Study the Scriptures

I've been learning a lot doctrinal wise as I've truly studied the scriptures and not just read them. It's been great because it's helped me realize I still have a long way to go, and a lot of things I still need to do.

Things here are going great though. As a zone we have 36 people on date, 31 of those are on date to be baptized in January. So we should be able to pass the record the zone has for baptisms in a month, which is 23. If all goes well we'll have 38 baptisms. That's what we're hoping for. The baptism wasn't able to go through last week, but this week we are having one for sure. It's of an 11-year-old girl. She's been so solid. We were talking with a member and they told us somebody they visit teach has kids and thinks it's time for them to get baptized. So we went over and they'd been going to church for a few weeks and since then we've been working with her. Then this Sunday we went out to Randolph, which is another area we cover that's about a hour and 15 minutes away. We visited a Peruvian that works on one of the farms. And we taught him last week, so we were following up with him. And he told us that he wants to go to church now and that he wants the missionaries to talk to his wife and children in Peru. They live a few blocks away from a church there. He went out and bought a copy of the Book of Mormon in Peru and read half of it and believes it's from God. So now we're working with him to get him baptized. We also visited another family that we got a referral from. It was for a less active family with two unbaptized kids. So we went by and talked with some of the kids, but the dad wasn't there so we said we'd return in a hour. So we went and taught the Peruvian, and came back. The dad was bringing in groceries. So we went in and talked with them all. And as we were talking to them the dad said "I guess you're here to talk to Chloe" and we didn't really know or not. So they tell us she's been talking to the bishop to find out more about the church so she can get baptized. It's been amazing to see the people the Lord has prepared for us. The zone conference went well yesterday. We gave a training on how to develop social skills and communicate better with the investigators, and how to address their problems. It went well. It was good. Learned a few things. It was the zone conference that Sister Winn told the missionary he couldn't earn an award postpartum.