This week, i remembered my planner so i should have more details about everything. on Tues. we had Zone Conference and it was talking about a lot of the things that i have been struggling with personally and with the area. it was mostly focused on finding people and how it is essential to missionary work cause if you don't find you don't teach and we have been having trouble trying to find people to teach. Then Sister Bunker gave a workshop on how we need to "be the message" and how we need to look the part as servants of our Heavenly Father and represent Jesus Christ. but to also be excited about being a missionary and wanting to help people, and the week before i was struggling with if i really wanted to be out here and if i liked being a missionary. but she was talking about how we should "paint on a smile, and then the excitement will come" i found it very difficult to do that. but this past week has been a building week of my faith that Christ can help me through every challenge and that i don't have to worry about time or home or anything. so now i am more excited to be out there and find those elect people who need the gospel. even though this week was not the best week of teaching and we did not stop and we pushed through those tough moments and moved forward. the rest of the week was like that every day we only taught maybe 2 or 3 lessons but it was worth it because every lesson help that person come closer to baptism or to coming back to church. but this one family that we are kind of teaching has just been so excited to meet with us but never have time so we left them with a Plan of salvation pamphlet and the next time we went around the mother answered the door. we went around to set up a time to come by and so i asked her if she read it and she did! which is a first for them, and she was so excited about it she said it opened a new light into her life and that it opened her eyes to how much variety we have. i was so excited and we are going to teach them this Saturday cause that is the only time they have off since they both work at the prison. so the area here has got amazing people, we just need to find them and then teach them and those that we have already found. there has not been much excitement but this week we are having a all mission conference and Neil A. Anderson might be coming to talk to us along with multiple people from the Seventy, so i am really excited for that. i hope this letter has been better than the others, pictures will come when i have get a new memory card and i send home my other be patient with me i am a little slow with trying to keep everyone in on what happens out here. i love you all, it was amazing to talk with you mom and dad yesterday. i love being a missionary. talk to you next week.
Andrew