there's a snake in my boot

January 9, 2012

yo! how was everybody's week? still feels like fall here, hopefully the snow never comes :D this week was a good week. it was a difficult one though. lots of things were falling through and we were trying to patient. what was sweet was last night when we were collecting the zone totals, the zone hit all but one of our goals that we had set as a zone, they were pretty high too. so even though we had some tough days it was good to see overall cool things are happening. and we had some good things happen here in plymouth too.

hey i just got my x-ray cd to work! when i got that piece of metal taken out of my foot last year, i asked for an x-ray to keep. all they gave me was a disc with the pictures saved on it. i haven't gotten it to open up at any of the other libraries, but it worked here. let me see if i can send the pictures from it into the email. alright, i think that worked. that was in there for about a month, but the show goes on even if you get shanked in detroit.

we had a cool experience this week where we saw that new investigator i was talking about last week. another really good lesson. she still doesn't feel super comfortable coming to church yet, a large part is because she's been let down by so many other churches in her life that she's having a hard time exercising her faith now, but she let her son come yesterday which was really cool. he's 12. he seemed to really enjoy it. we also worked with the daughter of another investigator, we've been working with the mom for a while but the daughter is still really new in investigating. it was neat because the mom wasn't able to make it but the daughter was still wondering if we were able to meet her. so we met her at the library and brought another girl from the ward who's about the same age. it's cool being able to work with families, even if the lessons are scattered and the progress is at different levels. we find to teach, teach to baptize, baptize to seal. the gospel blesses individuals, but ultimately it's here to bless families.

i went on an exchange with a missionary this week down in detroit, back on bike. i haven't had a good bike day in a long time. my legs were sore the next day, but that's how you gauge a good bike day. and on that exchange, we started teaching a family and picked them all up as new investigators. a really prepared family, even the kids were really taking things away from it and giving good answers.

we had zone leader council meeting this week. that was cool, the four zone leader companionships and the assistants got together with pres and sis holmes at the mission home and talked about the mission all day. it's cool to see more of the work that goes on behind the scenes in the mission, and to be able to participate in that too. tomorrow is specialized training for two zones, those have always been fun because there's good food and you always get pumped up from the instructions. it's a little less exciting when you're the one doing some of the instructing though, so today for preparation day we'll be working on getting that ready. well, gotta go. have a good week! good luck with school!

love,

elder lamb