Its really been a crazy week. Honestly so much has happened that it feels more like a month since that last time I emailed.
First, just to clear things up, because I didnt explain it like I intended to in my last email, nobody here died. I meant to put that died in quotes, meaning his mission was over, went home. Sorry about that. Ha, missionary language.
So we have had a lot of meetings over the last week. We had zone meeting last week because it was the beginning of the month. It was a good meeting and we received quite a bit of training. We also just yesterday had a zone conference, which is a much bigger meeting involving a few zones. We received much more training from the assistants and President Ashton. We were taught much about finding people to teach. We learned how we must talk with people not to people. Its a hard tendency to break as missionaries, but it must be done because the is no effectiveness in talking to people. We must be sincere and charitable in talking to and getting to know people. It puts a different perspective on missionary work. It becomes much more becoming a missionary and not just going on a mission.
Another thing that happened occurred as we were planning for the week.... Oh yeah, by the way. My companion is Elder Robison. I guess I haven't actually said that. We are together for now and is anticipated that we will stay together for quite a while.... Anyways, as we were planning for the week, we had strong impressions that we needed to give up our English area and focus entirely on the Viet branch. That was a hard decision to make. That means we had to pass off Maurice and the other investigators that we had to other missionaries. It also requires that we become very creative in how we can fill all of our time working in Viet with productive activities. We have spent a lot of extra time planning and figuring out what our approach will be. It will be difficult, but we know that it is what the Lord would have us do right now.
Well, thats about it for right now. Have great week!
Love
Elder Phong Manhardt
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