This last week has been pretty great! A lot has happened to talk about, so I'll do my best to include as much as I can without making this super long. A couple of big things that happened this week, including having our Combined District Meeting for the month of September, we had another ward party, I got to go back to Alpine for a baptism, and we had a regional broadcast on Sunday! Like I said, we've been busy!
The combined district meeting was pretty great, I gave a training on how the commitments we give in lessons relate to conversion. The whole meeting was a blast! A few days before a lady that was closing down a pool in our area for the winter gave us a ton of candy, so we brought it all with us and shared with the rest of the zone. The next day we had a ward block party. It was in one of the richer wards in our area, so it was pretty nice! They had bounce houses for the little kids, a dunk tank, live music from one of the member's band, and catered barbecue. It was pretty awesome!
On Saturday I got to travel back to Alpine for the baptism of Troy, a guy I had the opportunity to begin teaching about two months ago in Alpine. It was an awesome baptism! Troy has been in an addiction recovery lodge for a while, and it was great to see that he is still making progress and was able to enter in to the waters of baptism! His father, who is not a member, was able to come all the way from Kentucky to attend! It was a great event, I love baptisms!
On Sunday, instead of having our regular meetings, all the stakes in our mission, the Provo mission, and the St. George mission watched a regional broadcast. There were at least 250 Stakes watching (that's a lot of people!). Elder Stevenson from the quorum of the twelve apostles was the presiding authority. He gave an awesome talk at the end as well. He talked about how humility, obedience, and virtue were all prerequisite to having the spirit with us. I'll definitely take his advice!
Also! I almost forgot, we got to go to the temple this morning as a district, since we're so far south in the mission, our mission president told our zone we could go to the Provo temple this time around. It was a great trip!
I hope everyone has a great week! You all are amazing!
Elder Orchard
At the temple this morning
Our candy stash
These fires don't help the air quality
Our zone after our Combined District Meeting
Our zone after our Combined District Meeting
Troy's Baptism
A cool looking sunset
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