Zone Conference + a healthy dose of miracles

This week was awesome! We've been doing plenty of finding, and now we're finding and teaching a bunch of positive, prepared people. The work of the last transfer and a half has started to pay off, and we're building up a good base of investigators here. One day we were out finding and we tracted into a lady who appears to be active in her own church, but who said she was interested in reading a Book of Mormon and who asked us if we could set up the appointment so that her husband could also be there. She's got three kids and is open to hear more. She also asked us for our phone number, just in case, and gave us hers before we suggested it. And when we asked for a referral, she ran back inside and pulled out a list of people that lived nearby that went to the same church as she does. 9 referrals on the spot! None of them so far have turned out to be positive, but we're sure excited for our appointment with her and her husband. Unfortunately it has to be in a week and a half from now, but we're pretty sure that she'll read some of the Book of Mormon (she asked us if there was anything specific she needed to read). We had some other great lessons with single, middle-aged Dutch men, a segment of the population that most people don't expect to teach. We've got a ton of support from our branch and we're really excited about these potentials/investigators.

The other miracle of the week was zone conference. (BTW, thanks for all the letters! I got 9 in this batch and was grateful for them all! I love zone conference and I learned so so much from this one. One of the things they really focused on was that we need to pray and fast and ask for miracles, and expect them to happen. Sometimes success comes in lessons to be learned rather than in new investigators or baptismal dates, but the success always comes as we ask for it.

The gospel is true and it is such a blessing to be able to share it with others! Enjoy General Conference this week, I sure will!