Sent: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 1:35 pm
Subject: Conferencia
Hello,
Wasn't conference pretty sweet? I definitely appreciate it more as a missionary. For the Saturday morning session we went to the Bing's house. They are the family who the English elders live with. We went a little early and they made us an awesome breakfast with eggs, bacon, sausage, french toast etc. I don't think I had had a warm breakfast since the MTC so that was quite enjoyable. A little before the afternoon session was going to start we went over to Pedro's to see if he had watched any of the previous session. When we got there he was just getting out of bed but he invited us to just watch the session there with him. He would pause it every now and then and ask questions so it was good we were there to help him out. It was cool to hear both Elder Packer and Nelson mention the Word of Wisdom which is one of the things Pedro is struggling with. After about 45 minutes in he paused it and asked a lengthy series of questions and we got into a pretty big discussion about a variety of gospel subjects. By the end we were talking about the Plan of Salvation and he was crying about how his trials were too much and that his kids shouldn't have to live in a bad situation because of his choices. It was pretty sad to see a 39 year old crying about his divorce and his kid's situation but we told him the only answer is through the gospel and he needed to live it in order to see the blessings of it.
Sunday morning we initially didn't know where we were going to watch conference. The Gibson's (who we live with) were planning on going to Salt Lake to watch it but a large amount of snow changed their mind. Thus, we ended up watching both sessions with them.
Thursday we had an awesome Zone Conference. The talks and trainings were great. A ward relief society always provides lunch for us and I think my favorite part of zone conference is when we all finish eating and the relief society introduces themselves and we say thanks. They never know what is coming next but President counts us down and we all sing "Called to Serve." It is little funny how quickly they all start to cry as we sing. The majority of them usually have their own sons or daughters out on missions so they don't stand a chance of not crying.
We had a district lunch this week and I think we have the most diverse district in the mission. In the district there are representatives from South Africa, Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, and Spain. Its pretty cool to hear everyones background and how their families came into the church.
Not too much new news about investigators. We taught Fernando about the 10 commandments and he didnt know that worshipping idols was bad. We are working on clarifying the difference between traditions and customs and doctrine and truth. Hopefully he'll get it.
I hope you are doing great and had an excellent time listening to the chosen leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ.
Love, Elder Clark
Subject: Conferencia
Hello,
Wasn't conference pretty sweet? I definitely appreciate it more as a missionary. For the Saturday morning session we went to the Bing's house. They are the family who the English elders live with. We went a little early and they made us an awesome breakfast with eggs, bacon, sausage, french toast etc. I don't think I had had a warm breakfast since the MTC so that was quite enjoyable. A little before the afternoon session was going to start we went over to Pedro's to see if he had watched any of the previous session. When we got there he was just getting out of bed but he invited us to just watch the session there with him. He would pause it every now and then and ask questions so it was good we were there to help him out. It was cool to hear both Elder Packer and Nelson mention the Word of Wisdom which is one of the things Pedro is struggling with. After about 45 minutes in he paused it and asked a lengthy series of questions and we got into a pretty big discussion about a variety of gospel subjects. By the end we were talking about the Plan of Salvation and he was crying about how his trials were too much and that his kids shouldn't have to live in a bad situation because of his choices. It was pretty sad to see a 39 year old crying about his divorce and his kid's situation but we told him the only answer is through the gospel and he needed to live it in order to see the blessings of it.
Sunday morning we initially didn't know where we were going to watch conference. The Gibson's (who we live with) were planning on going to Salt Lake to watch it but a large amount of snow changed their mind. Thus, we ended up watching both sessions with them.
Thursday we had an awesome Zone Conference. The talks and trainings were great. A ward relief society always provides lunch for us and I think my favorite part of zone conference is when we all finish eating and the relief society introduces themselves and we say thanks. They never know what is coming next but President counts us down and we all sing "Called to Serve." It is little funny how quickly they all start to cry as we sing. The majority of them usually have their own sons or daughters out on missions so they don't stand a chance of not crying.
We had a district lunch this week and I think we have the most diverse district in the mission. In the district there are representatives from South Africa, Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, and Spain. Its pretty cool to hear everyones background and how their families came into the church.
Not too much new news about investigators. We taught Fernando about the 10 commandments and he didnt know that worshipping idols was bad. We are working on clarifying the difference between traditions and customs and doctrine and truth. Hopefully he'll get it.
I hope you are doing great and had an excellent time listening to the chosen leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ.
Love, Elder Clark
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