Week 42: We Met Henry Eyring?!?!?1

David's Baptism

What is up y'all?

I've had an excellent week. Truly magnificent. Lots of great things happening in good old Vineyard. It was dummy hot this week too. High 90s all week. We look like ballers biking in the heat though.

David did in fact get baptized last Wednesday! It was a really great service and everything went very smooth. When we talked to him a couple days later in another lesson with him, he said that it was all very reaffirming. He said he believed it was all true before before he got baptized, but that actually getting baptized made him feel so much better about it all. He's so solid and we're really excited to keep working with him.

We also had Zone Conference this week! It was seriously so legendary getting to see all the homies again. Old comps, old district members, old comps' new comps, and new people too. Zone Conferences in the UOM are split up by northern and southern halves of the mission, and this was my first ever ZC in the southern half, so lots of new people! It was also President Treadway's last ZC before he and Sister Treadway finish their mission, so it was a little sad. It sounds like there's gonna be lots of other meetings/conferences this month to transition into the new mission president though. My new mission president will be President Evanson, and he's from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He also sounds really awesome.

President Treadway put out a new member mission for us to start sharing, which was awesome because we've had the last one for like 5 months. It talks a lot about being guided by the Spirit and how sharing the gospel can be as simple as being at the right place at the right time. There's a story about Jesus travelling 32 miles in a day to city called Nain to raise the son of a widow from the dead, and how he really was at the right place at the right time. It's found in Luke 7, and if you want to do your own research, then you can find out that Nain is about 31.7 miles from Capernaum in Israel.

Also, we met Henry Eyring! Unfortunately, not the one you're probably thinking of. His grandson, Henry C. Eyring, just moved into our stake with his wife and kids, and we have a member message with them on Sunday. So yes, the subject line of my email was in fact, clickbait....

The other people we're teaching are doing great too. Sley told us that she wants to join the church but just doesn't know how! Since she's from Haiti she asked for a Book of Mormon in French and in Creole. She's making a lot of good progress and it's been really cool getting to teach her.

Also, if any of you could pray for my Grandpa Snyder, that would be great. He just got diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer that seems pretty serious, so any prayers would mean a lot.

Anyway, thanks so much for reading my emails! The mission is hard and it's pretty repetitive, but weeks like these can be real standouts that make it all worth it. I know that following Jesus Christ and being a member of His true church is the only way to have lasting happiness in life. There is so much to be gained and enjoyed in life, and the only way to have the most complete joy possible is through faith in Jesus Christ and living how He wants us to live. The knowledge and actions that come with that are how we can find enduring joy in our lives. I am so grateful to have been blessed with the gospel in my life, and to now have the opportunity to help others to have the same blessings.

I love you all!

Elder Snyder