P.U.B.S and Love

You may be wondering why I am emailing on a Wednesday when I usually email on a Tuesday. Well, the reason is this; There was a trainee meeting at the Ox Road Chaple, so while Elder Rickertsen was there, I was on an exchange with Elder Heart in Arlington because he is training as well. We weren't able to get a whole lot done during the exchange, but that is mainly because it was the morning and we usually just do on-line stuff then. So I was with him for about three hours and then their meeting was over. During lunch with Elder Heart, we did go to Cafe Rio! That made the day, right there. The people that work there really like the missionaries (as you can tell, Cafe Rio is a mission favorite). Because they like us so much and we always go there, they gave us a sweet discount! I was pretty stoaked! $4.99 for a Sweet pork Burito! Anyways, that was definately a highlight. After Lunch was over, Elder Rickertsen and Elder Lee met us back at their apartment. Oh!!!!! I should probably mention how we got to Arlington in the first place. THEY GAVE US A CAR!!! As awesome as it was to have been on bike for an enitre year of my mission, it is nice to be able to use a car to get to appointments.

     Alright, now moving on to the rest of the week.There have been a ton of fall-through appointments, but we are keeping our heads up and looking forward to a brighter tomorrow. Elder Rickertsen is getting better at door approaches. We have done a ton of tracting. I have come to really enjoy tracting. I think it is fun to talk to all sorts of new people. Anyways... We had an awesome finding excperience the other night. there is this street that we always accidently turn down and we have to go down the coldesac to get out, but we always are accidently turning down it. we had some down time (an Hour) because of fallthrough appointments and decided to go tract there. It went marvelously! I love those times where you know that you are in the right spot at the right time because the spirit prompted you to be there. While there, we found a member's house, Got atleast 2 return appointments and recieved an invitation to a bible study group that some people from McLean Bible are putting together. The guys name was Zach, so we had that in common. AH!!!! Such an awesome night of finding! One guy's name is Gauge and we plan to teach him really soon, so if you could pray for him, that would be super appreciated.

     And now, the moment you have been waiting for and the answer to the question that everyone has been asking. What is with the title? Pubs and Love? uh...... do I really want to know? yes, yes you do.

P - Pray

U - Use Scriptures

B - Bear Testimony

S - Share Experiences

 and show LOVE to them and the Savior.

all these things are ways to invite the spirit into lessons. they work super well, so if you ever need a little outline for giving a talk or home teaching, this came straight out of PMG, so it should do the trick. This is what I taught durring District meetings yesterday. it seemed to be a good topic to teach about, so I am only hoping that people use it.

     That's about all. Be sure to check out my the DropBox because there are some phots and a recording. Thanks for all you guys do for me and I love you all!

     ~ Elder Zac Snell :)

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The Green Grass Grows All Around

Here we go. I'm gonna checka my e-mails. Oh boy! I have some new
emails to read and one to type up. Let's get started! So, this week
began a new transfer. The transfer meeting was on Thursday and it was
epic! Here's why. I went early for the Trainer's meeting and I learned
how to do just that. It was really great and I learned a lot. That
meeting started at 8:30 and the new missionaries came in around 9:45
by ten, we were all separated out and paired up with our new
companion. I was paired with an Elder from California. He lives a
little north of Sacramento , but went to school at BYU-I. His name is
Elder Rickertsen. He is a great, hard working guy and I am excited to
be companions with him. After being paired up, we had lunch they was
provided by the office missionaries, then went into the cultural hall
where everyone else was seated. We then proceeded to watch Meet The
Mormons. That movie was awesome! I really liked it. I hope that you
guys back home went and watched it. Very well done! After the movie we
began the transfer meeting in the chapel. When it came to when Elder
Rickertsen and I stand up and hug each other, we did and everyone
laughed because of the ironic height difference. Haha! Fun transfer
meeting over all.

    The rest of the week has been pretty great! We found a new
investigator named Steve. He is a cool guy. He was in the military, so
I helped for me to have served in Ft. Belvoir before here. Elder
Rickertsen is doing great. He invited Michael to be baptized the first
time he met him. He is doing good at door approaches as well. Came
pre-trained, he did. I am excited to have him as a companion.

    That's about all for this week. Each week has felt like it just
goes faster and faster. Holy cow! Oh! I also forgot to mention that it
is Elder Rickertsen's birthday on the 16th! I don't know how exactly
we will celebrate it out here, but if am pretty sure we will find a
way!

Love you all!
    ~ Elder Zac Snell

Huzzah For Preparation!

 Alrighty then! This week has been rather fun and stressful! Let's start from the beginning of the week. District Meetings: This week I was really excited to talk to our district about becoming a Consecrated missionary. I also wanted to focus on an importance of having an investigator come to the home of a member for a lesson, in this case, General Confrence! We had the zone portion first and as I turned around at the begining of the meetings, my eyes caught glimpse of something that scares most district leaders around this time... Sister Riggs! She had chose to attend our Zone's meetings that day. The Zone Leaders finished their address to us about what gets us pumped to do missionary work, and dismissed us to our individual districts. I began to head out, but not fast enough, heh.... I hear the phrase that some fear: "I am going to Elder Snell's District meetings." I let out a huge smile as I realized that she would come to my district meeting. Nervous? Actually, not as nervous as I probably should have been. I felt prepared for this one and was just glad that she chose to come to one that I knew for sure would bee good. So, we continue as I teach, the District is very attentive and participates well. Over all, it was a success in my eyes. After the meeting ended, Sister Riggs says, "Elder Snell, Elder Johnson (Zone Leader who also joined in on my district meeting), Will you come talk with me out in the hall?" It was then when my heart sank.... I agreed and quietly shuffled out into the hall and into another room. She then told me that I had a really good district meeting and that she was impressed. I was smiling, of course. After the praise, we talked about some of the things we talked about durring the Leadership Portion of the Meeting prior to the Zone Portion. We probably talked for about fifteen minutes. Anyways, long story short, there are some problems that we need to fix in my district.... 

     Later in the week, we made our usual rounds to people we teach. One of my favorite people to teach is Michael Scott. No, he doesn't know why his name is funny. He is a really solid guy and only needs to stop drinking Coffee to be baptized. Our other friend that we are teaching is Geoff. He is a retired captian for the navy. Way nice guy. I don't think he is going to be baptized in the near future due to some addictions, but I know that with the Lord's help, he can overcome all trials. Please pray for my friends which we are teaching!

     Today (Monday), We took a V.I.P. tour of the Capitol of the USA and it was EPIC!!!! The other Elder's in our appartment have a member who is an intern there and he hooked us up! I have pictures, but I will just need to upload them a later time. It was way fun. I stood on the star where George Washington was supposed to be burried. That building has some amazing history in it.

     Transfers is thursday and I am forsure staying and Elder Cline is most likely leaving. We will be attending the meeting anyways because we are all going to watch Meet the Mormons! I can't wait for that! I hope you all have an EPIC rest of your weeks! Hope yiou enjoyed confrence. I know I did! Love you all!

     ~ Elder Zac Snell :)