Family!!!!!
This has been such a great week. We are getting so excited for the baptism of C. scheduled for this Friday. She is getting very excited as well!!!
So
we just found out today that we are getting a senior couple out here to
our branch!!!! They are the Brems!!!!!! We are so excited to have them
to help our members!!!!
We
went to Palma this week for Zone Conference. It was so good to see
President!!!! I ate nine pieces of pizza. I've still got it!!!! I got
your package!!! Thank you so much.
Today
for preparation day we did some spring cleaning and caught up on some
sleep. We had church in Inca this
week, so we stayed the night in Inca.
We
are so pumped for General Conference!!!! We have a stash of money for
shopping each week, and whatever we have left over, we are buying
snacks!!!!!! It should be great. This is what we share with all of our
members leading up to conference, I thought I would share it with you.
So
In the book of Mosiah, we read about the first General Conference of
the Nephites. Everyone gathers around to here the words of the Prophet.
In Mosiah 2:5 we read, "And it came to pass that when they came up to
the temple, they pitched their tents round about, every man according to
his family, consisting of his wife, and his sons, and his daughters,
and their sons, and their daughters, from the eldest down to the
youngest, every family being separate one from another."
It's
interesting to me that these people first, faced themselves towards the
temple. I hope that with Conference this week, you will wake time to go
to the temple, and have questions ready in mind. Next it explains that
everyone was organized by family. I always loved Conference because it
is such a family time. May we put a higher focus on strengthening our
family, and being edifices together this Conference.
So
why do we have Conference? What is the goal? I would say it is the same
as the People of Nephi. That we can experience what they experienced in
Mosiah 5:2, "And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we believe
all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of
their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent,
which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have
no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually."
It
is my hope that as we come to Conference, that we might receive a
mighty change of heart. that we might be able to have a disposition to
do good continually!!! I am so excited to hear from our modern Prophets
and change my disposition to better serve the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Our miracle this week comes from the opportunity we had to go to the Old Folks Home on Tuesday to
visit C's mother. She is ninety-nine and so kind. We met so many
people and enjoyed our time getting to know these amazing people. Elder
Cook and I decided to make that our weekly service project. Every Tuesday we
are now going out to the Home and talking with the residents. As we
left last week, they were all asking when we would return, looking into
their sweet faces, we had to tell them the next week. We are so excited.
My whole mission I have been looking for more service opportunities,
and here it is!! What a miracle. We loving serving the Lord!
We
had a special meeting in Palma with an Area Authority, and he talked
about how we are trying to become a stake, but why is that important? We
talked about how a stake is used to tie down a tent to protect it from
the the storms. That is the same reason we have them today. To protect
the church from the storms of the adversary. It is our duty to
strengthen our stakes so that when the storms come, we can be firm and
the campers can sleep through the night!!
Doctrine and Covenants 115:6 "And that the
gathering together upon the land of Zion, and upon her stakes, may be
for a defense, and for a refuge from the storm, and from wrath when it
shall be poured out without mixture upon the whole earth.And that the
gathering together upon the land of Zion, and upon her stakes, may be
for a defense, and for a refuge from the storm, and from wrath when it
shall be poured out without mixture upon the whole earth."
Elder Tyson
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