Congrats to Jeff on the mission call! Is he speaking English? That sounds like a boss mission though! Kill it Jeff! Sounds like memorial day was awesome! I'm thinking about you guys!
This week was awesome! We had the opportunity to have a zone conference and it was powerful! This was President and Sister Miller's last one. The Zone Conference was focused on PMG and the importance of it. All of the zone leaders in the south of the mission gave a training and we learned a ton! At the end of the conference President got up and bore his testimony and shared some thoughts with us. He actually talked about missionaries who are getting ready to go home, and how we shouldn't worry. He bore a strong testimony about conversion, and how we need to decide to be a disciple of Jesus Christ right now and if we do that, that's what we will become. He said it a lot better than I make it sound, but it was so powerful! It applied so much not only to my mission but to the rest of life. We need to be committed in what we do. Life is completely up to us, we have 100% agency all of the time and we need to put doubt and fear and worry out of our mind and make the decision now to serve the Lord for the rest of our lives. If we doubt and fear what is in the future and we have that in our mind then that's what will happen. President said "You have the iron rod in your hand, now recognize it and do something with it!" I give the same challenge to all of you! At the end of the zone conference we all got in a line and were able to hug President Miller on our way out. Everyone was bawling and it was a spiritual experience.
Other than Zone Conference we were able to teach a lot of lessons to investigators! We have 2 people on baptism date now. Michael Pinon missed his date this Saturday because he was out of town this week with family stuff, but he is back now and we reset his date for June 11! He is so ready and he's pumped to be baptized! We also have another guy on date for the 11th named Mike Nami. His wife is a recent convert who got baptized a couple months ago, and he just never got baptized with them. He made up some excuses for why he didn't get baptized and why he hasn't been baptized yet but we were able to go in there and figure out his real concerns and set him on date! They are from Iran so religion over there is very different than it is over here, and he explained it a little bit to us and it was pretty intense. But we were able to address his concerns and he committed to be baptized on the 11th of June which just happens to be a day after his birthday! We're super excited.
We weren't able to meet with Jay this week but we have an appointment with her tomorrow. We did meet with Norman again though, and we taught him the Restoration. He agreed with all of it but he did admit that he is a little hard headed haha. I can tell he wants it to be true but he just has to make the steps to come to know it for himself. He committed to read and pray about the Book of Mormon so that was good!
It's getting hotter and hotter here and we have been out biking lately. I am loving life, and having fun in the sun. Elder Burnett and I are going golfing today so that's going to be sweet! Anyways, I hope all is well with you guys! Love and miss you. Talk to you next week!
Love Elder Summerhays
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