We're still all talking about the council Elder Hamula left with the mission. One point his wife stressed to us were the area books. My thoughts are the conversion of every soul goes through a life long process, and the spirit manages that conversion. In the area books we have ( 1 nephi 9) "an account engraven of the ministry of my people." We record them and contact and teach them as it pertains to the Lord's planned preogression for them. (1 Nephi 9) 5 Wherefore, the Lord hath commanded me to make these plates for a wise purpose in him, which purpose I know not. It has brought me a lot of success to organize my contact with the people who have worked with missionaries since the ward started in 2009.
In light of that I trained in district meeting on the use of the area book. I bought everyone muffins to lighten the blow because no one likes paper work, and we'll follow up this wednesday to see if anyone is taking advantage of that resource. Sisters Bills and Leiter i'm sure are all over it, Elders Diaz and Wright may require more prodding.
One of my Zone Leaders is Elder Ware, who trained me. When I see him he brings up all of the dumb things I did with him my first transfer. Dang it - I can't get away from that.
I went on an exchange with Elder Wright this week. I was Emergency Transfered here in part for Elder Dewitt and in part for him, for essentially the same underlying reason. The 2 are really good friends and kind of feed off eachother. Elder Wright is from Provo, Utah. He went home for 6 months on a medical release and I figure that is a hard transition to make back into the field. He's been back about 4 months now. We had a really productive day. Their area is booming with work. The Shoal Creek ward works largely with African Immigrants who all seem to know to move from Liberia to Austin, Texas. I think Elder Diaz is starting his 4th transfer here and I think he's baptized some 25 people there. There was a senior couple who just went home who was called to teach all of these people how to read. They had a cool mission.
I don't know if I already said Elder Dewitt has gone home twice for medical purposes, and now we just have the occasional doctors visit while he's out. He is planning on going back to the army after his mission and wants to fly helicopters.
Brother Furst in our ward manages the royalties from earth to outerspace for some big names. So I guess He's rubbed shoulders working for JZ and lady Gaga and some MLB teams and the like. He and his wife paid for us to go out to some great barbecue this week. No complaints here. It was super good.
We started working a little more closely with the priests in this ward. They all made the commitment to become more converted before their missions so we offered to call them throughout the week to see what they're reading in their scriptures and to suggest other places they can read to learn more, and discuss with them how it applies to their lives. They're crazy. We brought them a huge bowl of candy that we'd procured as people dumped off their extra halloween candy on us during the week. I'm afraid it destroyed the focus of the lesson.
In reading the words of the prophet spencer w kimball he talked about the crucial moments and minutes we should spend meditating and listening after talking openly with God. He may give us additional ideas or simply confirming feelings for having correctly chosen to discuss our trials and successes with him. He will always listen. He knows and love you.
Thanks for all of your support!
I love you!
Stay Salty!
Elder Tyler Meidell
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