Bon dia a tots, ¿com va? It has been a great week here for us. First off though, transfer news! *Drum roll* I'm going to Menorca! I'll be with Elder Alder. In other words, nothing happened =) We didn't even realize it was transfers haha. We got called Saturday night, and they were like, "Hey, so I've got transfer news" and I was like "What transfer news? Oh, that transfer news!" And we're both staying. Actually, our whole zone pretty much stayed the same except for Elder Bozarth, who's going to Hospitalet, and an Elder in Mallorca. So yeah, we're pretty excited to have another transfer together! Especially now that we are starting to tear up Menorca a little bit =)
I have been relistening to General Conference and we have been sharing talks with the members in our lessons, and we have seen miracles and softening of hearts! I love General Conference. It is amazing to see the Lord work in people, and to work through us to do it! General Conference nailed every doubt/excuse/problem/situation that we have here in Menorca, so that is great. Like all of the Sundy talks are just perfect for rebuking less actives with love and the Spirit, and the words of the living prophets (that scripture about the word of God being sharper than a two-edged sword...yeah, it's true And the guilty do take the truth to be hard, because it cuts them to the center! See 1 Nephi 16:27/2 Nephi 9:30 something). It has been a good system for us to start with a prayer, read a couple related scriptures, have a little discussion/bear testimony to invite the Spirit, then show the conference talk, then bear testimony again.
We have been thinking between how we can help some of these people who it seems we have been working with for forever now, thinking if we should kind of leave them or keep working with them. We came to the conclusion that we were going to start sharing bold, powerful messages and basically give some of them the sink or swim, fly or die concept. And it's kind of worked! We shared an excellent message with Percy and Yamile, based off of 2 Nephi 2:27/Alma 34:31-34ish and then talking about repentance, coming to the Savior, and how today is the day of our salvation, and immediatly the great plan of redemption can be brought about in us. We don't have to wait for some future day! Then we showed President Eyring's sunday talk to them. The Spirit was strong, and they both felt the power of the message. Percy is reading in the Book of Mormon, almost done with 1 Nephi now, and it seems to be going great.
7 de Octubre
General Conference was really great. I had brought a paper with some 6 or so questions, and every one was answered in just about every talk haha. Then after taking all of my notes I colored and highlighted
answers/points by colors as I reviewed my notes. It was really neat to see how this process has consistenly worked for me! It is so true..write down questions on a paper, take notes, y che! Ya lo tiene.
It was a little sad though, we had invited like 15 people who said they would definitely be there, some just 30 min before it started we saw them in the street and reminded, and they didn't show... it ended
up being us, President with his family, and Carmen and Francisco, who enjoyed it a lot =) We are probably going to print out a few talks for people to read, because this conference was just pinned on the head to
all of what Menorca needs right now! I heard them address almost every single excuse, problem, or doubt that we see and hear every day. The Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon (which we watched sunday
morning) we watched in Spanish, which for me is pretty much the same as far as understanding, but much less in spiritual power...hearing the real voice is so much better, and native tongue of course.
Everyone went home after that, and Elder Alder and I watched the Priesthood session and sunday morning in English. We still have to watch the sunday afternoon, which I'm downloading today to listen to.
I think the Priesthood session was my favorite or the Sunday morning, but all the talks were great. I really enjoyed President's Uchtdorf's talks, they were just magnificent. I liked Richard Maynes talk too,
about building spiritual stamina. Elder Oaks was just super bold. I love it =) I really enjoyed Pres Monson's sheep herder analogy too. I was inspired by the way that Elder Alder takes notes and learns effectively from the Conference, from PMG, scriptures, etc. and is a very organized student =)
Oh, one funny thing I guess. After conference, we were talking with President Bladimir. He suggested that we start visiting a few pueblos on the other side of the island to see if the antiguos or menos activos there would be interested, because things are going a little slow on this half. We just kind of joked, “let's just pack up our bags and start anew in Ciutadella! If all the hundred less actives here don't want to go, we'll just go to the other end closer to the members who do come! (President lives in Ferreries and Francisco in Es Migjorn).” But there might be a grain of truth to that. We should just start telling people, look if you don't want to come to church, we're out of here and then you can drive an hour to get to church when you
change your mind and want the blessings of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, then maybe they will come =)
Well, thank you for all of your prayers...they work! ¡Que todo siga bien!
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