-Kyron had his first Zone Conference on Wednesday (September 11). He says, " it was so good and President Gelwix is incredible!!! It really focused on working with members. I took a lot of good notes..." He's going to start sending home some copies of his journal so maybe we can start to get some more details.
-At the Zone Conference President Gelwix introduced a new mission plan called The Family Mission Plan. "I feel like this is gonna help us a lot. We all have ward mission plans but we are trying to help our members get family mission plans...that they come up with."
-They went out Thursday evening and found 4 new investigators. There are a couple of families in the complex with the intense security guard. And apparently it's not overkill--there were bullet holes in the walls of one of the homes.
-"Fridays are weekly planning which takes up most of the day and then we had Family Friday Fun Night. (FFFN) FFFN was a total success in our ward. We do FFFN once a month and play games and basketball and eat treats and it is a total casual thing and so we invited a lot of our investagators and we ended up having 11 investigators coming out to that, which is incredible!"
-" We helped move out a family in our ward whose story is incredible. The man lost his job about 8 years ago and could not find another one and so they moved into the mountains and were picking up bullet shells at a fire range for food. He collected enough money to move him and his wife into a motel on stripper row (at 8pm on the dot..there is a street in Fresno where all the hookers come out and wait for their "escorts") His wife found the Gospel and got baptized in January and now they have since found a job and moved into a very modest apartment which is such a upgrade for them. Anyway so we helped them move and taught some more lessons and it was a overall good day."
-"Sunday was way good. We had Elder Smith of the 70 come to observe our ward council. He gave some great advice that I thought i would share. He wants to change the name of ward council to ward rescue. I loved that. (of course I am biased) He says that the church has a big problem with scheduling and talking about non essential things when we should really be focused on rescuing our brothers and sisters and not worrying so much about calender items.I thought that was good advice."
-He has multiple sets of missionaries for their ward (2 sets of Elders and a Senior couple). They have talked about getting another set for their ward.
-He played basketball and loved it.
-Heathers son is progressing. They pushed back his baptism date because he has to go to a regular sacrament meeting twice before he can be baptized and one of the Sundays happens to be Stake Conference. "Her family is slowly but surely getting there...her heavy smoker brother Shane came to FFFN and loved it and so slowly we are working with her family. Her step dad is a less active and came to her baptism and was very emotional so hopefully he will come through. They are just feeling guilty because they smoke and drink and dont feel worthy to come to church."
-They are tracting each day and working in the area. It was opened just before Kyron got there, so there is a lot of work to do.
-Lastly, "Members are so incredible and they are so key in missionary work. I love this work and it is crazy to see the small miracles that happen everyday that change lifes. However hard it might be it is such a good thing. I hope everything is going well at home. I love you all! Stay strong and do some missionary work this week! I love you all!!!
Kyron went to a carwash this week (I guess he must be driving a car some) and said he thought of us! (Does that mean we clean our cars regularly, or need to? ;)
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