Zone Conference and R.M.

Today we got to go to zone conference! We are blessed to have a wonderful mission president who gave us inspired council and direction. He is very concerned because in January we only had 55 baptisms; which is the lowest we've had for a long time. So he taught a lot about having faith in Jesus Christ and how through exercising we can find more people to teach and bring to the waters of baptism. We, as a mission, also have been perhaps focusing so much on rescuing the less active that we've forgotten that our primary purpose is to people to teach and baptize. Anyway hopefully this was just a blip and we can do better next month. After zone conference we went up to the temple and picked up Elder Jamboy who just returned from the Cagayen de Oro mission and lives in our branch. We took him to Pres. Stucki's house to get released and then took him home. He is the only member of his family and they are Jehovah's Witnesses and were not at all happy with him joining the church and then going on a mission. Kinda sad; he never got one letter from them his whole mission. He was excited to see them but wasn't sure if he even had a place to sleep. His really strong though and was a great missionary so hope he'll be alright. We were grateful for the chance to pick him up and get to know him.We are so inspired by his faith and dedication to the gospel!