Well this week was crazy. Just crazy. So much happened in such
little time it was crazy. Crazy in a good way. Like a fun roller coaster kind of
crazy. I am glad that I get to email today! I almost thought I wouldn't get to.
But here I am! So we had a couple super spiritual feast moments this week! The
first was zone conference. The South zone conference is always the biggest in
the mission. It has 4 zones and about 70 missionaries. It was awesome. The
spirit was super strong and we learned a ton. Elder Prigmore and I gave a 15
minute training. We talked about retaining recent converts by helping them get
to the temple. It went really well! The spirit helped us a ton and we got a ton
of good reviews from the missionaries. I got the crowd to laugh a little so we
won them over from the start. It is interesting talking to a group of 70
missionaries. I enjoyed listening to other people train us as well. At the end
of zone conference President Guffey gave me a hug and told me "You are about to
take on a heavy load." If that isn't the biggest cliff hanger I don't know what
is. I am pretty sure he is talking about this week. Elder Prigmore is up in ABQ
right now since he goes home tomorrow. I am hanging with another set of ZLs for
the day and will get a temp companion for the rest of the week until transfers
next week. My temp companion is Elder Dial. He has been out a little under 3
months. What that means is for this week I will be the only Zone Leader in the
zone. I will be over 8 companionships of missionaries alone for a week. It will
be crazy but I am pretty excited. The other super spiritual moment was yesterday
when we had MLC. First of all I love going to MLC as a south zone leader. We get
to ride up for 5 hours with another set of zone leaders and it is a ton of fun.
We share a lot of laughs and share good ideas for how to help our area improve
and how to train the zone. Yesterday Elder Torres of the area 70 came and
trained us. It was super powerful. He just recently came back from being a
mission president and he love missionary work. He gave us a ton of info and
ideas on what we could do to help the mission. It was so cool. Since MLC was
yesterday that means zone training is this Friday. The whole zone gets together
and the zone leaders train them. I will be alone for that. I could use some
prayers! I need all the help I can get!! We have been really blessed in this
area. We have a baptism coming up this Saturday and one the following Saturday.
This Saturday is a 9 year old girl named Erinne. Her whole family are members
and are returning to activity. The family asked me to baptize her so that will
be a super sweet experience for me. I am excited for it. The following week is
Amanda's baptism. We have been teaching her for a while now and she is doing
awesome. She is going to get married and baptized on the same day! It will be
awesome! We are teaching a lot and doing our best to find more people to teach!
This week should be a really good one! I love you all!!
Elder Carruth