This
week was definitely different than past weeks and it was so much fun. We went
on 5 different zone leader exchanges this week, so needless to say we have been
driving around a ton and were super busy, but it has been so much fun! I love
exchanges so much. We get to do a full day of missionary work and we get to go
out with some of our best friends and be companions with them for a day. A
bunch of cool things happened.
On Thursday I got to go with Elder Anderson who
is one of the St Louis zone leaders who lives super close to us and we hang out
all the time. I loved spending the day with him and the coolest thing that
happened. Me and Elder Wunderli went to visit a less active family a few weeks
ago and just stopped by to say hi. They set up a return appointment with the
zone leaders and I was there when we went back. When we got there the member
just said hey let me go grab my neighbor real fast. His neighbor came over and
met us and shook our hand and then sat down and listened to the first lesson
and we set up a return appointment. It was so easy!!! This guy just brought
over his next door neighbor. I wish more people had that kind of faith.
The changes that are taking
place in the mission are so cool. President Morgan told us about a meeting that
he had yesterday. It was his coordination meeting with our local area seventy
and the 8 stake presidents in our area. They told him that Elder Perry was
going to be broadcast in and he assumed that a bunch of different coordination
meetings would be watching Elder Perry give a training. That wasn’t what
happened at all. Elder Perry, Elder Ballard, Elder Scott, and one of the
presidents of the seventy were skyped into their meeting personally. I think it
meant a lot to have a 15 person meeting with 3 apostles in it. The stake
presidents are really getting hit hard to do missionary work. It all starts
with them and its starting to trickle its way down. It’s really cool to see. I
know I say this every week but I am so thankful to be a missionary right now
and get to see all of these amazing changes.
We have a mixture of stuff
coming up this week. It will be nice to get some different things in. We have
some interviews and a couple of exchanges and MLC. This will be somewhere
around my 15th MLC and by far our most important one cause we are on a downhill
slope right now that seriously needs to get fixed if we’re going to get our
goal of 450 for the year. We need some miracles to start happening right away.
But I know that if everyone will step up and work their hardest that we can
reach our goal no problem. I love this work and know that what we are doing is
blessing the lives of people all over the world.
-Elder Banks
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