I loved conference! It was so good. I have a couple of questions.
1. Was there a point where Boyd K. Packer couldn't be understood?
2. Where was Richard G. Scott?
3. Why did President Monson give a short talk on Sunday morning only?
4. Are there always people opposed to the sustainings?
5. Am I the only person who thinks D. Todd Christopherson looks like Neil Kunz?
Anyway,
here are a couple of my highlights. The whole overall theme seemed to
be the importance of family. L. Tom Perry smashed it home with a great
talk about the overall feel from the world about families. I loved
Wilford Anderson's talk. There are so many times where I just teach the
dance steps without explaining the reason why. That is probably why
there are so many less-actives in out church. We read our scriptures,
say our prayers, and go to church, but we don't ever really know why.
After a while, it gets hard dancing without music. Elder Neilson's talk
really struck home. "Elder Nielson came to our mission in February and
trained us on the new iPads. He was really cool. He also grew up in the
same ward as President Taylor in Burley, Idaho. I also loved President
Eyring's talk in the Priesthood session. The principle of revelation
through the priesthood is huge as a missionary. We can't do anything
without the Holy Ghost. President Uchtdorf's talk stood out to me in the
Sunday morning session. His last few talks have all been about looking
inside yourself and improving. We get asked a lot of questions about
grace vs works so will use that in the future. I wish I would have taken
more notes on President Monson. I hope that everybody took something
out of it because it was really inspired.
This
week was the best week that this zone has had in a long time. We have
some awesome missionaries now. Elder Brase is awesome and we have
gotten along great so far. The first week of the transfer has been
pretty crazy, but we have some great things coming.
Mike
and I pulled a good one on Elder Brase. It was his first day here and
we went over to teach Mike. He has this huge, scary German Shepard. I
talked up Mike like he was some drunkard that hated our guts and we had
to go over when he wasn't there and that he sicked his dog on Elder
Aguirre and it turned into this whole legal issue. HaHa. So we went to
the door and Mike was the biggest jerk ever and we kept pushing and
pushing to let us in and finally he was like, "that's it!" And he went
to get the dog. I just took off running and Elder Brase was right behind
me. haha. He was pretty scared and we had a good laugh over it.
Anyway, Mike came to the Priesthood session! He said that he loved it. I
even looked over all the time to make sure that he wasn't falling
asleep and he was attentive the whole time! What was awesome, was that
we didn't even coordinate it. Some members of the ward just took it on
themselves and invited him and then had dinner afterward. They remind
me of Brody Birch and company. They are so funny and I am just rolling
when I am around them. They have the coolest personalities and Mike
really enjoys being around them. Brother Traynor is one of them and he
lived at the outdoor center out in Badger Creek for a summer so we have
a good connection. We pushed his date back to May 9th.
We
were not able to meet with the Gonzalez family. They left a note for
us that said that a meeting came up. We left our number on the door and
prayed hat we would be able to reschedule. Sure enough, they called us
back. It was like on the Best Two Years when they started singing the
hallelujah chorus when he actually called back. Haha. That movie makes
so much more sense now!
Hey, I won't be too
far from Justin Coburn! That is cool that Justin and Tanner are both
getting ready to go. I just talked to one elder that said that he left
on his mission 7 weeks after he put his papers in. That is pretty rare,
but hopefully Justin gets to see Jourdon before he goes.
You
asked about how my study of the four gospels went. It was amazing. I
woke up early Sunday morning and started reading the account in John. I
wonder what my reaction would have been if I would have seen the empty
tomb. I wonder how much comprehension the people had at that time. I
was thinking about all the people that I have talked to on my mission.
All of the jerks, the super nice people, the weird people, the confused
people, those who were searching, those who were sincerely concerned
for our souls. Every single one of them will be resurrected because of
Jesus Christ. I learned so much about Jesus Christ. Now I am going to
start studying the Book of Mormon.
The
letters are great! I love hearing updates from home and how everybody
is doing. The missionary experiences are great too. You never know how
much your efforts will touch somebody. I am glad that everybody is
doing great. Le me know if there is anything that I can do for you. I
love you. Have an awesome week.
Love,
Jaxon
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