Hey everyone! This past week has just flown by! It’s
weird to think that this time next week I’ll be in Montana! I’ve got mixed
feelings about it because I obviously want to get out into the field and work
at bringing others to Christ but I’ve just come to love my district so much
that I’m going to miss them once they're
gone because I won’t be able to see them.
But hey a few funny things have happened this
week… first me and this other elder whose going to Montana (Elder Anderson)
decided to sneak a ton of silverware into his companions coat pockets during
dinner (It was Elder Scouson). We were
about to just head into choir when he found them! We literally put like 20
pieces in his coat in random places!
Also you know that piñata you sent me mom? Well
we busted that thing up and the whole floor had a blast! But this Sunday the
branch president said that piñatas are against the rules and that we can’t do
them anymoreL So I’m sorry
mom; if you were planning on sending another one you can’t because it’s a rule
now 😅
We’ve had a few things happen with our TRC's
(Training Resource Center). This is a thing where they mix real investigators
with not real ones and we teach them a few lessons to help us learn how to do
things out in the field. I freaking love them, but we’ve had one funny thing
that happened and an amazing experience happen while doing this training.
First the funny thing…
This week we got
some new investigators and so we went to this one lady to teach her and we were
planning on teaching her the first lesson.
So we're talking to her to get to know her a bit more and it was weird…
all the questions that she was answering weren't anywhere near what we knew
about her from her slip of paper they give us to help us with a quick bio in
it. It was at this point that she asked
us if we were teaching the wrong lady so we asked her how she pronounced her
name (because she was from japan and I didn't know) and she pronounces it… it
wasn't our investigator! It wasn't even close!! So we quickly apologized and
went to go find our investigator and it turned out that she was sick! Talk
about embarrassing!! oh well it was good for a laugh :)
Now for the not embarrassing moment…
so before the other
experience we had 2 investigators and their names were Zach and Sydney. Our first TRC was with Zach and my experience
with him reminds me of the story of Benjamin Franklin Johnson; (This is Jaxon’s
Great-Great-Great Grandfather who was best friends with the prophet Joseph
Smith) where he gave great talks to many people and he got prideful so when he
went to speak to a big congregation nothing happened and he couldn’t do it. Well the same thing happened to me and my
companion. We were feeling great because
we had given some great lessons before, and we got a bit prideful. It was the worst lesson ever! The spirit didn’t teach and it was telling
us, “you can’t teach without the spirit”.
We used this as a humbling experience and quickly repented and our
lesson with Sydney later that night went so great. The spirit led that lesson and testified to
me as to what God wanted me to say and talk about to invite the spirit.
-Elder Zeller
p.s. Warner I got your letter! And my mailbox number is 216
for anyone who wants to knowJ
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