WAHOO for missions

Im actually apart of the Georgia Atlanta North Mission now!!! It now feels like real life that ive changed missions and im actually not to sad! Heres me week for all yall 

Tuesday: nothing crazy happened just a day in the mission.

Wednesday: ZONE CONFERENCE!!!! tbh i think this was one of the best days on the mission for me! To start of the day I SAW TWO OF MY FRIENDS FROM HOME AHHHH first we got to zone conference and met lots of new missionaries which was great and then i saw Elder Alldredge omg it was so fun and made me so happy to see a high school friend in georgia and in the same mission CRAZY!! THEN i turn around and see Sister Wersland from cosmetology school!!! AHHH the excitement was real!! Theres nothing like a familiar face when you are far from home! Highlight of the week for me was seeing both of them for sure!!
Zone conference!! We started off by having lunch with the entire mission and then took a mission photo of the whole mission in front of the city hall!! Then we had zone conference and it was the best 4 hrs of my life. The north mission is on FIRE! President Marsh is so dedicated to the work and is here to get things done and not waste time. At zone conference they explained many of the things they do that might be different! One of the things was what they call Yellow Pad Prayer where you pray in a way where you recieve direct and real time revelation from God (President Nelson does it). A few of the missionaries shared their experiences from YPP and they were amazing. President Marsh told us to imagine it like Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are right in the room with you and you are having a conversation with them. He began to share many amzing experiences with us and it really inspired me and motivated me to learn this YPP so i can recieve this kind of revelation for myself.
President Marsh also made what is called 174 unique and exclusive gifts of the gospel and they're a bunch of topics that talk about our beliefs with more info about them and what they can do for us. IT IS SO HELPFUL!! He also made something called the FAT discusion which stands for the Family and Temple discussion. We had a call saturday night about it and the missionaries told us just by using this baptisms went from 15-20 per month to 40-50 per month! PRESIDENT MARSH IS AMAZING!! As you can tell he is here to BE a mission president and help the work progress and I am so amazed by his dedication. They also told us some helpful tricks when teaching and i always need those!! So long story short zone conference was great!! 

Thursday: we taught Vladimir and pushed his baptism back to the 27th so pray for him!! 
We taught Anthony! Anthony told us he is very interested in religion and thought he should learn it from the source rather than random places. He told us that if he finds out it is true thats just a bonus. We taught him the restoration and it was a very good lesson! 
Kyree!!! We taught Kyree again and played a matching game with him and wooow his attention span was not there this time. We are trying to come up with lessons that will keep him engaged so let me know of ideas!!!

Friday: 4 week follow up!! This is like new missionary training in the GAM but in the GANM they call it 4 week follow up. It was awesome to meet the new missionaries so i could have some friends and people that relate to me! 
After we went to the temple with a recent convert that Sister Trussell taught! It was her first time so we got to go!! It was an amazing experience to be able to go to the temple with a recent convert going for her 1st time and another one was there going for her 2nd. The spirit was so strong and i felt as if what im doing here in georgia might eventually make a difference in someones life. After we went to olive garden so cant forget that!! Yum yum

Saturday: nothing to exciting.

Sunday: I LOVE SUNDAYS!!! Vladimir and Anthony came to church and so did kyree the recent convert!!! WOOOO
After church we were contacting and decided to try the FAT discussion. The first house we knocked on was a lady Alma. We started talking to her about families and how we believe we can be sealed with our families for all eternity. She let us into her home and told us she is struggling right now and has met with the missionaries in the past in California when she was looking for a religion but decided to join the Jehovah witnesses. We asked her why and she told us she had some concerns with the "mormon" church. We asked her what they were so we could clarify and we did!! We answered her concerns and explained them to her!!! She was a little hesitant with us at first but we got a return appointment!! 
As we were tracting after dinner in a different neighborhood we walked up to a house and a car pulled to the side of the road to get our attention. We walked over and he told us he has studied the bible a lot and believes there should be more somewhere! WHATTT?? GOLD RIGHT? we set up a return appointment with him! 

All these stories are just a few of the miracles of missionary work. I am so blessed that i was chosen to have these experiences and that jesus christ can trust me to teach his gospel and be a disciple of him. I wear his name on my chest everyday and i hope to be able to represent him better and better everyday i serve him. I challenge everyone reading this to be their own missionary. It might be by giving someone a book of mormon, not being shy about sharing your beliefs, or by being an example by the way you live the gospel. Everyone can be a missionary in their own unique way.