September 25, 2023 Zone Conference and Zone Olympics

 Hola Amigos,


This week was a busy week for sure!! We had two 24 hour exchanges back to back! It was so amazing to meet and teach new people! I loved seeing other areas around the Salt Lake City West mission and I realized there is so much amazing work to be done! It was also an amazing experience to teach with new Hermanas!! Hermana Reyna is an incredible missionary and I learned so much from her. 

We had a fun service project with the District where we pulled trees out of a yard for three hours! Super fun and we got plenty of brownies so I wasn't complaining. 

The main highlight of the week was Izan!! He is now eight years old and so excited to be baptized. We met with this sweet family who moved from Columbia and have been teaching them for a while! They are adjusting to the states and began taking lessons from the missionaries. This Friday we went to meet with this family and the first thing that Izan said was "¿puedo bautizarme?!" This was an answer to prayers for sure and we were able to extend this sweet invitation to him for baptism! He happily accepted and his testimony is muy fuerte!! He is on fecha for October 7th!!

I had my first ZONE CONFERENCE!! It was a day full of spiritual revelation. President and Sister Spencer are the most incredible mission leaders and are always pushing us to have more faith, more hope and more miracles! My testimony has grown so much from them and their confidence in this work! 

Today for Pday we had Zone Olympics! Our zone went up against another zone and played many intense minute to win it games. Sadly we lost by twenty points, but we know in our hearts that our zone is superior.


Every day I have listened to a conference talk by Elder Holland. He has so many amazing talks but here are some things that have filled me with comfort this week…
● "Rely on Him. Rely on Him heavily. Rely on Him forever" -Elder Holland 
●"Can he bear all of our sins and our fear and loneliness too? He did and he does and he will" -Elder Holland 
●"Christ loves us to the end. His pure love never fails us. Not now. Not ever. Not ever" -Elder Holland 

Happy General Conference weekend!! I hope everyone feels the spirit and enjoys good Conference snacks :))
 
Love, Hermana Ross 



Hermana Prince...from Menifee!

Zone Olympics: Team Jacob





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