Week #72 - Jungle O Fun

Hey everyone!

Not a whole lot to update on this week, but things went well. Devin's baptism is still set for January 2nd (My 18 Month mark!) and we had some excellent lessons this week. We also got to clean out an apartment of two elders who are going home together.

We had leadership council on Friday and it was amazing as usual. We discussed how to improve things in the mission and talked about some new things we'll be doing/focusing on, President blew our minds with some scriptures, and then at the end all of the new and departing zone leaders bore their testimonies. It was really powerful. It was also kinda crazy because I'm rarely brought to tears in a meeting regardless of how spiritual it is (just not the real emotional type) but this one I was, and during the last testimony the spirit basically told me to keep my composure because I was going to be asked to say the closing prayer. Lo and behold, the last elder finishes, President says and few short words and then "Elder Balagna, will you say the closing prayer for us?" It was a great experience. Not only was I prepared to speak despite my emotion, it was probably one of the most heartfelt prayers I've ever given in a large group. Long story short: good meeting.

We got a new ward mission leader!!! It's also the same guy who had us over for Thanksgiving. He's going to be a huge help and already has tons of ideas for how to get things moving the way that they should. We're so excited! Not that we didn't like our last one.

We had a great and full gospel principles class in church yesterday. Always nice to see a full room for that one. Our investigators all stayed for the full three hours and loved it so that's always a major plus.

Life is great, thanks for the mail, Merry Christmas soon and the gospel's true!!

Much Love,
Elder B