Finding Fire

Hello Everyone!

So last time when I said the work was slow, turns out I kinda lied. Now that everyone in the Zone got new comps and I'm now training, we've been on fire. My comp and I basically had to start from scratch in our area, but it turns out that wasn't too hard to do because we found 32 new people to teach that week, and my ZL's (being both crazy and inspiring) found more than 100 new people last week. So we've actually been kinda swamped teaching in the area where our new chapel is going to be.

We also had this awesome activity in Eiwa (our Group) where members from the branch came to the group and went out two by two tracting for us. At the end of an hour and a half, we ended up with 53 new references! We have to start calling them so we can actually meet all of them, but this should help out a lot!

So much of the past weeks have been focused on finding, and we've been really blessed in our efforts to find so many people that want to learn more and receive the blessings God has for them!

Unfortunately, during the activity in Eiwa, I gave away my personal copy of the Book of Mormon, so I don't have all my notations and marked scriptures anymore. But this is like a new chance to start over and see if new scriptures stand out to me that I can share in my lessons. So I get to build a new "teaching" Book of Mormon, which is kinda fun!

As always, hope y'all have a good week!

Elder Bishop

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