Hey!
This
week’s been pretty cool! it’s been a lot of meetings again! so that’s cool in
its own way! It seems like I was just writing about
last week! Anyways this has been a pretty good week. It’s been pretty
warm lately! so that’s really cool! Except it decided to snow today for some
reason!
Thursday was a interesting day, in preparation for Zone conference
we all had to back up our iPad s so the majority of the day was spent backing
up all the files and stuff, which wasn't very fun. Friday was zone conference
so that was really fun, we got new iPad s, and talked about how to prevent
athletes foot. It felt like this was more of a housekeeping zone conference
rather than a Crazy spiritual one. But it was still spiritual, we learned about
the new initiative the church is doing for Easter So that's pretty cool it’s
going to be really awesome! It’s called "He lives". It’s really a
Spiritual powerhouse. It’s going to be really good!
Saturday we got to go to the temple with Steven Pendergrass! he is
so solid! he is getting ready to go on his mission and he leaves next Saturday.
So that's crazy! Anyways after that we also had stake conference. It was the
adult session and it was really good, it was all about Councils and how to have
a effective family, ward, and stake councils. Then at the Sunday morning
session they talked about reverence and to have a foundation of faith. And it
was really chill.
One thing interesting Elder Hallstrom of the presidency of
the 70 said, was that every member will at some point in their life have a
personal Gethsemane with trials specifically tailored to us, and that we will
either turn towards Christ and His atonement because it will be the only place
where we will find peace, strength, and healing or we will turn to ourselves
and become mad at God and eventually ourselves. Which I thought was powerful!
So they counseled to build that faith in Christ and never neglect doing your
daily patterns of personal worship such as praying and reading the scriptures.
Make your person worship just as focused as your public worship. They used the
analogy that it’s easier to pull a few weeds a day then letting them build up
and then trying to work through them all at once. Needless to say it was a
great Conference.
So after it was over we went to give a baptismal interview for
some of the sisters in my district. It was pretty cool the guy is Haitian and
he loves Joseph Smith! So that's cool! We also found out that a sister who was
attending our YSA wards for only social aspects decided that she wants to learn
more of the spiritual side of our religion so that's wonderful!
Monday we had district meeting And then we had a lesson with a
recent convert but she didn't show up which stinks! but that's life. Yesterday
was Crazy! We ended up giving a blessing to this lad who lives in Inwood.
that's a long and confusing story! but we ran into one of our potential
investigators, an Asian woman named Jing. She was actually looking for us
because she tried to call us but she couldn't read the phone number! (I wrote
on the card! whoops!) but it just goes to show nothing not even bad handwriting
will stop this work! Anyways it was a great week! I'm looking forward to next
week!
Love you all have a good one!
Elder Richards
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