Wud up family!
This week was interesting... We were working at the mission
office when President Martin said his final goodbyes to everyone in there and
then he put on a pair of Aviator sunglasses with the BIGGEST SMILE on his face
and hugged us then just simply took off with all their luggage! He acted like
he was going on a vacation or something! How rude!
Anyways though, we have not met/seen Pres. Hall yet, but he
got here yesterday and he's definitely the hot topic around here and is
probably getting swarmed by people as we speak! We get to see him tomorrow for
sure though because he planned a Zone Leader Council, so we're super excited
about that!
Today we planned a Zone activity for our missionaries and it
was a total success! We played flag football, basketball, etc at a park and
BBQ'd! Our zone is so awesome. Pretty much the best zone ever and each of them
are my best friends! It's amazing, and we are so blessed and humbled to be the
ones to represent this awesome zone at Mission meetings. We don't deserve all
these compliments. I'll just give you a sneak peek at what we are dealing with
right now...
For our zone goals for the month of June, we set the
goals a little higher than usual because all our missionaries are starting to
push it! So for instance, we set the goal for investigators with a baptismal
date at 15, and we ended with 16! CHECK! Then, we challenged them to teach an
average of 42 lessons with a member present at the lessons, and we ended with
44! CHECH! Then for the average of investigators attending church we raised it
up to 18, (which was a stretch for this zone), and we ended with 24!! CHHECKK!!
Then lastly, we raised another goal, to get out there and find an average of 12
new investigators a week... and we ended the month with 21! YES, TWENTY-ONE!
Crazy!
Definitely, CHHHHEECKK! Ha-ha this zone is exploding right now and
everyone is going to die when we report this tomorrow how the Valencia zone did
for the month of June! We know it's not all about the numbers. but our
philosophy is that there is always a person behind each number so we're
stoked!
So, that is just A HINT of the joy and satisfaction you
receive with being a zone leader. Yeah, you are responsible for the mistakes.
but you also get to celebrate with each of the missionaries and their
individual successes, which is very rewarding!
Now for the highlight of the week! Right after our District
meeting on Friday, our whole zone got together and we had a surprise! Alex
Boye' and Marvin Perkins came and taught us and sang for us for about 2 hours!
It was amazing! They are best friends and Marvin Perkins lives in our zone and
wanted to talk to all the missionaries in our zone. They are spiritual giants!
Then they had to hurry and leave because Alex Boye' was singing at "Mormon
Dodger Night" where Pres. Uchtdorf threw the first pitch! We felt so
special that they took that time out of their busy lives to come the church to
help inspire us missionaries.
Well this is roughly some of the major points that happened
this week... I've got to get going now, that Zone activity destroyed all our
P-day time today!
PEACE OUT!
Love, Elder Brady
~~~NO REGRETS~~~
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