Hey all. Hope everyone is doing very well. Didnt get to email on Monday this week due to MLK, so the library was closed. Instead we are doin it today, Wednesday. Which is alright. Next week it may be the same Im not quite sure how its going to be working out. I may be getting transfered and it will be happening either Monday or Tuesday. I'll find out this weekend, on Saturday the 23rd.
So this last week was pretty good. We got a lot of teaching in which was exciting. No new investigators yet unfortunately, we havent found anyone new in a while. Mostly because we've been busy enough to not have to tract at all, but at the same times the members in this ward arent doing anything to help us find. Which happens to be the most effective way hands down to find new people. Thats why the general authorities have put so much emphasis on member missionary work. It really is super important. Buuut its ok, we're still teaching a lot. The thing is though, a lot of the investigators we currently have are seeming to be more long term investigators, they arent "ready" to commit to much. So we're tryin to get em to budge a bit.
Hopefully something will happen soon.
Yesterday we had zone conference in Reno, so that was really good. Only the second time I actually got to be in a city so far! It was actually really wierd. After being in a really tiny town for 18 weeks the city is way different. Everything is so wide open and underdeveloped here in Yerington.
It was pretty fun. I love the city, dont ever plan on living in a small town. The conference was really good though, and I had the opportunity of seeing 2 of the elders from my mtc district. So that was fun. The topic of the conference was planning and preparing. They talked a lot about the recent devestations that hit Haiti. Gave a lot of pretty scary facts about whats going on over there. 80-90% of the buildings turned to rubble... thats pretty bad. Its unfortunate that anyone has to live in such an impoverished place. But naturally the LDS are some of the first on the scene to provide aid. They also told us that not even one of the LDS church buildings were damaged, they all still stand firm and are now converted into medical facilities and others are housing the Hatians that are now homeless. 80-90% of the buildings and not one of our church buildings were damaged... Thats amazing. Another testimony that the church is true. Also none of the missionaries that were serving in Haiti lost their lives. Thats pretty amazing too. Just like when Hurricane Catrina hit New Orleans. I heard that because of our Prophets and apostles and thanks to revelation, they pulled the missionaries out of New Orleans before the Hurricane even hit. Sorry all of that is just amazing to me.
Well overall it was a great week. I love this area and there are still things I would like to see happen but at the same time I am ready for some change. So whatever happens this weekend, I will be content.
Hope you all have a good week, and keep praying for those in Haiti.
Love
Elder Lowder
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