Hello my dear Family!

I am super happy to hear all of that! I love being able to hear from you every week! It always makes me super happy! And I already feel very surreal…….. like a twilight zone! I miss you very much and I love you with my whole heart! I am approaching my two month mark and it feels like I just walked out the door! Holy Cow, so much has happened! And I cant wait for more news on everything which will be happening soon. 

I am having lots of super fun experiences here in Roanoke! That young man whom I was talking about earlier has not yet been baptized. He just two days ago went out to school at Campbell University here in NC so we had to do a transfer of missionaries but he is coming back up here to be baptized on the 24th of this month or the 7th of next month! He actually came with me on a nonmember exchange of sorts and we had a lesson which was so super powerful! He has been progressing so very much and he cant wait to be baptized! I have also been teaching a man and his son who are just as close to being baptized, he is a former member and his son has not been baptized but they are very close! I am super excited! I have placed about 13-14 Book of Mormons and I have exhausted all of the Book of Mormons in my house!!! Yeah, it has been super spiritual to be out here with real investigators and real door rejections and really hardcore Baptists! I use to feel bad for those Russian missionaries and those Chinese missionaries but I would like to see them try to convert a stanch Baptist…………yeah……….but it is very powerful to see the fruits of my labor! I have a ward of about 70 active members and all but 30 of them are strong convert of ten to twenty years ago or such!!! Last night I attended a ward mission fireside and it was an amazing experience! I love the people here and am looking forward to continue to serve them! They have accepted me as a member of there family and I can see that they trust me and love me very much! I bare strong testimony and I serve with love and that is the key to having a lasting relationship with others! I have been on four or five different exchanges since coming here and I have met and got to know many of the missionaries in my district and my zone, two days ago I went to Goldsboro to exchange with my zone leader and I like him lots! While I was at the Goldsboro home I saw a picture that made me stop in my tracks! Mother, you should look up the picture by D. O. Christensen in 2002, it is a picture of two missionaries getting ready for the day and one of them is looking in the mirror and that missionary looks a lot like me! It was crazy; you should look at it and let me know that I am not crazy! I have been having so many serving and teaching opportunities out here and they come more and more every week! I love being here!

So here are my scripture of the week! I am sorry if I have already sent some but these really came to me this week!

-Romans 15:13

-Mosiah 28:3

-Alma 27: 24-26, 31

-D&C 78: 17-19 a personal favorite of mine!

-D&C 76:1-10

I want all of you to think of these and how they apply to you there in Idaho! And how my amazing family can be further strengthened! So how has your reading been going? I hope you have at least read my homework assignments to you! I usually send them cause I have a feeling that you need them, call it inspiration if you will but I have been having some promptings lately! Will you all please make a commitment with me, yourselves, and with our Heavenly Father that no matter what, you will do Family Home evening every week and will try to fit scripture study in as much as possible! Being here makes me love my family so very much and I would hate to find out that something has been keeping them from upholding their legacy!! :D I love you with my whole heart and I am actually getting choked up right now while I am typing this cause I Love You So Very Much!! There is only one thing in this whole world that would keep me from being there with you and that would be this call to serve, so lets both make the best of what we know we must do cause the Lord only wants the absolute best for us and that can only be found when we serve him and when we grow spiritually! I want you all to read these talks that I read this week, you kept popping into my mind as I read! The first is “These Things I Know” by President Packer and the second is “A Sure Foundation” by Bishop Dean M. Davies! Read and ponder and ACT on your promptings, I want a report from all of you in the next letter, if it is not there then I will not respond……….maybe……..!! I love you all so very much!  

You should look up the “missionaries epistle to the dead letter writers” written by the San Antonio missionaries a few years ago!! I like it a lot!

Thanks for the pictures!  

I Love My Family Beyond Description! Have a great week and review what I have asked, and don’t forget to read, pray, ponder, study, love, learn, laugh, play, and grow!

Lots of Love from your missionary

Elder Zonts