Great week!

We are flying into May! April went by super fast. We are hoping to have a great month of May here in the Zone and in the mission! Some quick highlights....

We will just go straight to Thursday because Monday-Wednesday were normal work days without anything special that had happened. Well I guess Elder Hanson and I had the opportunity to go work for 2 hours with a companionship that had been struggling to find new investigators. So we went and contacted for 2 hours straight, and we were able to find a couple positive people! I got to work with Elder Roundy, which was fun.

So Thursday we had Mission Training Council. Wow it was fun! Getting to see all the friends and talk about how the mission is doing was fun. President Russell talked about how grateful he is for our service and how much he loves us, and then pumped us up to have a great month of May! He is winding down and this is his last full month in the mission, so we want to send him out with something special. Sister Russell talked about 8 ways to become a better missionary, and the APs talked about how to better commit both contacts and investigators. It was fun. President did say that we are going to have another Consejo before the Changes so it wasn't my last one! Then Elder Hanson and I went to prepare Zone Conference.

Zone Conference was fun. We basically just transmitted the things that we were told in Consejo then tried to animate our missionaries so that May can be even better than April. Mission Work is like a train that keeps running, and it will not stop running. At some point we get on and at one point we get off. But the train will keep running. What we determine is at what velocity and power the train will go. I think that is something important that we can all think of in our lives. That comes from President Eyring by the way.

We baptized Marling on Saturday! She has a really strong testimony so it was really fun to see her get baptized even with all the problems she has had in her family. She is gonna be a dope convert! 

 

Marling

One of my favorite scriptures from the mission and it will be especially important this month is D&C 123:12-17. It is better in Spanish actually but I think it can be applied in all aspects of life. But especially here and now. Love you all! Talk to you on Sunday!

Elder Merrill

D&C 123:12-17

 12 For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—

 13 Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—

 14 These should then be attended to with great earnestness.

 15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.

 16 You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.

 17 Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.