I LOVE conference!

Dear Family and friends,

Wow what a week. This week was fetchin great. I love conference. I am sooo positive that Thomas S. Monson is a Prophet of God. He's the MAN! I loved his talk on obedience. It was fantastic. I loved every single talk! But, I guess there were some that stuck out.

 Elder Bednar's was super sick. I love Elder Bednar. Elder Holland always is super good. I can't remember the dudes name but he's a Seventy and talked about mercy, one of my favorites. I love conference, and I'm sad to say, it’s my last one as an authorized representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm so privileged to be a part of this work.

We had a bunch of miracles happen this week. We had Zone Meeting and we had to come up with a zone focus for this month. Last month was New Investigators; it went really well and as a zone we found 120 new investigators for the month in total. That means every companionship averaged 4 new investigators a week, or 25 new investigators for each companionship for the entire month. It was awesome.

This month we are going to focus on “Progressing Investigators”.  To get that rolling we're going to focus on “Members Present Lessons” and, “giving Inspired Commitments”. We, as ZL’s prayed and thought about it, and thought, "Alright we have this plan, it's good it's solid. How do we get the missionaries motivated to DO IT?" We decided to bring in a little backup.  First thing, we're going to fast every Sunday for miracles to happen, specifically, that our investigators progress to baptism. I even fasted lunch, on Sunday and Tuesday; I don't want to hear crap about how it's not possible.

  I fasted on Tuesday that we could get the specific special guests we wanted to, to come and bear their testimonies and give a picker-upper to the missionaries here. We wanted to get President Morris, who is the Stake President and a very successful man. He's a spiritual GIANT. We also wanted a recent convert named Laura Goodrick. I taught her with Elder Webster on exchanges and she was baptized 3 weeks later. When I called them both they were both free on Friday morning. It was sick. President Morris stepped away from his court case for 30 mins and was able to give some great comforting/uplifting words. I then trained on Inspired Commitments. It went just the way I wanted it to, I didn't forget anything I wanted to say, everything was clear, and I firmly believe that it was God acknowledging my fast. It was sooo cool. So, you Diabetics out there, FAST. It works. (Editor’s note: the mother isn’t too keen on this…)

The Flores family watched the afternoon Sunday session of General Conference. They liked it. We haven't had a chance to go to their house since our last lesson with them which was Friday. I kinda wish they would have watched Sunday morning, but, oh well. Last night was super cool; we split up with ward members and got 5 lessons on Sunday night. It's super effective, I think I want to do that like twice a week. Today, an elder jabbed his finger in my eye during basketball and it bleeds from time to time so that's neat. I'm excited to see the miracles come from this week. I love you all.
-Elder Matt Dial