I ate a ton of food and it was really really good.
Thanksgiving was a blast even though I wasn't able to be on the football field this year showing off my top nominee Heisman skills to all these country folks out here. I love football but I'll just have to put those talents on the back burner for the time being.
I'll start at the beginning of the week.
So on Monday Elder Sauer and I got to teach some great lessons, and had to accomidate several missionaries to stay the night with us, they traveled in from Normal Bloomington, and Pontiac to stay the night here in Peoria. We have to wake up at 3:30 in the morning and were on the road by 4:45 and made the long trip all the way to Iowa City for the mission tour. I drove of course in my van. When we got there I saw so many of my missionary buddies and it was great. There were 6 of the 10 zones there and so like over a 100 missionaries at this mission tour. Elder Sauer did a special musical on the piano for the 2nd half of the conferance so he went and did his thing in the RS room before the meeting.
Elder Clarke reminds me so much of Grandpa Nelson, a really old school guy except he's from Rexburg ID. He just has the old school way of manners and talk and is always winking at people ;) He is a very great man who gave us so much instruction including the importance of the ONE. He hit strongly that everyony that we talk to and teach is someone's Dad or Cousin or Brother or Convert that we need to take very seriously. I Realized the truth of his statement that "if we don't take care of other's converts, then no one will take care of our converts". On Wednesday I got a call from Delores Sinks who I was teaching back in July and August and she got baptized up in Detroit a a couple of months ago and now she moved back and is one of those converts that i must help take care of.
Elder Clarke also introduced us to the new Church Christmas campaign mormon.org/christmas. I'm excited to get some good media referrals from this program and start teaching like it's the best thing on earth, because it is. The best feeling that I can get right now is the spiritual high that i get after a great lesson with an investigator. I love to teach and will probably beg President Chugg to let me teach some of those Missionary prep classes next fall.
After the mission tour we let everybody out and we had a Zone Leader Council in the chapel with Elder Clarke. He told us what we needed to get to our goal of 400 baptisms. He got very personal with all of us and really wanted to know every name of the people who had baptismal dates. Elder Sauer and I implimented this strategy into our zone training meeting on Friday.
Elder Clarke also answered some questions we had and then he went off for a while about post mission stuff and just life advice in general. It was so good to hear his take on how to live a good gospel centered life, how to pick our a spouse ( something that I've already done) and how to get rich hahha yes he told us how to get rich and it was great. It just takes hard work, good schooling, and a dedication to Family Life, Work Life, and Church Life. He is great and I love him so much, but Sister Clarke made a comment that i didn't like. She said " When you get home from work it should be the time to be with family and that means no golfing after work because that takes to much of your time". I thought about that and I know through the spirit that her comment was the biggest piece of false doctrine that I heard all day. On mormon.org we have videos and testimonies about how golf can get you ready for all aspects of life, especially getting you ready to be a mission president. Also I have a book at home that shows Prophets of God playing the game and enjoying themselves so don't give me that comment Sister Clarke even the scriptures talk about golf being heavenly. " The course of the Lord is one eternal round" 2Nephi 10:19 if it's in the scriptues, it's true. I did get to shake his hand and give him a hug and tell him why I can't speak spanish so yea he knows who I am.
I love thanksgiving we has lots to eat. We had a dinner at noon 2, and 4 and we had full meals at every single one of them. Oh boy can I eat when I want to eat. It's a good things that this next Sunday is fast Sunday.
I'm excited to keep teaching the gospel. I realized that my time here in Peoria is coming to an end and that i only have 4 more sundays left here. I super excited for Skype on Christmas and it's going to be a ball. so much to talk about but never enough time here on the computer and I just blank when I do come here.
I love the cd you sent me but it was the wrong one so I just took the liberty to order online the cd that i wanted. sorry but it's the best stuff ever.
I do have a christmas tree, and what would I do with decorations anyways, I'm busy trying to organize the work of the zone and help people achieve their fullest potential I don't have time for little Christmas crafts and I don't have the time to fiddle with all that sorry.
Sorry to hear that Uncle Stan died... I don't know who that is... It's a good thing we have the Atonement.
I love you all and i need to leave here because with our exchanges and college class and stuff we will be a little busy and have apt's set up today so peace.
Elder Gonzalez Peoria Illinois the place to be.
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