Conference and Driving

Welp, another week full of new people, crazy experiences and more responsibilities. A. Elder Palmer from the Seventy showed up out of nowhere this weekend and was presiding at our stake conference..... wow that was awesome. But funny story... all of the missionaries showed up for the leadership part of the conference to find out that actually the missionaries were not invited, so we ended up doing a blitz, or all of the missionaries that were there in our area (way far from their areas) went out and did contacts until the adult session that night. Anyways, one hour later we had done over 30 new contacts..... haha, I think this weeks going to be good.

Also this week I was officially given a new responsibility..... Zone Driver..... hahaha because the licenses of the zone leaders expired. Soooo now i am driving manual for the first time in my life (yeah i know pretty sad but its going good) on the left side of the flippin road... hahaha its so weird but way fun. Just having to stay up way late and wake up super early has been destroying me. But overall it's been way amazing.

Just a spiritual thought for the day. Our stake president gave a talk in the conference about a gigantic rock and a man who was told to push this rock every day of his life. He pushed and pushed every day but never even moved it an inch. One day he apologized to the person in charge, but this person responded, i told you to push the rock, not move it. The purpose was never to move the rock but to help you gain the strength and the muscles to do other things for me in the future. Just like this man who pushed and pushed but always felt bad for not moving the rock, we all have challenges that we will always try to overcome but sometimes we just never move the rock, what is important isn't the results it's the true effort.

Love you all, the mission is great and I haven't died yet on the other side of the road.

Love yall
Elder Thornton
                                       

               Jonny, Elder Moreira, Zone Leaders - Elder Godfrey and Elder Bailey

Hayden, Elder Mark Palmer and Jonny at Stake Conference