Zone "Revelatory Experience"

Spiritual: Elder Perkins toured our mission and gave us some very good tools to help us be better missionaries. He talked about how we need to change our thinking from having "boring meetings" to having "inspired revelatory experiences" and all we need to do to make that happen is to ask a question before and pay attention to the answer!  You can do it for any experience and is something he had learned from Elder Bednar. I really liked learning about what it means to be bold and how to teach using the Book of Mormon. 

Funny: Tracting brings out the best stories. We met a German lady named Maria who told us "You're Mormon?! I've never met a Mormon before!" and then told us about her quilts and her yard and was super sweet. Then, another day, we met a legit bible basher, but he wasn't even the iconic Baptist, he was Catholic. He got really frustrated when we told him that we believe that the Book of Mormon is true, no matter what lies he'd heard about it. How do you get them to stop talking at you?? I still haven't figured it out. 

Where I'm at: I am still in Millington and a lot of the kids we were working with are at a standstill, either because they are away for the summer or they need permission from their parents before we can baptize them. Miracles we have seen are that Dawn and her husband are both interested in the Gospel and a girl who's basically a dry Mormon got permission to take the lessons and get baptized!  The heat is exciting, but not too bad and we love the ward here. 

 One family has a pet snake, they let me hold it. It's a python constrictor (I think) named Killer.

 We got ice cream!!

 They had a zone activity where they played Hungry Hungry Hippos. 

 Sister missionaries and Memphis tradition...writing on the wall at Huey's. 

With Sister Perkins, wife of the visiting authority, at the Mission Conference.