Toone in with the Spirit

Dear Family!
President and Sister Toone arrived this morning! They are wonderful! President Toone is huge though. He is exactly 7ft tall. Big guy, happy and humble. We love them already. They're from American Fork, UT but originally he's from Alberta and she's from California. Everyone is so excited to meet them and work with them. This week will be a little bit crazy because we'll be visiting all 8 zones in our mission tomorrow and Wednesday. Then Thursday we have MLC, which will be a first time for our mission president. But Elder Perez and I are really excited for everything that awaits us this month. It's going to be a great experience and I think I'm going to learn a lot. 
I should tell you briefly about what happened yesterday in our YSA ward during the 3rd hour. (Oh, we had 2 visa-waiters going to Peru spend the day with us yesterday and it turned out to be a blast! We took them to the airport this morning and off they went.) So our bishop took the time and really taught us powerfully about the need and the how of being a member-missionary. He rolled out so many questions that he had previously come up with that we can use to start conversations about the Church. Some were simple questions like, "Have you been to mormon.org before?" "Do you know anyone who converted to Mormonism?" "Have you ever seen a Book of Mormon before?" Just a ton of simple questions that you could ask to anyone. He really made the point that we need to make everything a missionary opportunity, even cleaning the church on Saturday mornings, and participating in the choir. It made me think about how I can be better as a full-time missionary and as well among my friends from home. The phrase Ask, Seek, Knock has come to mean more recently. I believe that that is the pattern if we want to have missionary experiences in our lives. Ask for them in prayer, seek for them, and knock on someone else's bubble by inviting them to do things that will expose them to the Church and help them increase their faith. I hope that you all pray for missionary experiences and can recognize them this week as they come. I love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Gathro