Zone Conference

HIIIII!!!!
That’s crazy that my buddy is in your area!!! He served in Taiwan but then had an infection of some sort then got sent to our mission! crazzzzzzyyyyy we were just talking about him too! Small world. It was great to hear that Alex is official now! Way to be!!! I love hearing about what’s going on at home. Chris Hunt is now married...blows my mind. I love life.
This past week was great! we had zone conference that went for 2 days and from what i got out of it is that we need to start working more with the youth who are ready and worthy to serve missions...and if they're not worthy, we need to get them there! there are 550 members in just the one center Donetsk branch but only 70 are active...there are 650 youth in the age ready to serve missions in my whole mission and only 135 of them are active and only 6 of them are on missions, and the majority of them are girls. So, with that i decided to start a mission prep class for all the youth that are of the age and i just got it approved on Sunday!! I felt like i was in ASB all over again, it was fun to brainstorm what could be done to help the youth. This transfer so far is going great. There are a ton of inactive members in my area that we are going to find! My area used to be bumping and now is one of the slowest areas in the mission, but that’s changing little by little. K so here’s the miracle for the week. We just finished service at the Dacha and Valentyn calls us when we just got home and says something about sis Hatch (senior couple) lost her passport and dredit cards and stuff like that and that he wants us to call Elder hatch and tell him about it....so we tried and no one answered. sooooo, i thought that this was weird b/c the Hatchs were in Harkov with president Campero for the Zone conference up there (8 hours away) and then i got a phone call about Sister Hatch's stuff in the Don Bass (where i live) I guess what happened is that her purse was stolen while at the zone conference and everything was taken except for the passport, credit cards, and a planner; the rest was gone. A woman found the "stash" and looked in the planner and saw a number so she called it. That number was to a woman who lives in the Don Bass who was a member of the church but not active. Then the woman in the Don Bass had no idea who Sis Hatch was so she called someone she thought might know....Valentyn. He then called us. He ends up getting a hold of my branch President who was with President Camero in Harkov...making full circle back to Sis. Hatch. They got the personals back to sister Hatch. So here's why it’s a miracle in a few ways. Earlier that day, Valentyn tells us that he had prayed for a miracle but didn’t know what he wanted...he just wanted one. Also, up in Harkov (being missionaries) they prayed specifically that Sister Hatchs things would "fall into good hands". So....everything turned out perfectly AND the lady who found the passport is now taking the lessons....God's plan is perfect. Oh and to top it all off, from the time that they noticed the purse gone and after the prayer that was said....it only took 8 min to locate it...which means God's plan was already deep into action before they even found out that the purse had gone missing....yup, i was blown away too. Anyways the weather here feels like at home and it’s the craziest thing but the snow is coming soon so that will all go away haha, i love you all!
Have a great week!