This week was also Zone Conference! President Wong is as funny as ever, and in a nutshell he taught us how to help investigators progress toward baptism. He also taught us about more finding tactics, called "Intense Finding" which was really fun to put into practice this week. Basically you go out with a specific group of people to find and come up with specific object lessons or things we can use to engage people when we are finding! It is way better than the standard "Hey how are you? We are the missionaries... blah blah blah". So far it has been working pretty well!
But we have been working with a guy named B. He is progressing really well. Remember when I told you about Sister K giving up coffee before we even got there to teach the Word of Wisdom? Yeah I pretty much expect Word of Wisdom miracles with investigators now. This week we went in to teach that to B, and he was willing to live it. Then Elder Layer asked him to give us anything that might tempt him. So he goes into his kitchen, pours all his tea bags into a Walmart sack and grabs his huge coffee can and just gives them to us! Even better, he walks into his kitchen and says "I might as well give you guys this too" and he pours out his coffee pot and unplugs the whole thing and gives it to us! It was awesome. I've always heard stories of missionaries doing that and now it happened!
In other news, another investigator owns an orchard way outside of town. We went to his house on Saturday so we could figure out how long it takes to walk to the bus stop so we could get him to church (it's a long story). And he gave us a huge box of apples and his juicer! So we took our lunch time and made like 2 gallons of fresh apple juice. It's pretty sour and tastes like the green Jolly Ranchers. Super good.
This week was awesome. We have been preparing for conference and studying President Monson's talks from past conferences. It's pretty good, we are excited.
Sounds like your week was pretty good! We have never been able to do anything at all with sisters. The most is calling them for missionary stuff and seeing them at meetings and what not. Most of that is the same, except now we can have an activity on P day once a month with them.
Take care! I love you all!
Elder Clark
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