Saturday, April 9, 2016

Conference Weekend!!!

Wow this week was spiritually awesome and mind blowing. I remember how I was for Conference weekend and what it meant to me. Before the mission I would rather be with my friends or doing something else rather than watching on Saturday and how on the Sunday sessions I would close my eyes and fall asleep through almost all of it. This time though I couldn't get enough and I was on the edge of my chair the whole time because now more than ever I understand the importance of listening to our living Prophet, Apostles, and church leaders. The power of Conference is not just for the members, but for everyone else. We invited our investigators to come and watch with us and they forgot to change their clocks because the time change so they came super late, but the one talk that they got to listen too was the talk that this mother needed to hear. We later talked with her about this being her answer and invited her to get baptized on April 30th. She said yes so we are going to be working with her. I know that this wasn't a coincidence that they forgot to change their clocks and and came late to Conference just to hear one talk. The hand of the Lord was definitely in this and he knows who is ready and when the best time is for them to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

Right know we are working on finding more people to teach and the other day a man answered the door, looked us up and down and said, "You guys are Mormons right?" We told him yes and that we are the missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He then told us that we are the worst of the worst the ugliest church he has ever seen. We asked him why and he told us he knew some people from our church that were terrible people and were doing bad things. Then my comp explained to him that you can't blame the church for other peoples actions because the world has bad people in it no matter the religion or place. My comp then told him that without a doubt your church has some very bad people in it too, but we don't judge your church because of these people. The man then realized that his accusations against the church were wrong and he totally changed his attitude with us. We have a appointment with him this week so we will see how it goes.

The other day some kid on our street had a birthday party in the middle of the street and here when someone has a party they get a giant tent and put it up in the middle of the street so no cars can pass that way. Anyways  the music was super loud and it went on till about 8 in the morning the next day so that was kinda fun thorough out the night. 

Anyways that's about all that has happened here lately I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week.