
you become a lot firmer in your faith, where as if your faith is based in
someone else, what’s going to happen in that person goes through a difficult
time.
We also had a really good lesson with Tammy, one of our
investigators. I've really been trying to work on explaining things simply. So
we read a lot of scriptures with her but throughout the lesson we stopped and
made sure she understood, and took a minute just to emphasize the key points.
The tough part about this week we had a family we were
trying to meet with that got evicted suddenly, due to a disagreement with the
land lord. It was raining and they had nowhere to go and there wasn’t much we
could really do for them except just be there. They have found a place to stay
temporarily but we aren't sure where they are.
The rain was actually a really good thing though, with all
the fires many people were fasting that it would die down. Then it rained the
next day, so the fires around Pocatello at least are under control.
We also went mountain biking this morning that was fun.
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