What a week we had here!
This last week was super busy for us but we didn´t have much to show for it.
Our numbers weren´t too high because a lot of our lessons that are always there
fell so that was a little disappointing, but now we have just that much more
drive to improve this week. Alrighty general conference!! I´ve never loved
conference so much in my life, it is amazing to watch conference on the mission
I just was able to get so much more out of it I thought. And of course the huge
news was the change of age for missionaries! This is very exciting news for the
church, I hope the young men and young women are now learning the importance of
preparation to serve a mission. I can promise that preparation before the
mission will benefit you in every possible way. I wish I would have studied
more from the scriptures and was more receptive to promptings from the Spirit
before the mission because that would have made it so much easier now to be
teaching this Gospel. But I hope everyone was able to learn from this
conference and feel the power of the Holy Ghost. Dad, thank you so much for
watching the sessions of conference. That was probably the best news I´ve heard
on my mission so far haha. Words cannot describe how happy I am to hear that.
The message I got from conference was definitely repentance but also to be a
true convert to the church.
I can´t remember who said it
or how exactly he said it but it was something like: We are to give up sin for
eternal life... Just think about that for a minute, this life is the time we
have to prepare to have eternal happiness. Why would we sin in this life and
cause ourselves grief and pain if our ultimate goal is happiness? I dono why
but that statement was very powerful to me. But conference overall was awesome.
And even better news. Julio came to watch conference with us (we watched it in
the stake center IN ENGLISH!!!! so that made me happy haha) but anyways he felt
like that session was for him and said he has never felt the spirit that strong
for him! So that was pretty exciting news too. Other than that we didn´t have
many other investigators come, I think two others came. I´m not sure why but
the members down here don´t see the importance of watching general conference,
especially Saturday, I think there was maybe fifty people in the Stake Center.
And just so you know they don´t get it in their houses so we would have liked
to see a bigger turnout. Hopefully they will read the talks though.
This last week we really
wanted to find a lot of new investigators and we did find a new family, the
Sanchez family. All we have had with them was a small discussion because our
main purpose was to bless their house. But they invited us back, and they are
some of the friendliest people I have met here so far, and I´ve met some pretty
dang nice people haha. But that was awesome. This next week though we want to
still find more. And we switch roles, now I am the Senior Companion so that´s a
little scary for me cause now I lead out in every lesson and planning and
stuff. So we will really see everything I´ve learned.
Oh I´m now up to 110
pupusas, if I can keep this pace up I will eat 1100 here on the mish so thats
exciting..I still don´t know how to make them though dang it. But everyone's
week at home sounds like it was pretty decent. Busy but good. I can´t believe
it´s already October! The weather hasn´t changed here at all, still
ridiculously hot and humid in the day and pours at night. The thunderstorms are
pretty sweet here and all the low roads in our area fill up pretty fast with
water. But anyways it´s already October which means before you know it, it will
be Christmas and I´ll be skypin ya up! Yeeeahhhh buddyyyy. HA pretty excited
for that. And thank you for the package that has been sent, I´ll tell ya when I
get it. Maybe for Christmas you could send some more CTR socks, they´re not
ruined or anything just sometimes our cocinera/ lavanda ropa is a bit slow and
well I just don´t wanna wear the same socks for three days ha. But I was
wondering if you could maybe send a nice paisley tie not like way fancy but a
good one that will last. I wanna give it to Raul our convert who is 14. His
family is very poor and I want him to look like a stud passing the sacrament.
Elder Jorgensen
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