Week of Learning and Teaching! November 19, 2017

 We are Learners, Teachers and Volunteers!

This week was a remarkable week of learning and teaching.

We had the opportunity of learning from one of the General Authorities, Elder Timothy J. Dykes and his wife and our Mission President, President Stratford and Sister Stratford.  

They taught us at an incredible zone conference and we came away spiritually fed.  

Sister Stratford taught us about the Light of Christ and not knowing beforehand what we should do, but act on first promptings. 

President Stratford taught us about  TREASURING UP AND BEING QUICK TO OBSERVE. Sister Dykes said that each meeting needs to be a revelatory experience for us! 

Elder Dykes taught for two hours and it was wonderful!  He asked us a powerful question: When people see you do they see the Savior? WOW! As missionaries and consecrated teachers  must become a new creation and to think and act differently. We stressed that we must use the power of  the Book of Mormon in all of our teachings! 

We need to simplify, clarify, verify and testify!  

It was wonderful!

We also have been teachers this week!

This week we:

Taught Priesthood

Taught Young Women

Taught Relief Society

Both spoke in church

Taught institute

Taught Personal Finance

Helped teach a lady to prepare to take the discussions

And we love all of it!

And in our volunteer work, we helped with the registration committee gathering the forms for the big Christmas event in town, called the Miracle on Main Street.  It is a fun Christmas celebration and parade that is held in the evening with lots of lights on the floats and trucks, and Mr. and Mrs. Santa coming last on the big fire engine! It was very festive! All of the singing groups, clubs, businesses, churches (not us) loaded their employees or families onto something that moved and rolled down the street handing out candy.  We estimated about 500 people were in the parade! For a town of 11,000 that is quite a big event. 

We love our mission!!