This week was great! All of the Zone Leaders met at the Moore stake-center for our meeting with Elder Bowen, of the Seventy. The meeting was very motivating. He expects a lot out of us.
Elder Bowen came the next day to inspect our CLEAN apartment. President Taylor came the morning before and joined us for companionship study. It was great! He wanted to inspect our apartment before Elder Bowen came. He told us that Elder Bowen was going to check everything, even our planners and also the area-book. But when Elder Bowen came the next morning with his wife and President and Sister Taylor, they just looked in our closets and cabinets and bathrooms and then talked to us. It was awesome! He asked us some questions and he taught us about the importance of keeping our apartment like the temple; in good, clean condition so that is can be a place of revelation during planning and studies. A place that that keeps us apart from the world. It was cool. Then he gave us each a hug, but it wasn't like any usual man-hug. It was like he was my Mom or my Grandma. He hugged us for a long time. The spirit in our apartment was SOOOO strong and you could feel the love radiating off of him.
The next day we went to Norman where we had Mission Tour Conference. It was sweet. Elder Bowen gave a 4 hour training without any notes. All he had was his ipad (scriptures). He was very bold with all of the missionaries. He was not afraid to call anyone out. That is exactly what our mission needed. There are lots of missionaries who are starting to slack off. Mostly because there are so many young missionaries in our mission. And there are going to be way more young missionaries added soon. The zone leaders are responsible for the growth of each missionary in the zone. We have to hold them accountable to help them all rise to their potential, to become leaders so that they can train or be a district leader or replace us. I had an interview with President Taylor this morning and that is pretty much all that we talked about.
We had a baptism this Sunday!! His name is Andy. He is a funny guy. He just recently started dating this girl like 5 days ago and she sat in on a lesson with Andy and also came to his baptism. Now SHE wants to be baptized!!!! We have been focusing on working through peoples "networks." The people who are interested in the gospel have friends. (A lot more friends than we have.) So we work through the people who have connections. like Andy and his Girlfriend. We just need to be sure that she is converting for the right reasons.
I'm excited for Thanksgiving. We will be playing in a Turkey-bowl with President and Sister Taylor, their sons and some other nearby missionaries. It will be fun.
We are Improving a lot in working with the ward and the branch. Good things are happening!
Love Elder Shumway
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