So this week went by slow but also super fast! I'm at the point in my mission that I'm just so used to doing missionary work that everything is just a blur!
But this week truly was one of the best weeks I've had! We as a missionary baptized 52 children of God last transfer which means we broke the mission record and have set a new one! So to celebrate our president allowed us to have a celebration game hour before zone conference started. It was a blast! We did a zone against zone party and all zones were hyped up, we were going crazy! We ended up winning two out of the four games that were played, one of which was the oreo on the forehead challenge, then a wrap the mummy challenge. But the other zone won two as well so we had to go to a tie breaker. We were doing a trick shot with ping pong balls and a water cup and you just had to throw it in. So we start the tie breaker and the other zone got so close so many times, adrenaline was pumping through us all and then it gets to my turn, so I step up, throw the ball and I swear, life was in slow mo as I let go of the ball. To my surprise, I made the shot and the whole zone went wild!!!! We won the zone challenge and truly became certified as the best zone in the dang mission!!! Best part? I was lucky enough to seal that with my shot! I kid you not this was a core memory for me!! My zone leaders hoisting me up in the air, all of us chanting our zone name! It was awesome!
Then we got to relax a little and we had an awesome spirit filled zone conference. My favorite part was obviously president, and one thing I love about my president is he is just so fired up and truly helps us remember how important our role is in the world. When we baptize people we aren't just increasing numbers to the church, we are literally handing people the keys to the Celestial kingdom. We are the only ones on earth who can do that. Members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have that important role to invite others to come unto christ so they can in the end belong to God's Celestial kingdom.
Other than zone conference we had a pretty chill week! We were able to get back into contact with some of our friends and they were seriously the most spirit led miracles we could have asked for. I had such a strong prompting to go stop by one of our friends but I almost disregarded it. Fortunately I didn't and we ended up getting a return appointment with this lady!
Another crazy thing was I had to give a talk in church about faith and hope. I thought it was a pretty good talk but I hate talking in front of that many people so my chest was pounding all week! Fortunately I ended up doing great and I had a lot of members come up and tell me how awesome my talk was which felt very good to hear. I've never been too fond of talking but I do love it when I can not only enlighten other people but myself as well! Just preparing for this talk I learned so much about faith and hope. Personally I never fully understood hope and how it applies to the gospel but now I've learned that hope are the dreams we have of happiness and eternal life and how that hope leads to action because if I want eternal life, I've got to take the necessary steps to achieve eternal life! And then that's where faith comes into play as well! I need to have faith that what I am doing will give me the chance to have eternal life! It's awesome and I'm so glad I learned more.
Well that was pretty much my week, we just became champions in zone conference, we have done lots of finding with little to no success but then saw miracles as we were led to people to visit and I had to give a talk in sacrament on Sunday! Aight! Yall have a wonderful day/week! Love and miss each and every one of yall! Talk to yall in the next one!!!
-Elder Milius
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