This week was zone conference week. It always makes for a pretty stressful couple of days that make me really appreciate my bed more. We started at zone conference in Des Moines on Tuesday, headed to Iowa City for the New Trainers meeting and exchanges in Davenport on Wednesday, zone conference in D Port on Thursday, then traveled back over to Iowa CIty for the concluding zone conference. We had a killer zone conference this week. You always leave zone conference with a renewed fire to get work done and lay it all out there. Elder Wood and I gave our final training together... We have given like 7 together, so it was pretty sad to conclude that last one. I sure love that guy, I haven't really talked about our relationship too much but we are best pals. It is pretty weird being with someone 24/7 for this long, I feel like we are turning into the same human. We are going to try to add him to our apartment for second semester. Good things to come man.
We trained on finding the elect. It went well. We talked a lot about sacrificing temporal comforts to show our love to Jesus Christ. We talked about my guy Peter being asked three times if he loved Jesus Christ and the response every time being something along the lines of "feed my sheep." I have talked about it a lot on my mission, but we show God our love by showing His children love and helping them remember the things they may have forgotten. We also talked a lot about being personable with people and door step approaches and things. We put together a list of tips called the "Finding Fruit Snacks." They were a hit. We thought it was catchy. :)
At zone conference, I got to give my departing testimony. That was pretty weird. At my first zone conference when everyone was going home I remember thinking that I am never going to do that. Two years seemed like an eternity. It went well and to my surprise, I didn't even cry. I was pumped about that, I have become pretty soft out here, physically and emotionally.
After zone conference on Friday, we took a trip down to Nauvoo to watch the pageant. Man it is so cool. I am so excited to bring you guys out here to it. I have a ton of gratitude for the early saints of the church and the sacrifices they made to bring forth the gospel. We got a picture with the guy who played Heber C. Kimball. That guy baptized like 1500 people on his first mission to England, almost as many as Elder Wood and I here in Iowa. He is a legend.
In other news, our friend I is entering the waters of baptism this Saturday. He is the man, I sure love LIberia. He is a stud, he knows the bible really well so all of our lessons are an adventure. He is really great though, he will make a great member of the church. He told us yesterday, "Elders, the reason I ask so many questions is because when I go back to Liberia, I will have to share with everyone the gospel I have received, and I don't want to lead anyone astray!" That dude is a scholar. He will be my final baptism, which is a happy and sad thing. I have been blessed to teach so many amazing people. I sure do love the people of the Iowa (and Liberia of course).
Well, that is about it for the week. Pretty wild to me that I am headed into my last full week as a missionary. Good stuff for sure though. I am blessed to say that I don't have any regrets. I am eternally grateful for the privilege it has been to serve her in Iowa. We will get into all of that stuff next week.
Love you all!
The real softy,
Elder Obray
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| Learning to be more domestic. I can now bake bread thanks to Sister B. |
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| Interesting picture, but I thought it was cute. |
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| My pal |
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| The legend himself, Heber C. Kimball |
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