Malo Soifua!!!
Today on the Elder Hill Show:
* Zone Conference was absolutely amazing (as usual)
* RIP Elder Steele. We dropped him off at the airport so he could fly home (#roadtrip)
* Knocking is way more exciting when people threaten to call the cops on us haha
* Speaking in church is always fun, especially when we're asked two days before
* Connecticut is real pretty (see pictures below)
Tuesday
was Zone Conference, and it was at the New Rochelle chapel, so we got
to drive for almost an hour and a half to get there. One of the main
focuses of this conference was Preach My Gospel. We as a mission haven't
focused much on it or used it much recently, and Pres Holmes is here to
change that. His goal is for all of us to "know if backwards and
forwards, and forwards and backwards". He challenged all of us to have
every scripture reference memorized before we go home from our
respective missions, and I think that will be a huge help to all of us.
He and Sis Holmes bore powerful testimony of PMG as a necessary tool for
missionaries to use (they compared it to a playbook or game film for an
NFL team). Overall a fire meeting, and I loved it.
Thursday
morning, we got up a little earlier than usual so we could take Elder
Steele to the airport. It was all around about four hours of driving,
which was just all kinds of fun. We dropped him at the terminal and
turned around to come back. Elder Lee and I got about 30 minutes at home
to eat and do a few things before hitting the road again to go to
district council. We ended up driving a lot today, and it was not super
fun, but it is what it is sometimes.
We
spend around an hour or more every night knocking doors in random
neighborhoods in our area. On Saturday night we pulled up to a street
and began tracting. As I knocked on one door, a lady across the street
opened her door and told us not to knock there. Elder Lee and I paused
and looked at each other, and I moved to just knock again (we thought
she had left, but she was still staring at us from across the road). The
lady yelled at us again, telling us to leave again. I don't remember
her exact words, but they carried a veiled threat, and I wasn't too
eager to try anything funny, so we walked down the steps and down the
sidewalk to the next house. It wasn't scary having someone yelling at
me, but it was kinda weird and uncomfortable just having her stare at us
as we kept walking door to door. The joys of missionary work just
compound.
We spent a
little bit of time this week going to some pretty places to take some
pictures for Facebook. We found some really cool places next to
reservoirs and forests. Lots of cool places, and lots of cool pictures
to show for it!
Mafaufauga
faaleagaga: I studied discipline a bit this week, and learned some
interesting stuff. It was weird how much discipline relates to faith,
which I studied last transfer. Obedience is when we follow the
rules/laws/commandments we've been given. Diligence is when we not only
WANT to do it (and actually care about doing it), but we also do it
consistently and ungrudgingly. Basically, diligence is obedience laced
with faith. Figure that one out 😂.
Alofa tele lava atu ia outou,
Elder Hill
Ata:
- I found my son at Zone Conference
- Lots of green here in CT
- "The Process" (Elder Lee, Steele and I) (aka the David Delgado fan club)
- Elder Lee and me (RIP Elder Steele)
- Some suuuper nice houses we found, as well as a straight-up abandoned house
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