This was another awesome week in Neao. On Monday we did a lot of
service...that usually happens when they reschedule our pday haha
because we already have service planned anyway. Tuesday we did more
service...but on Udot! They were finally getting the tent set up for
their new "church building" and Elder Garae and I went with the Zone
Leaders to help clear a space and set it up. It was fun seeing all
those people again. I missed them.
On Wednesday we got some good teaching done and also all of the outer
island missionaries came in for Zone Conference so we got a little
help teaching too. Friday we were supposed to have Zone
Conference...but it got rescheduled to Saturday because President
Zarbock's flight was cancelled and he wasn't coming till Friday
afternoon. So we taught all day Friday which was much needed because
we hadn't had a ton of teaching time this week. So I got to see pretty
much all of our investigators and less actives.
Saturday was an awesome day. Met President Zarbock and got started
with Zone Conference at 8 in the morning. President Mecham was a kind
of up in your face lawyer style mission president (think Elder
Holland) and I am glad to say that President Zarbock is the same way
haha just a little gentler and upbeat which is awesome and I am stoked
for this zone now. He is pushing us to be a lot more obedient which
will help a ton. After Zone Conference, President found out his flight
got cancelled again and he wouldn't be leaving till Sunday instead of
Saturday and guess what he wanted to do! Go teaching with some Elders.
Haha and right when he asked the ZL's where he could teach I happened
to be standing right there and Elder Selander said "you could go to
Neao!" so that was cool but it ended up being so awesome and that is
so awesome President wanted to actually get the feel as a Chuuk
missionary and see what it is like. I thought just because he was
there that the Spirit would just be there all the time-and it was. But
not just because he was there but because what he did to bring it
there--follow all the rules, say heartfelt prayers, prepare, and just
do everything a missionary is supposed to do and the Spirit just wants
to be there! With us and the investigators. I know what kind of
missionary I wanna be all the time now! There are always stuff I can
work on as a missionary and I am so glad President was there to help
me realize it. He is the man and I already love him!
Sunday we had church and a couple investigators came and I ended up
teaching the youth class again. But it was way good. And Priesthood we
had 22 people there, it was sweet! Well, I think that was all for this
week, we are hoping to have a couple more baptisms on the 26th so pray
that they will be able to happen! We started filling out Peter's
papers, hopefully we can get him teaching with us too. That should be
it. I love you mom!
Love, Elder Schroath
Hey dad!
My week has been awesome. The new mission president will help out our
zone a ton. He is a lot more involved with the actual missionaries so
he can get a better feel for how things happen in Chuuk Zone. He is
also going to ask for more missionaries to come to our mission--since
there are 250 missionaries in some US missions when here has tons of
potential areas to open that just need missionaries and we are only
sitting at 110 or so missionaries.
Chuuk is still working to becoming a stake...President Zarbock has a
focus of not only baptizing new members (still 1,000 goal) but also
reactivating less actives. We actually are reporting our numbers on
Less Actives Reactivated-which is like getting a baptism almost haha.
My companion did his teaching part in all Chuukese the other day-the
first time. So he is learning and quicker and quicker. I am doing what
I can to help him out. Thank you for emailing me dad! I love you!
Elder Schroath
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