Group Email, 9/28

This morning was great. We had a district leader council that was patterned after the same meeting as Elder Bednar's. It was a 'what have you observed and what have you learned' type meeting. We were able to ask questions that could truly help us this coming moves and then were able to all be taught by the Spirit. I learned so many things about getting out of the way of the Spirit working. The more we're present in missionary work, the less we're in the way of the spirit.

Afterwards we went up to Ozard Hill and dedicated this moves. Elder Jensen and I made a goal of two baptisms this moves. We are bound to this goal and are going to work as hard as we can to acheive it. We took our goals to the Lord and feel strongly that when we put in the underlying effort, the Lord will be able to bring about many baptisms. We're excited to work!

This past Sunday we had a missionary musical fireside. there was a great turn out and things went smoother than anticipated. We technically started work on it just this past Wednesday because we didn't know who would be here and who would move. After we knew though, we started ing out the program and the song practices. We involved much of the ward. We went through each principle and had a song for each, and elder Talbot had narration for each principle. We started off with Lydia McPhee (7years old) and Elder Jensen singing a child's prayer and got all of the older women crying (good start :) We wanted the section on Christ's earthly ministry and atonement to be powerful so we sang 'I Believe in Christ' with the congregation, and directly following that we flowed into 'This is the Christ'. That was my favorite number. Some nonmembers were there and the bishop's ending testimony was perfect for them, that if they prayed about the Book of Mormon, then they would know that it was true.

The Zone and bishops and priesthood auxilaries in the stake had a meeting with Elder Kerr, an area seventy. It as well was paterned after elder Bednar's meeting and we didn't get the planned slides into the meeting, but we all learned from the spirit. These are revelatory experiences rather than meetings. We're changing how we correlate with the wards and it's exciting. We're doing a lot more less-active work and it should increase our teaching pools as well, by those we find through those who have been invited to come back. The Lord knows what he's doing. I love the gospel. This work truly is the Lord's work and he is so close to it. The church is true,

Elder K. Anthony