Hello friends and family:
It appears that is yet again a great Monday out here in the best mission in the world! The last week has been fairly boring. Just up to business as usual. Seeing less-actives and trying very hard to get new people to teach. It is very rare to find people that are interested at all, let alone
willing to have you come back and continue teaching.
We got hit by yet another snowstorm on this weekend, it was about 7 inches here at the chapel which isn't too shabby, the nice thing is that since it is warming up it melts off the pavement and sidewalk fairly quickly, I am told that the snow will probably be here until about mid May, kinda disappointing.
Of course everyone is talking about our wonderful conference weekend!
Here at the branch Elder Palmer and I were able to watch the satellite broadcast at the church for all the sessions. it was just me and him all alone at the church for all of conference, with the exception of the priesthood session where a bunch of people came, that was nice.
I really loved the Saturday afternoon talk by Elder Hales. I can't really explain why, but developing trust in the Lord and His commandments is something that as a missionary I have been nurturing alot.
I also really like Elder Clayton's talk about doing small and simple acts of faith everyday to overcome the challenges that we face in our life. I don't recall if he made reference to this scripture in his talk but it reminded me of Alma's council to his son Helaman in Alma 37:6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say into you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and smalls means in many instances doth confound the wise."
I know that it is by doing the small and simple will of the Lord that great blessings come that we may not even recognize.
I just remembered a humbling experience that I had earlier this week. Elder Palmer and I were invited by one of our investigators to attend a discussion and gathering at his church. That would be all good and fine, but his church is actually a large house in Lancaster that has about 3 different families living there, needless to say it was a bit daunting to attend, but we did anyway, it ended up being a really cool experience and we were able to share a lot of our beliefs. The spirit was definitely there.
After this experience I apologized to the Lord for being too swift to judge his children. That is another thing that I felt a lot of people talked about in conference this weekend. Seeing people through the Savior's eyes and acting toward them in charity and brotherly kindness. I think that it is definitely something that I struggle with and I know that this was an excellent and humbling experience for me.
That is about all I have for this week, I hope that all of you are doing well
and that you know that I love you.
have a great rest of your week!
until next time!
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