The Worth of A Soul

I was going to title this one "There and Back Again: An Elder's Journey" , but I decided that would be a little cliche. 

     Wow...... I honestly don't know what to write about.... Is this real? Am I really going home this week? Do I finally get to hug my family and friends who I only get to think about while in Virginia? These are the questions and thoughts that go through my head as I write this final email home. This last Sunday, we had a mission homecoming talk and they had more time than he thought. So, with ten minutes left, the First counselor asked the full time missionaries to come up and bare their testimonies. He made sure to let everyone know that Elder Scholes and I go home on Friday. We went up and had the privilege of sharing our thoughts about our missions. 

     As I spoke, I remembered a scripture that President Hogge shares with me before I left on my mission. D&C 18:10, 15-16. In these scriptures, it tells about the worth of a soul to God and how great shall be our joy if we save but one soul. That one soul, is me. This is what I testified about to our ward. Anyways... I won't spoil any of my homecoming talk. If you have any questions about any part of my mission, you can ask me on Friday or Sunday. Maybe on Saturday... 

     One of the highlights this week was goat wrangling! We have a service project in Manassas. It was tons of fun! Our companionship's job was to catch the goats put them in pens and then look at their number and see if they were sold or not. It was a lot of jumping, diving, tackling, and, getting scratched up. It was really comical watching a goat drag Elder Hall around. He turned around and tackled the thing afterwards. Haha! That was a fun day. 

     Anyways. I really don't know what else to write.... Well, I guess I will see all of you in about four days. I leave on Friday morning and will arrive in the SLC airport at 13:14. That is almost exactly two years from when I was dropped off at the MTC. Crazy huh? I can't wait to see you all there! Love you!

For the last time, this is Elder Snell. Signing out.

~ Elder Zac Snell

Picture from Elder Hall taken Today. Centerville Zone. Of course Zac is the tallest by sitting on an Elder's shoulders. 

To Convert an Island

    This week was pretty good. It was a lot of finding and teaching potentials. We have found a couple new investigators as well! We also adopted someone from the Centreville 1st ward. We are now a trio and covering the Centreville 1st and 2nd. I will send a video of him to you. He is a funny guy. His name is Elder Scholes. He is from Rigby Idaho, sound familiar? Same place Elder Hall is from. Cool huh!? I thought it was pretty funny.

     We had a really awesome lesson yesterday. A member invited us over to their house to teach a lesson to their friend. He is a really nice guy and is super interested in family history work. Apparently, his family is from is island somewhere and President Woodruff went on a mission to and he converted half the island. He was very curious with why hey converted and what message they loved. We shared with him he Restoration. Elder Hall just took charge like a boss and taught like a pro. Elder Scholes added his testimony with awesome personal stories and I just backed things up with scripture. The lesson went super well and he asked if he could attend one of our services. I hope he continues to learn about the church and gains his own testimony. Probably the best lesson this week.

     Well here you have it! How to convert and Island. Teaching them the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I love it here! Thanks again for all the support you give me! 

See you next week.......

~ Elder Zac Snell

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