Hey family!
Well, let's see, this week was intense! I guess we can start with the ZLC (Zone leader Council). In this meeting, we get to set goals for how many baptisms and confirmations we will have as a mission, and also as a zone. We have a mission goal of 500 confirmations this year, and we need 81 this month to hit it. Usually, we around 40 per month. So, we need a ton of miracles this month in order to do it. As a zone, the highest we have gotten since I have been here is 8 confirmations; maybe it was 7.
But Man, God has been preparing the zone for this month. Elder Richards and I sat down and prayed as we decided on our goals, and we went through the areas and felt the Lord tell us that he wanted us to have 29 baptisms and 29 confirmations. That is 7 a week, plus 1 week of 8. It was a very high number, so we kept praying about it and kept having the spirit tell us that this is what he wanted for our zone. We finally came to the conclusion that we better stop asking for the answer when he had already given it to us, or he would get mad. So, then we made the rest of the goals.
Our mission right now has a mission goal for the weekend in white (On the 18 and 19th, the mission has a goal for every companionship to baptize; so that everyone will have a white Christmas). If we as a zone hit the weekend in white, we should be in reach to hit our zone goal. Right now, we are sitting at 4 baptisms for this weekend; and next week we should have 7. With the weekend in white, we should have 11 plus some. Then, the final week with the rest. There is going to be a blizzard down here in the Houston West zone!
Elder Richards and I realized that in order for us to make this goal possible we would have to go back and put some more things on the sacrifice list. And I decided that it was time to get rid of the basketball cards. Man oooooooooohhhhhh man that was a hard one. I went outside and gave them to a kid playing basketball. OOOOOOO man it is worth it though. We are going to see the miracles in the area. We have already ween them. We have had 7 investigators at church three weeks in a row! It is awesome!
On Friday night, we couldn't get a hold of the sisters up in Houston one. They live in the city city, and so we were a little worried for them. 10:30 came around and still nothing, so the A.Ps told us to go and drive over there. It was awesome! We got to go on the freeway and drive through some cool parts of Houston, and see some of the big buildings. Right when we got to the sisters' apartments, they called us and told us there phone is broken and they had been trying to call us for the past 40 mins. So, they were safe and it was fun! And we got to see some of downtown.
Other big news. We got texting! Woohoo. We can text investigators and other missionaries. So it is very exciting. And makes the work a lot easier. You jealous Greg, Jeremy and Tyler? Hahahah. I guess that one of the pros to being a missionary in the states. Right now only the zone leaders and assistants can text. They are testing it out to see how we do. So, hopefully it will spread out to all the missionaries in the mission.
As far as pictures go, sorry Dad, I forgot my camera.... Next week I will bring it. We get to call home for Christmas, and I was wondering what time is a good time for you for the phone calls. As far as Christmas goes, I can't really think of anything that I really need. Maybe some pens and that is about it. I think it would be cool to have a set of scriptures that isn't a quad. But a separate Bible and a separate Book of Mormon. Other than that pictures are always super cool.
Well, I think that is about it for the week. The area is going great and we are hoping for six baptisms this weekend, because two of ours got pushed back a week. So, it is going to be awesome and I hope it all works out!
Love you!
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