WRITTEN: November 29th, 2016
Hey Family!
This was the last week of transfers and my last week of training, it's crazy how fast that went by! We have all been a little anxious to see what the changes were going to be. Turns out Elder Jordan is leaving me and going to Dover, bout 40 min away. I'm staying in Jersey city for at least 12 more weeks. My new companion will be Elder Johnson, this transfer with me will be his last in the mission, so that'll be a bit interesting.
Tuesday we had our last district meeting this transfer. Kinda sad now knowing that a lot of the zone is getting sent to different zones but hopefully I can see some of my close buds around. Elder Meek or district leader is super funny and such an awesome guy, he's getting sent off to another area:( Our area is getting four new missionaries today!
Thursday was a super fun filled day! Thanksgiving! We had a turkey bowl! Every year the mission has a turkey bowl and the whole mission gets together and and plays football for like 4 hours in the morning. Our zone got together with two other zones and played some FOOTBALL! It was super fun! President Taggart was on our team👍. After we went to the Union city chapel and our wonderful senior couple made an awesome thanksgiving lunch, I'm sure you all saw pictures on Facebook. It was soooo good. We had people from the ward come and make the famous nacho libre corn! It was like something I've never ever imagined but it was super yummy! After that we got wrecked with food. We had a meal appointment at 5:30 and another at 7:30. We were so full of food and so tired when we got home.
Friday the new church campaign launched! We were super excited for that! It's all about service this year, super fun to go around and share a message of Christ and how we can follow his example by serving others. People may not always accept our message about Christ but they may accept our message about serving others and that's a good step taken. As long as we get people to change for good means we are going in the right direction.
Sunday was awesome. Elder Jordan and I taught elders quorum. We talked about a talk given by President Monson. It was called Principles and promises, it talked about the principle of the word of wisdom and how there are promised blessings that we are given when we obey the word of wisdom. It was a really good lesson. Later on Sunday we tried by a less active we were told to go by from a member who lives upstairs. Didn't know if he was going to be home but he was. Super nice guy, invited us inside and we talked a little bit. We didn't want to take too much of their time but we just wanted to show them the Because of Him video. In reality as missionaries we shouldn't just be looking for numbers. We should be helping those who have fallen of the path and reminding them that they have made a scared covenant with God and they need to keep it. We invite them back to church so that they can feel the healing power of the atonement in their own lives by partaking of he sacrament. We could feel the spirit super strong in the lesson. At the end we were saying the prayer and he just got down on his knees. Pretty awesome experience. He knows he needs to come and he's going to come so we're crossing our fingers that he does!
That's how my weeks been in a little blur. Thanks for all your thanksgiving wishes! Love you guys!
Love,
Elder Marz
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