So this week I'm pretty sure I am the person in
the song 500 miles or whatever where he says, "I would walk 500 miles and
I would walk 500 more just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to fall
down at your door." Yeah I'm pretty
sure that's me. I put some major miles
on these shoes this past week. It was
pretty sweet and I got some gnarly blisters from it but hey such is the life of
a missionary. Well anyway I'll give the
little play by play of this past week… 
So basically Monday was slow and we didn't
really do anything besides email and laundry... but after that we met up with some other elders
to go on exchanges so I spent Monday night, Tuesday and Wednesday morning in
Whitehall and Sheridan Montana. So we go
and I get there and we find out that they forgot their phone charger in Whitehall.
So we hop in the car and drive about 45
minutes to their place in Whitehall for a charger and then 45 minutes back. But the time we get back it's basically time
to head into the apartment. So that's
what we did. Then the next day we wake
up do our thing and Elder Whiting is like, "you wanna go to a town we
don't go to very often if ever??" And I was like, "heck yeah!"
So we did and it was sweet! Talked to
quite a few people and got ourselves out there. But it was cool. We saw some sweet train tracks so I had to
take a few pictures haha. 
Then we saw
this Mexican restaurant that had me in stitches I was laughing so hard!! It's
called “Nacho Mamas” and it's so funny if you think about it... or maybe it was
just me and I'm easily entertained but it was super funny. We walked around and then decided to head
back to twin bridges and on the way out I saw a Nevada city sign and decided to
take a picture in front of it because it's funny too. But then we got back to twin bridges and
walked around and talked to people and tried contacting some investigators and
less active members. So we went to this
one house and started talking to this guy and he had this super sweet American
flag thing made out of wood and the wood was burned to make the flag. It was super cool so we talked to him for a
bit about that and set up a return appointment with the guy which was awesome.
Then it was dinner time and we ate with some
cool members up there and we had this super good rice and chicken. But that was awesome then we went and tried
going to an appointment that was set up but it fell through. But one good thing came out of it!! I saw this little Chihuahua in a cage that was
bouncing like crazy!! I only got like a
second of it but basically imagine that over and over again. It was pretty funny too. So we tried a few more people and met a guy
who was going to a missionary meeting in Dillon... awkward... good thing it wasn't
my area haha!! But then it was pretty late
and we decided to stay in Butte for the night before zone conference so we
drive up and stay the night with the man the myth and the legend Elder
Patterson!! It was awesome hanging out
with him like old times haha. So we had
fun then went to zone conference the next day. It was awesome!!
We had some really good training on how to be
better and it was super great!! I saw
quite a few missionaries from other areas that I got close to, which is always
a party. So then we had departing
testimonies and Elder Patterson got up because he's going home in October. I'm going to miss that guy!! But he's going to do good things and I've
still got the rest of this transfer!! But
regardless I'll miss the guy. But yeah
then afterward we went and got a prescription for elder C and then went back to
Dillon for dinner and we had it with our ward mission leader and it was sweet! We talked about the work in the area and all
that fun stuff!! Then we went and walked
a ton!! And while we were walking we
talked to as many people as we could!! And we met a new guy who turned into an
investigator and it was really awesome!! I like talking to him a lot. Then we headed home. And the next day we met up with the ZLs for
exchanges with them so I went with a missionary who came out with me and we had
a good time. He showed me some magic
tricks and it was great haha. We had a lesson
with this one guy though... it was so cool you guys!! The spirit was just overwhelmingly strong there
and you could see the kid tear up more than once. It was so awesome!! One of the best lessons... he's super prepared. Then we had dinner and Elder Brown showed the
members he could cut a carrot in half with a card... I held the carrot while he threw the cards... he missed the carrot the first few times. Then we went to splits and split off and
talked to some really awesome people. It
was sweet!! And that about sums up our
day.
Then the next day we went and did service at this
thrift store kind of place. It was fun. We did that for about an hour, hour and a half
then left and it was about lunch time and Elder Brown wanted to go to Taco Johns
so I'm like alright. BAD IDEA!!! I'm never eating there again. I wasn't feeling too good the whole rest of
the day. At least I learned my lesson
though right?? So we went and met back
up and switched back comps. So Elder C and
I are comps till he goes home this Friday. So that's fun. We got back together and then went back to our
area after a meeting with the different leadership in the zone. Then we got back and this is where we did a
ton of walking. We literally walked all
day... I couldn't feel my feet... but it was sweet!! So we walked a ton and talked to a ton of
people... yup that sums up that day haha.
Then on Saturday we literally walked all day. Didn't drive once... it was crazy. We walked around and taught tons of different
people. It was sweet. We taught a cool guy in a wheelchair and that
was awesome. We also taught a lady who
recently had knee surgery or just had something wrong with her knee. I can't remember haha. And we also taught this husband and wife who
are super into music and talked with them and it was pretty sweet. Then we had dinner and after dinner we walked
to an investigators house and taught him the restoration so that was pretty
sweet. Then we went home. Lots of walking haha.
Sunday we went to church and had some good
meetings. We are working really close with the YSA (young single adults) kids
in the ward. So that's awesome. After church we visited a member whose a cop. He's a super cool guy and we ran some ideas
past him that could be somewhat bad... but
that's ok because he said he would probably do them at some point haha. But then we went to a member’s house for a devotional
with all the YSA kids where Elder Bednar spoke. It was super good!! If you guys didn't have a chance to watch it
you should probably check it out. But
that was awesome then a kid started messing with an exercise ball and was
jumping on it. It was crazy. YSA kids are nuts I swear haha. It was super fun being back with people my age
though. Then we went and visited Brother
Staley for a bit and it was super sweet. We talked about the temple and about preach my
gospel. It was super awesome.
Well that's about it for me!! Love y'all!! Take
care!!
Love,
Elder Zeller
750 N Montana St
Dillon, MTDillon, MT
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