October 2, 2017

October 2, 2017

Hey Family! Happy Late Birthday first, to Shaun, and now Happy Early Birthday to Mom!!

We got to watch conference! This conference was really good! I don’t know if I am just paying more attention now, but I felt like this conference was extremely inspired. 

This week was a good week. We pretty much did a lot of explaining about Prophets to help people prepare for the conference. We used a lot, Amos 3:7, 1 Nephi 22:1-2, and the story of Naaman in 2 Kings chapter 5. I really love learning about the prophets and I think it’s such a special moment that we get to have every 6 months that the prophets and apostles can talk to us.

One Elder in the district (Elder Utai) helped me realize the calling of the apostles and prophets when I was verifying with them through a call one night. He said “Did you see how the prophets and apostles aren’t afraid of anything?” And I was like, “Yeah!”  It’s so true, they have such amazing testimonies, and really when we can listen to what they have to say, we know that they are called of God. They talk with such power and authority because they know that Christ Lives and that this is his Church. 

It made me reflect on how we should be as missionaries, also being witnesses that we have a Savior, and that he is Jesus Christ. I loved all the analogies that they had in the conference.  I really liked the talks of Dallin H Oaks, Tadd R Callister, and Deiter F Uchdorf, but there were so many other great ones.   I just told my companion that I wish I had the time to re-watch all of them.  And, well, I hope you guys feel the same way. :)

This week was good though. A pretty normal week. I had exchanges with Elder Stocks and we did a lot. Went to an area where we hadn’t gone a lot to contact. On the way saw 3 dead dogs. Saw a big spider, too. We walked a lot because pretty much all the appointments went through, but that happens sometimes. We cooked chicken milanesa for lunch (it was one kilo) and then we had a lot left for dinner, too!

My companion likes to cook, and we have been cooking a lot of things with noodles. We made a hamburger helper type of thing last night and that was pretty good!

All in all we have been good!

Here is Elder Andersen and me with a Paris Saint Germain Jersey. We went to the fair and bought one.

Then this is another picture of us today. We are writing a little bit earlier because we are going to go to San Javier where there is the statue of Christ. We are going with Pedro and some other Elders.

Then this is a picture of me with Elder Stock in exchanges. We had quite the little adventure.

Here’s a huge spider that we found in the church. There is a shoe by it (not mine...) for the scale.