Zone Conference with Elder & Sister Gong and President & Sister Moon

Elder Garret Gong, the Asia Area President, came to tour our mission this week and to hold Zone Conferences.  They started out in Vietnam and Northern Cambodia and then on to Phnom Penh for two and then close out in another Province.  The one that we were invited to was held at the building where our office is located.  There were about 54 or so missionaries there at the Zone Conference today.

Elder Gong shared with us that there are approximately 3.5 billion people of the total 7 billion world population are in the Asia Area of the Church.  Of that number, 95% are not Christian, so we have a great work to introduce them to Christ.  He taught the missionaries that there are four important things to do:
     1- If you want more people to teach, talk to more people.  He shared stories about Elder Ballard and President Moon talking to more people.
    2- Great teachers study together to address investigators questions, and to take investigators to the next step.
     3- Find where you teach and teach where you find.  Ask those whom you teach for referrals, they know other potential members.
     4- Be spiritually bold.  We need to be bold through the spirit, angels are backing us.

President and Sister Moon taught us how to use The Book of Mormon to answer the questions that our investigators have.  We were taught that in a survey of recent converts, only 5% had a meaningful experience with The Book of Mormon.  We need to get those that we teach to experience what it is all about.  Read with them and get members to go and read with them.

It was an excellent conference and we felt like we had several revelatory experiences.

In other news; The mission signed the agreement on our new apartment today.  It is only about four blocks from the South Stake Center, so we can walk to it, even if we do get a car.  There is still a lot of stuff that we need to gather up to have the apartment ready for us. We need to go and see what is in storage, that will likely be on Saturday.