Well, this week was pretty full. We had three days of conferences. If you thought two days wasn´t enough, think again. The conferences were great and I´ll give a little insight.
The first was Zone Conference with President Fernandes. He talked a lot about working with the members, but the part that stuck out the most for me was how we should teach. This was a good, better, best relation. He talked about the first lesson that we leave with our investigator where we introduce the ideas of living prophets, the Book of Mormon and baptism. He told us that this is what we need to teach so that people can know that the church is true. But, he invites us to teach along with this faith, repentance, and baptims. The two paths will lead to baptism, but for different reasons. the first for the knowledge that the church is true and the second because of our love for Christ. When these two paths are brought together someone can truly be converted. The other part that stuck out to me was the pizza and açaí.
Second was the General Conference. It was a great opportunity to listen to a prophet, apostles and leaders in the church. I have really come to love conference and it passes very fast. Unfortunately, there are so many good things at once that many times I forget a lot of what was said. Because of this I find it very useful to study these messages individually afterwards. These are scripture for our days and we should treat them as such. One thought that I had that I will share comes from the priesthood session. The Prophet, Thomas S. Monson spoke for only about five minutes and spoke about the word of wisdom. Why with the short time and limited strength that he has would he choose to talk about a health code?
This week we had a really tough day, where we were not being able to teach anyone. At 8 o´clock at night we had ran out of plans and ideas, except for an investigator that we haven´t found at home the entire time I have been here. I was needing to teach and said a silent prayer that they would be at home and let us in. It was the first time that we found them at home and we were able to teach. It is great to know that Our Father in Heaven hears us, answers our prayers and imports with what is important to us.
Random:
*This week we decided to do something new... and we bought a giant tub a creme de açaí. I´m not sure if it was 10 liters or 10 kilos. But, we are getting close to the bottom already (with four elders).
*I arrived at general conference on Saturday and sat down to listen. In about a minute, I noticed that it was in English. One of the members came up to me and told me that the translation audio wasn´t working and asked me to translate. I did the best I could and luckily the translation started to work after doing this for only one speaker, but it was definitely a new experience.
Elder Quain
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