Hey, thanks for your letters. The temple was great, as usual, and so was zone conference. I've really noticed an amazing change in Elder Garrison recently, particularly at zone conference. When he met up with some of his old MTC district elders he totally regressed to the way he was at the beginning of the transfer and it allowed me to see how much different he is when its just him and I. So that's a two-edged sword, its good and its bad, good because he's totally improved in the arena where we do most of our work, but it's bad because he's not firm in that...yet.
Zone conference was great. President Hutchings just went to a seminar for the Eastern United States missions and we were the second highest baptizing mission in the area. They were commissioned while they were there by Elder Perry that every mission in the Eastern United States needs to have every companionship baptizing every month! Luckily that was already our goal for this transfer. That commission was then followed by the frightening words from a prophet, "It's very urgent that we baptize more people." Interesting thought.
Things are going a lot better. Our area is doing incredible. Tons of new investigators. We're teaching effective lessons every day. We now have several very promising progressing investigators. My only concern is that I'm not sure if the bishop will approve of us baptizing this month. There's only one investigator that I have in mind who could really qualify for baptism that quickly and he won't have the prescribed amount of days at church. President Hutchings told us to go ahead with it if we felt strongly about it and he'd call the bishop and they'd work something out. I'm not too concerned about it because if he gets baptized this month or at the beginning of next month it'll still be pretty awesome. Its looking like we'll have at least 2 baptisms next month for an area that's not baptized at all for the last 3 transfers.
The next time you see Mitch if you could extend my personal thanks to him, he sent me an Easter package, I already wrote a letter thanking him but if you could pass that along to him as well that would be great.
I love you all very much, and thanks for everything that you do. I wish I had my scriptures with me but I don't and I'm terrible at memorize chapter and verse, but if you want a good food for thought scripture read the last 5ish verses of Alma's discourse to his first son, its the right hand column on the right page and the last verses in the chapter on the left hand column of the next page. It talks about the Liahona and he asks "Isn't there a type in this thing?" how the Liahona is like a representation of Christ, when we're obedient to His words and His ways then we're pointed in the right direction and its easy to follow. It's not necessarily easy to do, but it's easier to see the way in which we need to go. Then compare that to the promise given when Christ institutes the sacrament among the Nephites. If you REMEMBER Him, then you WILL, have His Spirit to be with you. So when we always remember Christ and follow His ways, then we'll have His Spirit with us and that makes the path as Alma states it easy. Then Christ points us to a promised land, beyond this "veil of tears." Love that scripture, wish I could remember the verse and chapter. (Alma 37:38-47)
Love y'all!!
Elder Carpenter
10 points to whomever can guess what a pole-cat is without google or any other online resource!
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