We had Zone Conference this Wednesday and it was good! I feel like every zone conference gets a little less exciting though. Like I know what is coming. Musical number. Sister Fisher roasting us. President Fisher telling us to love our companions and to be a little more obedient. One or two trainings from Preach My Gospel from the Zone Leaders, and people crying from the departing sister's testimonies. I was praying before Zone conference that my heart would be softened and that I would learn something that I needed to and the only real big thing I learned is that I need to be doing more studies and more meaningful studies. So, I have made a new goal that when we are just sitting around for 20 minutes at dinner, to use that time to study more. I am excited to see how Heavenly Father will use my knowledge that I learn during meal times!
This week we had a lesson with Savanna! I don't know if you remember, but she is the girl that we met in the South Visitor's Center and took on a tour and almost committed to baptism in the first 30 minutes. Yup. Well, we finally got to video call her at like 9ish (11ish her time in Florida) and it was a good time. We talked about the Book of Mormon and her boy problems and if the Book of Mormon could help her even with things like that. We invited her to pray and to go to church. She couldn't make it this week but she promised to go next week and we are excited because the Young Single Adult ward is right near her! She is just so busy though. She works all day and then has night school so it is really hard to stay in contact with her consistently. We are praying that the Young Single Adult ward will provide her with some good friends and that will motivate her more to meet with missionaries and to read and pray and grow. It was so cool though because she told us that she was stressed earlier in the week and was crying that she really wanted to feel comfort and she just picked up the Book of Mormon, not even to read, but just to hold and immediately she just felt more peace. That was a huge testimony to me that the Book of Mormon brings peace. She didn't even have to read it and she could feel it! We are so excited for her to read it and to really experience how it can change her life.
This week was filled with tours on tours on tours. Thankfully, these tours were not mean like the last ones. We had a super good flagpole tour and the people were all super interested and kind. Two of the ladies on the tour had already gotten a Book of Mormon from sisters earlier and had gotten their contact info too. They promised us that they would email them as they started to read. The other couple was soooo funny because literally at the end, they had to go and catch their flight and the dude was like "okay, we need to go now" and the lady was like "but you don't understand I want to go to the museum and see the death masks of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, it'll only take a second, please we have time" and the dude was like "I don't really feel like you are listening to me, we have thirty minutes to get to the airport we need to go". I don't know what they decided to do in the end, but I got the lady's phone number and I sent her the link to the church's website so she could watch General Conference! She seemed especially interested. She hasn't texted me back yet so I think I will try again in a few days and remind her that General Conference is this weekend and to tune in.
Speaking of General Conference..... IT IS RIGHT HERE PEOPLE. LITERALLY THIS WEEKEND!!!! This conference is no different than the last. I swear, for the sisters on Temple Square, Conference is the equivalent of the Grammys or the Oscars. Sister Brinkmeier is now calling herself "fake". Today for pday she bought fake tanner, fake eyelashes, a new kind of curler thingy, etc. all for Conference. Like half of the sisters here are doing similar things and it cracks me up. Sister Brinkmeier told me that "she's got me" for Conference for makeup and stuff so that'll be good because I literally have no idea how to do anything like that.
We had our service project this week. We went to Days for Girls! That is the organization that makes reusable feminine hygiene for girls in Africa who don't have access to it. This is my second time doing it on the mission. It is a really cool project! The job that I did this time around though was super boring. We literally made sure that the bags that they all came in were the right size and that the ribbons were burned so they wouldn't unravel. After that, we all went to In-n-Out. Don't get me wrong, I think that it is good, but I don't think that it is good enough for all of the hype that everyone gives it. But, it was fun to go and get to know some of the Sisters in the Zone better. We ended up getting back to Temple Square super late and we missed two appointments that we had set up. I was so mad but hey, one of them rescheduled and the other one never responded to my text or calls later so she probably wouldn't have picked up the phone for our appointment anyway.
This transfer has been really good for finding new people. We usually find between 10-13 new people a week and a lot of the referrals that we send and talk to and text are actually progressing with the local missionaries which is awesome! Especially because we had about six people who were on date to be baptized at the beginning of the transfer and all of them have fallen off date except for one. Please pray for Alisha Pressler that she will just keep on keeping on and progressing for her baptismal date on October 12th!!!
Honestly, this week was not that fun and not really anything happened. So I guess that is all that I have for you! I love you both so much and I miss you so much and I hope that you have the best week ever!!!!!
Love
Em
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