I am Eating Good Enough to Get the Job Done

Hey hey hey!


How is everyone? Things are great where I'm at. Sorry that I haven't told you about the people we're teaching. We're still teaching J., I'm not sure how much you know about her but she keeps all of her commitments, is always at church and enjoys the members, but for some reason just won't quite fully commit. We've invited her to baptized several times, but she always says "I need to learn more before I get baptized". She'll definitely be baptized eventually, but she is a slow mover.

  Jo. hasn't really changed much since I've been here. Right now he really can't progress until his family starts being a better example and start to help him out more. Everyone else in the family are members. We stopped teaching T. and L. for a while, but we started teaching them again. So far I haven't seen to much difference in their willingness to change, so we'll see if they start progressing. M., a recent convert from Liberia, has a friend and his uncle is living with him now. We set up an appointment to see how M. was doing, and when we went over we had met both G. and Me. and started teaching them. It was really unexpected and was a really cool miracle. G. has been out of town for the last couple of weeks, but Me. has been reading the Book of Mormon. He always has a list of questions for us to answer which shows that he really wants to know if it is true. It surprises me how specific his questions are. Last time we visited he asked us, "What is the relationship between Alma and Gideon?" Who asks something like that??? It was kind of funny, but it does show how much time he's spending to understand the Book of Mormon. 

We also just picked up a lady that was being taught a couple of years ago named Nikki Sixx... No, I'm not joking. She literally bought the name in court back in the 80's. She's a cool lady in a crazy kind of way. We've only met with her once so far. I'm not sure how much you know about some of our investigators I just mentioned, so ask questions if you want to know more. Right now we don't have anyone scheduled to be baptized and are trying to find the elect.


The zone leader duties are... well, they're duties. It's really great to be able to work with the other leaders and with the Mission President often and I'm learning so much. We have great opportunities to see how the church is run as we attend meetings such as stake correlation. We work with the stake leaders and get to learn how to successfully run a stake, and even how to unsuccessfully run a stake. We have to sacrifice a lot more of our time, but that doesn't really bother me at all. Being a zone leader gives you such a special opportunity to serve other missionaries on top of the members of your ward and the investigators that you teach. I think I'm healthy... I feel like I always do. I'm eating good enough to get the job done which is all I need. Who needs to feast all the time when there's so much work to do.


My companion Elder Breur is from Cedar Hills Utah. He is a great missionary and is always working hard! We both push each other to be better and are very unified. We have seen some miracles together already and are really enjoying working together. He was a wrestler in high school, and some how we all end up battling at night as we're getting ready for bed. We live with Elder Vidmar and Elder Strong. Elder Strong also went to Orem High, but he graduated a year before me. He's a really cool kid. We have some good fun in our apartmentship.


We met this guy from India yesterday that we started talking to, and then all of a sudden he starts going off about how he's a vegetarian and everyone else should be a vegetarian too. He exclaimed,"You know something, every night 35 million chickens are killed!... slaughtered." It was sooo funny. Maybe you had to be there, but my comp and I thought it was hillarious the way he said it. We quoted him all day long.


LOVE YA!
Elder Tilley

I thought the name Nikki Sixx sounded familiar, like it might be someone famous, so I looked it up. Nikki Sixx was the bassist for Motley Crue. I wonder if this woman was obsessed with him and had her name changed. I sure would like to know the circumstances of thet one!!