That time we had zone conference with Elder Kopischke

This week was great! Especially Zone Conference with Elder Kopischke of the Seventy.

This week we tried contacting a lot of investigators who dropped off the face of the earth and we had pretty decent success. So good news!!

Back to Zone Conference

Wow, it started with opening remarks from Sister Schofield, straight into a training about trying to find and get to spiritual light from President Schofield, then Elder Kopischke came up and just trained us about everything that Pres and Sister Schofield talked about and more, it was crazy awesome, I can't even explain how he moved from point to point but it was amazing. Some things he taught us were

1. To use the Book of Mormon effectively, Showing scriptures and using the introduction and title page to touch their hearts to the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and then testify.

2. To go on a journey WITH the investigators, don't just point them where they are supposed to go, go with them! Always honor their agency, give them a choice, there are three ways we can help people come unto Christ, with a challenge, with an invitation, or with an experiment. Which one honors their agency the most? An Experiment, tell them the blessings and the things they will receive from doing righteous actions and then let them try and see for themself. Alma 32:27-28. But it is important to go with them to find spiritual light and joy.

3. Faith is a cycle, this is also from Alma 32:27-28, also from the Brother of Jared's experience, in order to see blessings for our faith it requires work! because faith without works is dead! When we have a desire, we give place for the action, and we don't cast out the idea then the Lord will cause it to swell and enlarge within us until it becomes delicious to us and results in an increase of faith. In other words, its not enough to say you've got faith, faith requires action, Elder Holland said, and I know I'm butchering this but oh well, "True conversion and faithfulness in the church, full activity in the church and that is not supposed to be easy, its supposed to require something of our soul." But at a certain point it does become easy because of the faith which you have built, when you see the blessings that the Lord has given you because of the faith you have shown Him it is easy to make the right decisions. 

So be faithful! Be hard workers! Don't give up when something becomes hard! That something everyone needs to work on! Myself especially! But I know that as we try to use our faith we will see miracles!

Love you all!