BoM it up!

Ok business first. Yes mom I did fix my schedule 

May 9, 2014

So this last week has been amazing! We've been pumping out a new zone motto: Rally Up! We ask the missionaries every day what their up is: charge up, wake up, tract up. power up, spirit up, etc. It's awesome. As a part of it we've done a district vs district challenge to see which district could pas out the most Book of Mormons (BoMs) in 5 days. They set their goals high for 100 and 101. They worked their butts off. We more than doubled our tracting hours in a single week in the zone going from 40 to 94. We passed out 226 copies in 5 days in one stake!!!!!!!! That's unheard of! we had a pair of sisters that passed out 31 BoMs in 3 hours yesterday! And all of the other stats went up too. I couldn't believe it myself! Holy cow! This next week we're going to be doing another challenge to see who can set up the most return appointments with non-members. We're going to be doing a series of challenges to build up the work and help them to feel pumped about being a missionary. So far so good! We've seen some serious miracles as a result of it. One set of sisters stopped a house fire by calling 911 because they were trying to pass out more BoMs. It's been crazy fun.

So we also had an awesome lesson with the Berniers. I haven't felt the spirit like that in a lesson since I was teaching C. or D. It went amazing. They had questions about what happens to aborted babies, and where Jesus went for the three days he was buried. It was amazing. At the end we asked them if they would be willing to be baptized. The wife was quick to say yes, the husband was more contemplative, but he said that he would have to pray about it. We asked him how he felt about the Atonement of Christ and he bore some of the most amazing and spiritual testimony that I have ever heard. While we were teaching about the spirit world right after the wife was crying. It was amazing to see people catching on to what this gospel could potentially mean to complete the picture of what they already believe. I love it. I feel so thankful to simply be the messenger that God can speak to them through.

I'm not sure what else really happened this week. Most of it was spent giving out supplies to all of the missionaries so that they were fully stocked, and then teaching the most we ever had since I've been here to the area.

We also asked a member to create the photo at the bottom to be our lock screens on the whole zone's iPads. It's so cool to see them all together.

I love you all, and I love this gospel more than anything. I am so thankful for how a mission has changed my weaknesses into strengths. How I could take the things that I didn't like about myself from before the mission and work on them day by day in an atmosphere that is conducive to feeling the spirit and coming closer to God. I love being here with these missionaries. I love serving God, because I feel of his love every day now. I have a testimony that God takes us through the high points and the low points of our lives and that he always has a plan for us to become something better than we could ever try to make of ourselves. I need that help. I yearn for that help. I am thankful for that grace that comes through Christ's Atonement.