It's Been a Year!

Dear Mom and Dad,

Well another transfer is down and Elder DeYoung and I are still here! The mission used to send out the transfer list on Monday in an email, but President Peterson has changed it because he thinks that missionaries are a bit distracted the week of transfers . So now we get phone calls on Wednesday morning and they tell us who is transfered! It'll be interesting to see how this works...there are three zones that have a full day of travel to get to a transfer meeting on Friday morning at the Mission Home. This creates a bit of a logistics issue! It's ok though.

We had a good week with our baptism! The baptism on Saturday morning went well, and I was able to perform the baptism.  I'll try to send a picture. After our baptism on Saturday we went directly to our Stake Priesthood Executive Committee (PEC). As Zone Leaders we have to meet with the Stake Leadership once every transfer to coordinate and discuss missionary work in the area.  The Stake Leadership meets once every few months and as you can imagine there is lots of work to do! The Stake Leadership is great too, but it is hard to keep everything running smoothly when you meet every couple of months. (Let me say this....tell Presidents Wheatley, Lee, and Hatch that I love them so much and they're so so so so so awesome)We had a good meeting with the Stake Leadership and we were really positive and emphasized working with Less-Active and Part Members. I think we really built some good trust with the leadership.

Thanks so much for the letters from the Beach Gang!! I can't wait to go again! This Friday I hit my one year mark as a missionary! At the beginning it was slow, but things have sure sped up. I'll be sure to take a picture or something. And I'll for sure answer those questions for Brother Tenny, just don't have time this week.

So this week I also became a District Leader (I am still a Zone Leader). That was a bit of a surprise! Not sure exactly why because there are some Elders that could be the DL but this is what President Petersen wanted to do. It will give me an opportunity to prepare workshops every week again, which I really missed. I'll also get to go on more exchanges with other missionaries. This will certainly make my life more hectic, but I'm grateful for the opportunity!

I'm sorry this was a bit shorter and I didn't share as much. I promise more next week when I have more time! Love you all!!

Love,

Elder Yost