September 5, 2011

Hello Everyone!!
This week was a very busy but very exciting week! We were able to teach a lot of new people. We had a Zone Leader council meeting and we also had a few exchanges. I have found that being a zone leader can be stressful at times but at the end of the day it feels great because I feel like I have done so much. Well this week I went on exchanges with an elder named Elder Nelson. He is pretty new to the mission field and works very hard. He and I had the opportunity to teach one of the craziest lessons I have taught so far on my mission. We taught a man by the name of John. John invited us in and had a table set up for us in his front room. He had a plate with three water bottles there and he had a stack of books and papers right next to his seat. At the beginning of the lesson he asked what our names were and he wrote down each elders name. Throughout the lesson he took notes on everything we said. He would constantly refer to these notes throughout the lesson. We had taught him on exchanges before about 6 weeks previous. This time, he had the notes from the pas two lessons typed up on a piece of paper and he had notes written and marked for each corresponding elder. It was pretty intense. He is a very knowledgeable man and also had printouts from online of the topics we were covering that he had found from various websites, mostly anti-mormon websites. He was asking a lot of questions that he was trying to prove us wrong and was almost bashing. I guess, it is needless to say we didn't get to far in the lesson before I bore my testimony to him and told him that the only way he will know the truthfulness of our message is through sincerity, and that he really wasn't showing that. I told him we will only meet with him if he is willing to keep commitments that we give him and to come to church. He got quiet and said he would do his best. I hope it goes well with those next elders that teach him. I cannot believe how fast time is flying by, I hope everyone is doing well. I don't have much else to add for this week but I hope to hear from all of you!