Today
has been a sad day. Elder Bornes went home. 2 hours ago the Zone
Leaders picked him up from our house and took him to the airport. The
thing we're confused about is he acted fine around us and was happy and
working. We lost one today.
Now
me and Elder Coon and Elder Quick will be in a trio, and as sad as it
is Elder Bornes is leaving, it's going to be a fun trio :)
Yesterday
we had a Multi-Zone Conference in Franklin. It lasted from 9-4, we got a
lunch break though and they fed us, but by the end of it my companion
was sweating drops. Marcus B. Nash of the Quorum of the Seventy came and talked to us. It was fun and we learned A LOT. Sister Cleveland, President Cleveland, Sister Nash and Elder Nash all talked.
Sister
Cleveland talked about Always being Happy. She related it too how much
she loves signs, she'll go to stores and look for signs and buy them.
One of the signs hanging in President Cleveland's room is "Attitude is
everything, so pick a good one" another one is "If you're waiting for a
sign, here it is" she gave a really good talk.
President
Cleveland talked about this, you know this was my favorite talk. He
talked about MAKING IT A GAME. He told a story about a time he was in
the Marriott Center and they were playing Utah in 2001. They were down
22 and they were going into the locker room and people were throwing
things at President Cleveland and yelling things at him, he said "good
things because we were in the Marriott Center":) he went into the locker
room with his team and all the players were mad and upset and walking
around and he just sat there in silence. They didn't know how they were
losing because they were a better team then Utah and they were supposed
to beat them by a lot.
President
Cleveland said to his team "Patience, you guys came out too excited and
wanted to just beat them bad, and you didn't play the way we normally
play. I have a plan and it'll work. We're gonna break this game into 5
different games of 4 minutes. Every 4 minutes there is a t.v timeout in
College Basketball. He says by the 16 minute mark we need the game to be
a 16 point difference. And by the 16 minute mark they did cut it to
that. The next 4 minutes we need to cut the difference to 10 points. And
they did that. At the 12 minute mark it was only a 10 point game. By
the 8 minute mark we need to have it to a 4 point game. And they did.
With 4 minutes left they're only down by 4. They win the game on a last
second shot and win by 1. He
says "Take a timeout! If your day is not going good, go to your house
and take a time out. Go in make it a game. Break it down into 5
different games. 1 game maybe you pass out 20 pass along cards. Another
game you say, we're gonna find 1 investigator in 10 minutes. Do things
like that." I loved it I was just soaking it up. It's so funny he gets
into Coach Mode when he's talking to us, he'll yell for 30 seconds,
almost like it's a timeout. And then he'll calm down again and he always
walks around and paces back and forth and points his finger like he's
still a coach. I love it.
After
that Sister Nash gave a talk on being obedient. And how it's the Lord's
time. How the whole mission has to have an exact obedience.
Elder
Nash gave one of the best talks I've ever heard. I wrote down 4 pages
of notes. I learned so much. He talked about everything. Everything he
talked about was what everyone needed to hear. Even President Cleveland
said when Elder Nash flew in and got to my house on Saturday night
and we had a meeting, everything he brought into the meeting was to
help our weaknesses as a mission. He told us how we can teach with
power.
He
told us of recent stories where he was in Florida and they were driving
down this dirt road to this trailer house of this less active family.
He and the Stake President were in the car. He knocked on the door and a
woman answered and it looked like she didn't want to talk to them. She
was shocked. He was warm with her and she warmed up and said my husband
will be here in a few minutes. A couple minutes later here husband
pulled up in a golf cart. Elder
Nash does not know why he did this, but he walked to the mans golfcart
and soon enough he was at the golfcart and he usually never does this
but he hugged the man and told him "our church needs you, and frankly
you need our church" He
told us how to help people that are offended of something that happened
with them and the church. He said, I was talking to this lady that this
happened too and me and a Stake President went to her house. After a
while of talking I said "You know who I am, a General Authority" she
said "yes" he said "as an Authorized representative of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I am sorry on behalf of the church."
the woman accepted his apology and came back to church. He
told us "you guys are Authorized as a representative of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and can say that same thing to people"
at the end of the meeting we sang "Army of Helaman" and Sister
Cleveland was crying and it almost made Elder Quick cry.
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