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Aug. 22, 2011...Dear Family,



I got my new companion on Wednesday. He is Elder Jacobs from Cedar Hills, UT. He has been out for almost 19 months. He actually came out with Elder Failner. Speaking of which, Elder Failner got transferred to Kingsland, GA and Elder Wise got transferred to Palatka, FL. The last few days I was with Elder Failner and Elder Wise went really well. We found four new investigators, three are in the same family, on Tuesday! It was really great finding and teaching them. Looking back over the time I have been with each of them, three months with Elder Failner and six weeks with Elder Wise, I have learned a lot and seen some great growth in my testimony. I really appreciate all the things each of them taught me.


My time with Elder Jacobs started off well. We've been able to have some great lessons and do some really good things. We're still the zone leaders here in the Lake City Zone. Elder Jacobs was actually an Assistant to the President just before he got here. It's been fun picking his brain. The first few days were definitely different. It's a big change adjusting to a new companion and also having to get used to having only one companion again. When there were three of us we had a lot more opportunities to teach people. However, one of the good things about having one companion is that there is more opportunities for each of us to teach. There are just different challenges associated with each situation. I'm happy to say though that we've been able to continue to have success. Again that's one things I really like about being a zone leader. Whomever I get as a companion is going to be a good missionary.


Verndale is doing well still. He has made quite a bit of progress, and he came to church yesterday. That makes it two weeks in a row! He's been welcomed into the ward really well too. It's strange to think that we've only been teaching him for about two weeks. It feels like it has been much longer. That's probably because we see him for at least a few minutes just about every day. The other investigators we have are coming along too. Unfortunately Bridget is still M.I.A. I continue to pray that she will show up one of these days. Yesterday Elder Jacobs and I had a great faith building experience. Lately we have been praying to be led to the elect and to find them in pretty much every prayer. Well yesterday Elder Jacobs felt like we should go and see a member in the ward. He felt like they might know someone who is elect. We followed the prompting and went to see the member. We were only able to talk to them at the door, but they didn't have much for us. For the backup plan we were going to tract around that member. We were going and about to head down a street, but then I felt a prompting to go down a different street. We followed it and we found a really great investigator named Jason. He is a single father of two, and loves Christ and God. He's been active in his faith for about three years, but is very open and willing to find out if what we share is true. He is even related to a member in our ward! He's going out of town for a few weeks, but he committed to read each day from the Book of Mormon. We're really excited to be able to teach him. If he keeps his commitment to read every day then it's going to be great to see what happens.


Lately I've been thinking/studying more about prayer. I started doing this because over the last week and a half or so it seems like prayer comes up more than it ever has for me. Many of the scriptures I read end up talking about prayer. I figured that was a sign that I need to study prayer and improve my prayers. I've really enjoyed studying it so far. For part of my study I read a talk titled, Using the Supernal Gift of Prayer, and it's by Elder Richard G. Scott. It's a really amazing talk. I will put a link to it at the bottom of this email. Read it!


That's all for now. I hope everything is going really well for all of you!


Love Always, Elder Zachery Snow




https://lds.org/general-conference/2007/04/using-the-supernal-gift-of-prayer?lang=eng