Hey Family!
All the pictures of St. George look awesome! I love that place! I remember that hike that we always go on when we go down there, was it the same one? Whatever it is it looks like a sweet hike! There is a petroglyph national monument right outside the border of our area. We live right next to a mesa and right next to some volcano's but I haven't visited them yet. Mom I thought it was funny that you said "Doh!" Haha everyone in our zone is starting to say that because I say it too!
This week was really busy! We had MLC on Thursday and they talked a lot about helping investigators and missionaries make and keep commitments! We also came out with a new thing. So every year our mission sets a baptism goal, and this year it was 850+ baptisms. So in our mission right now we are a little bit behind in reaching that goal for the year so in MLC one of the zone leaders brought it up, and we discussed together as zone leaders what a good idea would be to get everyone kinda remotivated to reach the goal. We all decided on setting quarterly goals for baptisms! So every three months we will have a baptism goal for each of our zones and at the end of the three months we will set a new one so that we can stay focused and motivated on the goal! I thought it was a great idea and after we presented it and discussed it with the zone in zone training, all of the missionaries are pumped to reach the new goal that we have set! We also had SMCM this week which is a meeting where the Stake Presidency and the high councilors for each ward and us all meet and talk about the missionary work that is going on in the stake! It's a pretty sweet meeting! We get to work a lot with the stake high councilor over missionary work, which I think is pretty cool because that's dad's calling isn't it? Does it work the same in Utah? If it does then that means that I am going to one of the same meetings that dad goes to which is sweet!
As for our area things are going pretty well! We found a new investigator this week. He is the boyfriend of an older lady in our ward and he lives in Florida! It was pretty cool because I could relate to him cause Granny and Grandpa served there! Surprisingly he had never been to Rita's, and I told him he's gotta go there! He is only going to be here until Saturday which kinda stinks... But we are teaching him this week and we are going to help him understand more about our beliefs so that either some missionaries in Florida can find him or that if he ever comes back hopefully we can teach him again! We had a lot of appointments cancel this last week but luckily they moved to this week so we are excited to be able to teach more of our investigators!
Anyways, I love and miss all of you and I hope all is well at home! Keep doing what's right! I am loving the mission, and transfers are next week by the way, so pday will probably be on Monday! Talk to you all later!
Love Elder Summerhays
Knocking on doors
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