Sunday Surprise!

Last Sunday we had a church tour lined up with a young girl named
Shamaya. We were stoked out of our minds for this tour because 1) her
name is Shamaya 2) She had corn rows and 3) the young single adults
have a family home evening every Sunday and she was going to go. Well
we waited for her.....and she never came. But as we were waiting
outside this young man came walking by, so naturally we bounded over
to him and invited him to see inside the church. His name is James and
he was super cool! Pray for him that he will come to institute.

Yesterday we had MTEs and I was parked up with my good friend Elder
Hansen! We came into the mission together and we were in the same zone
to start our mission! We had such a blast and got to meet a ton of new
people in our area. The other cool thing was that we had members with
us for almost the entire day, and we could see how our lessons were
really more effective and spiritual when a member was there testifying
along side us.

Last Thursday we had a splits/blitz activity for our area! Our stake
president requested all missionaries in the zone that didn't have a
member present to come and go on splits with the members to visit
members that needed a visit or that nobody in the ward knew. Ten
missionaries came and afterward we had a ton of referrals to go
contact, such was super cool too! Normally you only blitz areas that
are struggling, but this was well appreciated nonetheless!

Saturday morning about half of the zone went down to Calexico to
participate in a "Clean Up Calexico" project. The lady in charge asked
for the missionaries to be the supervisors because we were the
"adults"........... ADULTS!?!?!? Now that's hilarious.

This week has been a huge testimony to me about how it's not the name
on the top of the plaque that matters, but the name that's in the
middle. We as missionaries really aren't anything special, but when we
truly have faith in Jesus Christ is when miracles begin to occur. It's
all about the Atonement.

I love you all!
Elder Dahl