April 13, 2011

April 13, 2011 - Week 4 of Transfer 10


I think I begin my emails the same each week. "This week has been hectic and each week gets more busy and more busy" But its true! Don't know how else to say it. We started to teach two new guys this past week, had several intense meetings and alot to deal with in the zone. We also got two new Elders who are waiting for a visa for Argentina, they were an answer to our prayers. So two threesomes in our zone. Actually it's funny now that I think of it both of my MTC companions are in our zone and received a visa waiter, that's weird.

Moving on... We had ZLC (zone leader council) on Friday and some intense matters were discussed. They are always 6 hours long (standard for missions worldwide) but this was the first one that felt like 10 hours for me! Some of the topics were left without a decision, which killed me, and a few we decided on. They allowed us to bring topics to the table we would like to discuss, Elder Atwood and I had some good ones that were talked about for awhile. One of them was the way we do interviews and they changed it, basically allow the zone leaders to use their creativity and do what they would like. Before district leaders did their weekly training but everyone was in and out and to hard carry.

While on the subject of interviews our zone's were yesterday. President met us yesterday at 9:00am for ours (which was amazing and revelational), the zones started at 10am and ended at 4pm... it was a long day. We cycled the three districts in and out throughout the day and everything worked out perfectly. We had everyone bring in their area books for the training, well more the activity. We reviewed some basics, got rid of false traditions with area books, trained on parts that no one uses then went to town on area books. Just doing our area book a few weeks back was a huge headache but doing it for six hours straight on 20 different area books, with no food, was deadly. There were some disgusting area books, some completely outdated others who created their own system of k-os! It went great, some big time improvement made.

We gave two talks this past week and we speak again this coming Sunday. I am have clue on what I will be speaking about, running out of ideas and need some good stories. I don't like using the same story more than once in a talk. I better start praying, its so hard to find time to prepare. Like I said earlier two new investigators and both of them accepted baptismal dates. Both lessons were super "spiritual" and motivating. I love teaching with Elder Atwood, its so easy!

Here is the extremely sad news from this past week. I have lost my scriptures... and it is killing me. After a year of marking them for two hours everyday they meant alot to me. I've learned so many things and they are all written in them! We drove away from our zone building (a stake center) and I placed them and the zone binder on the hood of the van. Well we went back in the building for a few, came out and just peaced. Don't even ask me how I didn't see them, the hood is way below the seat (its a 12 seater van). So we drove for 10 minutes then realized, drove back and not there. We have searched everywhere but nothing. I am just praying a member got them and is trying to get them back to me, my name is everywhere on it and zone binder has numbers. I will wait two weeks until I buy new ones but my studies will suck until then.

Ok times up! I love you guys and miss you, phone call pretty soon eh? I am excited, you like the eh? I'm getting it back and slowly getting rid of this Utahan accent.

Love Elder Pizzey!