I Sang in Zone Conference

 Hola,

Another week down. Time is flying by, I just hit my 20-month mark. So now things are getting really weird haha.... can't believe how fast it's gone. It's been so fun and powerful; I just hope these last few transfers don't go by too quickly. People look at me funny when I tell them I'm that far out. I usually just say I've been out over a year. Since I've basically emailed every single week of my mission, a lot of this stuff is pretty old so hopefully I can get creative with pictures and find some interesting things to talk about.

I went on exchanges with Elder Hughes. That guy is pretty cool. He's super funny. Anyways we went to the library to do our companion study when a loud noise exploded as we were walking into the front doors of the library. Behind us on the main street a pretty bad car accident just happened. It was super loud, and I turned around just in time to see a car spin around after getting hit, and another driving right up onto the sidewalk and knocking a whole palm tree over. I think everyone was okay, I'm sure the guy who hit the palm tree was in shock for sure. We ran over there to see if everyone was alright and called 911. It was super wild and kinda of a rush. I took some pictures and after the authorities came, then my companion and I walked inside to do companion study.

Picture of the car accident

I sang at zone conference this week. I've always wanted to and now I finally did it. It was super worth it because I thought I did a pretty decent job. The song was 'Savior, Pilot Me' in Spanish. I also gave a zone conference training for the first time with Elder Dawson. We cut out doors and taped them on the wall and trained on how to follow the spirit. The whole conference was on acting on promptings and receiving revelation. I thought the training was really good and probably one of the best ones I've ever given. It was a pretty fun zone conference.

Zone Conference training

Elder Dawson is really cool guy. We've been having a lot of fun together and we get along pretty well. He's good at leading other missionaries and he's on the gas with the work. My roommates, Elder Moa and Spafford are pretty cool too. Even though they're the assistants to the president, we've done some pretty crazy stuff together while living in this house.

I literally had the weirdest sacrament meeting of my mission this week. The counselor in the bishopric comes up and says we will not have any speakers or talks today. Elder Dawson and I both look at each other and are like what. Then he says people can come up and bare their testimony on one of the hymns in the hymnbook, then we will sing together the first verse of that Hymn. So, we ended up singing 8 or 9 different times. A lot of the songs were repeats too it was hilarious. Then one of the sisters comes up and brings the sister missionaries up too, and they all start talking about deep doctrine up there. They went off about the idea of a heavenly mother and a bunch of other stuff and I was like you have to be kidding me. We had investigators there too. Pretty cool sacrament meeting. Then in second hour the teacher didn't prepare a lesson, so we did open mic night on which scripture was our favorite.

Anyways, that was my week. Love you all and I'll see you next week!

Sincerely,

Elder Neil Pack