Well this week has been a busy one. We had a Zone meeting Tuesday which was interesting. During our Zone meeting we were going over our goals for the zone and while we were setting a goal for baptism, the zone got into a stand off which lasted about an hour. Our mission goal for the month of December was to have 65 baptisms for the whole mission. The goal for the zone was 15 (which I think is pretty reasonable). The zone leaders wanted to change the goal to something a little higher. Some people got talking and they came up with 40 people for our zone alone. The sisters and the some elders were all for it. Then one of the zone leaders asked me what I thought about the goal and I told them that I thought 40 was too high. The past couple of months we have only hit the teens. So I asked them if they are going to just baptize less active members. I told them about a lady I ran into who the missionaries pushed her to be baptized and now she is less active and won't come to church because she doesn't believe it's true. So I told them 20 would be a more realistic number. Some of the sisters went off saying that we didn't have enough faith and that if we test our faith then we will see miracles and we could reach our goal of 40. Then one of the zone leaders asked my companion what he thought. He was on the same page as I was. He did mention that we could have all the faith in the world but it is still up to Heavenly Father as to when people join the church and that we need to make sure that it's something that the investigator wants and that they will be lifelong members. There are too many times where he has run into less active members who joined the church because the missionaries said it was a good idea. After while we were able to come to the agreement that 20 was a more reasonable number and could be reached.
Wednesday was a fun day. We had our Christmas Zone Conference, where 6 zones got together and we had a musical program and then we were able to watch Monster University. I was also able to see some elders from other areas as well.
Thursday and Friday we tried to contact people from our area book that we put together but had no luck. By the time I got home Friday night I wasn't feeling too good. My face was hot but the rest of my body was cold. Saturday when I woke up I didn't feel good at all. My throat was sore, my left ear hurt and my tonsils were red with little white flakes on them. A couple of other elders come over and brought me some Benadryl and 7 up. I ended up sleeping all day. Sunday I felt a little better. I went to church and did all the usual Sunday things. Sunday night we got our transfer call. My companion is getting transferred Wednesday. Neither one of us was happy about that, but life goes on.
Today my throat and ear still hurt but not as bad as it was. It's more of just an annoying pain. I've been gargling salt water which helps some.
Well, that's about my week.
Love, Scott
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