Nov 20th 2017

Hey Y'all!

It's been a crazy hot minute here in Kentuckiana. We had a lot happen
this week.

Zone Conference was this week. It was great. We had to drive to
Evansville (2hrs) in the pouring rain. But it was so fun. President
Hughes is the best and we had some great trainings. We also got to
switch cars with the Arcadia elders. Poor suckers. So we got rid of
the menace of a car. It was kind of interesting for a while because
everything in the new car was in Spanish. Luckily Sister Mitchell knew
enough to find and switch the settings. And ended the day with chick
fil a.

We blitzed the area with the elders this week too. Elder Woodside our
district leader, Elder Herman, and Elder Markus came down. We had a
big comp Study where we practiced teaching them the Plan of Salvation,
and then we went out and worked our area. It was great. Sister
Mitchell and I went up to a trailer park area and really prayed to
find someone who would listen. As we got out we found a shiny heads up
penny. And we ended up finding multiple people that set return
appointments with us. It was the most success we've seen in weeks. We
ended the day with 5 new investigators and multiple other return
appointments. When we were talking about how crazy that success was
after weeks of trying and nothing happening, sister Mitchell said it
was "a prayer and a penny".

We had Stake Conference this weekend, where they reorganized the stake
presidency. It was a ton of fun getting to sing in the choir. We had
two members of the 70 come and Elder Kopischke is German so Sister
Mitchell got to talk to him for a while. The spirit was so strong as
he spent the hours talking about our need to be truly converted to the
gospel and how to help others. It was awesome being able to watch it
from the stand. There were many people who's hearts were touched and
it was cool to see how the spirit worked. The gospel is awesome!

Also if y'all didn't get to see the face to face with Elder Oaks and
Elder Ballard, you need to. It was amazing and it's awesome to hear
them speak of topics and concerns very specific to many young adults
today. Pretty cool.

So exciting for thanksgiving this week. There are so many great things
I am so grateful for. All of you are definitely included in that. Have
a wonderful weekend!

I love you!!

Sister Hoyt