Zone Conference and miracles!

Hello all,

Well the week before this one was quite the rough week. We had an extremely hard time seeing anyone, especially our investigators. Then we had Zone Conference! There with us we had Elder Baxter of the Seventy (I believe he gave a talk in april's GC about single mothers?). It was pretty amazing to have a General Authority be there to instruct us. Instruct/chastise ;) No he really did hit us pretty hard with a lot of things, which is great. It pushes us to be better. Between him and President and Sister Lewis, we had 16 commitments. It began to be very overwhelming, and we have a lot to improve on, but it is great because when we are satisfied with where we are, we will always fail to hit our potential. I feel like even though we were working hard, we were settling for too less and not bringing forth effort enough to have the miracles that we needed. Faith without works is dead! We have faith, but we were not manifesting that faith enough in our works. So Elder Idso and myself have been recommitted to being better, and we have seen amazing blessings from that. A real blessing of life is the ability to try and improve each day. 

One of the things that we have seen great things from has been opening our mouths, and declaring the gospel freely. We received a challenge from Elder Ballard to this mission challenging us to contact 10 people, appropriately, each day and to discuss the gospel with them. This is very hard up here in the Hills, but we have been doing our best, talking to everyone and trying to bring the gospel to everyone we see. The whole zone has seen incredible blessings. Miracles have happened as we have simply done better in finding those that God puts into our paths! With talking to everyone comes a lot more rejection as well, but it just strengthens our resolve to keep doing it. Somehow ;) But we have just seen great blessings from it and it is so awesome to see progression. 

We are still struggling in getting people to church and seeing our investigators at all really. But our vision is raised and we are working harder than ever to find those the Lord has prepared. I know that this is the church of Jesus Christ. He is hastening His work and the truth of God is filling the earth! I am so blessed to be a part of it. 

I hope you all have an amazing Thanksgiving. I am thankful for each of you and your love and support. Stay strong and safe! Love,

Elder Stone