Well not a whole lot happened this week. It was kind of slow. But it was good none the less.
Updates on Johnathan. His mom doesn't really talk to him at all. And doesn't respond to anything via phone. So we still haven't got an OK for baptism. But he is still doing very well.
Adonis. I think I mentioned him last week. The really excited guy. He is way cool. He is pretty hard on himself because of his past. So far he has also had a pretty tough life, with friends and family. We met with him twice this week and both times we went pretty deeply into repentance and shared some good videos with him. About forgiving himself and others. They are on mormonchannel.org if you want to check them out. "The Savior Wants to Forgive," and "Step 6" in the 12 steps to change program. We gave him the 12 steps to change booklet and he is starting that as well. He truly has a desire and its awesome to see that.
This week we had Zone Training Meeting. It went super good! For our training we focused on setting goals. We looked over our numbers for our zone and saw that they have been flat. Which is good because we aren't going down. But we aren't going up. So we talked and came to the agreement that when we set goals for our Key Indicators (weekly and daily numbers that we set for our area) they often rely on the agency of our investigators and other non-members and members. There isn't a whole lot that we can individually do to achieve them except work hard. Which is discouraging when we don't hit them. So we came to the conclusion that we need to do things that are going to stretch ourselves. By finding the things we each struggle with individually. And not just service concerns. Like waking up on time. Or not studying. Or not talking to everyone. We wanted the root problem that caused us to do those things. Examples: homesickness, thinking about girls/guys too much, not getting along with your companion. And even those things can be caused by other things. But we wanted to find the root problem. We saw great success come from it.
Anyways my laptop is about to die so I gotta get running. But I love you all and glad to hear everything is going great!
Elder Miles
Zone Training Meeting
