Hey Yall!
Man it feels like I was just sitting here a couple hours ago writing yall and now its been a week and so much has happened! We are still super busy with the work. We are helping missionaries, members and others in our area. Our area is still like Utah and it creeps me out the more im here haha. We passed around a meal calendar and 3 of the phone numbers were 801 haha. The weather has been really good actually. Not to humid as in the past couple of weeks.
Me and Elder Johnson:) To start our week off we went shopping on Monday and just kinda relaxed. That was the only time we had all week to do so. Tuesday morning we went to Birmingham with the rest of the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders and had an 8 hour meeting given by President Hanks and his Assistants. It was a great meeting. After the meeting we got to go to one of Elder Johnsons old areas on the way back home and meet a really nice family that fed us dinner. Then Wednesday rolls around. We spent all day Wednesday preparing for Zone Training, a meeting once a month for all the missionaries in our zone. We take the 8 hour meeting we went to the day before and put it into 3 hours. haha so we planned with our Sister Training Leaders, Sister Millard and McDougal and decided how to make it fun, spiritual and make sure everyone learns. We decided what each of us was going to train on and then spent the rest of the day preparing for that. We also got to go to dinner with the Cole family. They feed us every week and are super nice. That's one of the things I love about this ward is that we get fed almost every night! Its a lot different then any other area ive been in.
On Thursday was the big day for Zone Training. The Assistants came down for it and said it was great! We had a commemoration/ party for the 4th of July, we had some missionaries in our zone train everyone else on finding and dealing with objections, we talked about not overcorrecting Mormon doctrine and not studying deep doctrine. We even had a cool slide show at the end that I put together that had pictures of U.S. Soldiers and Missionaries, making the effect that we are soldiers for Heavenly Father and we showed that as Sister Millard played some cool patriotic music on the piano in the background. One of the coolest things from the meeting that I loved was this thought. Repentance= Commitment. When we repent, we are committing ourselves to something. We don't just say sorry and then keep doing it. Commitment in Preach My Gospel is described as stepping onto a path that you cannot deviate from and walking down it. As we are committed to the Savior we are repenting and can use the Atonement He provided for us.
Our zone traning set up, it was very patriotic haha and in the words of my comp, "This is Elder Hall's gay side coming out" hhah
I was able to go on exchanges with one of the Assistants, Elder Matson, we went down to Birmingham and finished the schedule for President Hanks to do interviews with us and we did some other stuff in the mission office. We even got to play basketball with some other missionaries and investigators! That brings us to this weekend. We got to help a non member family move. The Husband of this family, his sister is a member in Georgia, and they had asked if we could help. So the first part of our 4th of July was spent doing service, which turned out to be really fun! We had a few sets of missionaries there helping us. Then we went back to the apt and did some planning for the zone. Then we went to the mall and did a little bit of contacting and the space center had a firework show you could see from the mall. It was fun, im not gonna lie though, I was kinda disappointed in it though. I know that Utah goes all out for their firework shows and maybe that's why but it was good none the less:) I just love seeing fireworks! The next day, Saturday we spent most of the day helping move the family again. We moved part of their stuff into a storage and the other in there apt. Its sad to say this cuz ive moved so many different people on my mission, but I have come to enjoy moving, I guess its just different then the usual stuff we do. So this week we have spent working, planning a lot, and we have partied a little bit here and there! We also have been tracting a lot. But probably the best news is that of our investigator Jason. I think I told yall he was 11, but he is 13. He loves and plays hockey. We are getting him ready to be baptized this Saturday!! So exciting! So ill have to tell yall next week how it goes! He is such a good kid and is excited for this!
Im happy and doing well. I hope that yall can say the same. I know that life is hard, but you just gotta keep smiling and know that everything will work out. Why? Because as long as you are living righteously you know you are in "Good Hands". And no, not Allstate haha your in the big, loving Hands of Heavenly Father. On my mission Ive grown to love and become real acquainted with him and Jesus Christ. As we lean on them they will lift us up! Remember to be Happy. Enjoy life, and make the best of every moment! I love yall so much! Have the best week ever!!
Love Elder Hall:)
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