October 7, 2014
What a weekend did we have?? That was awesome!
This was the first General Conference I watched on my mission, but the funny part of it is, that it was also the last one I will watch as a missionary. It was really nice actually hearing the leaders of the church speak. Ever since returning to the states and realizing that I was able to see it, I’ve been so excited and it was totally worth it.
For those who might be reading this and don’t know what General Conference is, here is a link:
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/?cid=HP14GC&lang=eng
We have General Conference twice a year, there are 4 regular sessions, 1 session specifically for the women of the church, and 1 session specifically for the men. Our church leaders give talks on a wide variety of topics that provide inspiration and direction for members of the church, music is provided by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and other choirs. The Conference takes place in Salt Lake City but it is broadcast to many of our church buildings, is available on cable tv and over the internet. We look forward to it every time. These Conference sessions replace our regular church meetings that weekend. The link above links you to all of the talks so that you can watch, listen or print them.
The best part of it is on Wednesday when we were having interviews with President Moffat, I told him that I have haven’t seen a General Conference since 2012, he paused, then handed me two Priesthood session tickets!!!!! I literally couldn’t think of anything else. I was so happy!!! It was a great day.
All the talks were FANTASTIC!! I really liked the Saturday morning session there were a lot of great talks. but all of them really awesome!!
This week was pretty good too, we are starting to have some good lessons. We had one with Jani and we had it at the Bishop’s house. After that he took us to lunch haha. It was a great lesson about the Book of Mormon. She even commited to being baptized which made our day! Now it’s time to start working!! after the lesson, the Bishop, who a return mission president, said that the way we explained the Book of Mormon was one of the best, if not the best he's seen from a missionary. I was actually really surprised he said that because I thought we were all over the place, but that made me feel good.
We had a little scary moment Saturday morning with Granny (The missionaries live in the apartment in the basement of Granny’s house). She had fallen and couldn’t get up, so she got her cane and started banging on the floor hoping that we were still there. We heard it so we ran up the stairs and granny was so happy. We decided after that that we would watch the afternoon conference session with her. I love granny but just pray that she doesn’t hurt herself.
We are making some progress with some of our investigators. The Spirit is really starting to work hard over here. Yesterday we, as a zone, would stop at every hour and pray specifically to help someone that the missionaries were working with throughout the zone. It was great because now, as a zone, we have 8 more people that are now preparing for baptism. The Lord works in mysterious ways!
I hope that everyone enjoyed conference, I know I did!!
Elder Park
The White African... in Utah
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