Hellllllooo everyone again. For my last couple weeks, I have made a goal to write an email every week! I know that sounds kinda sad to hear since I should’ve been doing that all along, but hey forgive me I'm not perfect haha.
This past week has been awesome! Ever since I got here, I have kinda taken the reins on things and taken charge. That is kinda what this area has needed. I'm not trying to call out previous elders that have been here but they just weren't using time wisely and weren't effective. At least that's just my opinion haha. Since I have been here, we have found five new people to teach, four being this last week. I haven't done that since being in my first area in Avon which that area already was a super good area and had a lot of people to teach. Not to mention it had inner city Indianapolis which had lots of people there. My area currently is just another small town in Indiana so that is unheard of! We sure as heck haven't done it alone. We have asked the Lord daily to help us find new people to teach and he blessed us with five in the last two weeks! Pretty incredible!
One of the people we found was a man named Danny. His wife is a member and has been for a while. He is in his early 90's so he is getting up there haha. He's a super cool guy and has told us that he has a strong testimony about priesthood blessings. We had a lesson with him this last week and we didn't have much time so we just shared a short message with them about faith but plan to meet with him again this week! Super cool!
Another cool thing that this area does is every Wednesday there's a group of guys in the community that meet up and play frisbee golf. Well, my companion and his companion before I got here were walking around that one park that they play frisbee golf at and the people who played invited them over to talk with them and also play with them! So, for the last two weeks we have been meeting up with them and playing frisby golf with them. The coolest part about this though is how many questions they have asked us about our missionary work. Two of the guys we play with have expressed solid interest and we are planning on setting some lessons up with them separate from playing disc golf! It's super cool to see how the lord brings his people to us. If we can't go to them then the lord brings them to us. Since being on my mission that is something, I have gained a strong testimony on. Especially during such an odd time to be a missionary it has given me great comfort that the lord is still preparing his children and that there is so much that us missionaries can do!!
We also had zone conference this last week which was great! Even though sometimes the meetings go way longer than they should... I still manage to get a lot out of them! We talked a lot about how to get members involved in the work and it helped us come up with some ideas on how we can do that! Overall, it was a good zone conference! There's nothing like driving 3 hours down to Indy then staying there for four hours and then driving another 3 hours back up to our area haha.
I love you all and hope you have a great week!
SEND IT FOR THE LORD
ELDER HILBURN
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