Zone Conference

> This week we had Zone Conference. One thing that president stressed is waking up at 6:30am. He quoted John 14:15, "If ye love me, keep my commandments" He then said that once we accepted our call waking up at 6:30am is a commandment. "Blessings and miracles happen at 6:30!" I realized that I need to do a better job at getting out of bed at 6:30. Sometimes I lay there for like 15-20mins and sometimes I pop right up. I need to get more consistent at that if I want to see even more miracles on my mission.
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> That's really all I have for this week. I hope yall have a fantastic week and CONTINUE to grow your faith in our Savior, Jesus Christ!
> Elder Grandon

Still in Oakwood

     Well this week we were hecka busy for the last three days of the week! We found 2 new people to add to our teaching pool. Corbin and David! They are college kids from Utah. We made extra sure they weren't members, but they agreed to meet with us and to come to church. As they said "All of their friends are Mormon but we don't really know what they believe" so that's a miracle, and the best part is that they're in the apartment complex! No biking to meet with them! On Saturday we had a baptism after basketball so we had to zoom home and change. Unfortunately he wasn't our investigator but Elder Butterfield did get to baptize him. His name is Ron. He was one of the regulars at Monday basketball. The new saying is "The 3 B's! Basketball Brings Baptisms!" He's a really cool guy! Hopefully we see him today at basketball! 

     That's really it! I hope y'all have a fantastic week and CONTINUE to grow in your faith of our Savior, Jesus Christ!

   Elder Grandon 

Oakwood

> This week was kinda a blur so don't expect a super long email. We were given the assignment to give Come, Follow Me's to the less actives in our complex and we finally got around to that! We didn't catch anyone but we still dropped off a copy for them with a letter from our Elders Quorum Presidents contact information. Hopefully they contact him so we can get the ball rolling and get them back to church.
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> We also had interviews this week and they went pretty well. President looked super tired. he was just in Alamosa the day before so he had to ZOOM up here for this zones interviews. That's like a 4 and a half hour drive. He said he didn't get home till around 11. He also had dinner down there so it was kinda on him, but still!!!
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> That's all folks! I hope you have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of our Lord and Savior
> Elder Grandon

Oakwood Week... I don't even remember

> This week was kinda boring but exciting at the same time. Well I finally got a bike so thanks to my parents! Love you guys! It rides really smooth but it did take a little adjustment but that's normal. We finally got in 2 new member lesson with Dyutoe so he's just that much closer to being done. We invited him to our dinner with the Bishop and met with him on Sunday at the Miles house then had lunch afterwards. This guys testimony is so strong in the gospel he almost makes me look like the recent convert! He's awesome.
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> Last week was transfers and we got like a whole new district! Elder Butterfield and I were the only companionship that stayed together. We got a new sister and 2 new Zone Leaders, and a new district leader. A lot of change, but I've served around the new Zone Leaders when they weren't ZLs and they're both super dope!
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> Easter was super good! We had 2 dinners(in true missionary fashion)! We probably could've had one but we told one dinner that we had an "appointment" about 2 hours later, we just didn't tell them what kind of appointment. LOL whoops ;) We had so much food and so much leftovers. It's super nice. we're set for like the rest of the week!
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> Well that's really all I got! i hope y'all have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of our Lord and Savior!
> Elder Grandon

This Week in Oakwood

> This week we were hecka busy. We finished going through the whole area and visited all the less actives. A lot weren't home but a lot of them were home! We talked to a couple families about General Conference(which defiantly feels like it was yesterday and not a week ago) and ended up talking to 3 or 4 families for the whole day. It was pretty awesome!
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> Yesterday we had an "open" sacrament meeting. It was kinda like Fast and Testimony meeting but we were instructed to give our feelings about Conference. Kinda near the end our recently baptized convert, Uydoe(you-dough) got up and bore a super strong testimony about how General Conference was one of his converting tools, and how he had already defended this church to his Uncle and Aunt. It was very powerful and spiritual!
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> That's really it for this week! I hope you all have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of our savior!
> Elder Grandon

Conference

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> This week went by super fast. We stopped by all the less active in our area and reminded them to watch General Conference. We got Francis to watch it but we didn't watch it with her. She said she enjoyed it so hopefully we can start to teach her.
> That's really all for this week. Have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of Jesus Christ
> Elder Grandon

Oakwood Week 7

> This week was full of stop bys and basketball games! All this week we stopped by some of the previous investigators the sisters found. Almost none of them answered or weren't home. We tried those same 12 or 13 houses all week! The only one that answered was this single mother named Shareea. She is super strong in her desire to know more about the gospel. The only problem we have is that she works all the time and is exhausted by the end of the day. Along with that she has to come home and take care of 2 firecrackers. Two twin boys that are 4 years old. They're super fun to be around and they're hilarious! So hopefully we can find a time that works for her.
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> On Tuesday we had Zone Conference. It was super spiritual and very rewarding. We talked about how to get more people to church, then we split into districts and role played that. We of course had different scenarios and we were told not to tell them why we wouldn't come to church. It was really fun to try to decipher why they wouldn't come. It's really humbling to go through these Zone Conferences because even if you feel really good at your "missionary craft" these type of role plays expose what you can work on. Really beneficial! 10/10 would recommend!
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> That's really all I have from this past week. I hope y'all have a fantastic week and continue to grow in you faith of the SAVIOR!
> Elder Grandon