Hello my family and friends! You can wake up now, September is over, haha. Hope you all enjoyed General Conference. I know I certainly did. So let me start by telling you how the week went. Lately we have been working hard to find new investigators to replace the ones that are being baptized. It's been hard the last couple of weeks to find people that want to listen to us. But this week we were blessed with five new investigators. It was very exciting, and they all seem like really faithful people who are motivated to change their lives and come in line with Christ. So we had a little fun with the district on Wednesday. We had our district meeting and when we were on exchanges with our district leader the week before I mentioned that it might be fun to do an Asian DTM. He loved the idea so we had an Asian DTM. It was really fun, but we also learned a lot too. We also were able to have a baptism between conference sessions which was really cool. The guys name is Tony Mondragon and he has basically been waiting two years to turn 18 so that he can be baptized. There were tons of people there and it was really awesome to see how long he was willing to wait to make that covenant.
So conference was awesome! Saturday we watched it at two different members houses who were in the same ward as Tony. They cooked us food and made sure we were comfortable so that was really nice. Sunday we watched it with the Spanish branch, which was cool. We had to wear headphones, but I felt like I was on my mission in Mexico or something. I also got to work on my Spanish as I talked to people. The talks were amazing. I really liked the talks by Sister Thompson and Elder Cook. Elder Cook said something that really helped me. He said we should not mourn for opportunity lost. It really helped because I've been reflecting a lot about when I came home and the opportunities I lost. But it helped me to know that I'm back out and doing the Lord's work, so I shouldn't be worrying about the past. President Erying is always my favorite. He always has personal stories and you can tell he has a tender heart. President Monson is always hilarious. I think he knows he is trying to be funny, but he also helps us feel the Spirit and strive to be better as members of the church. I love it when he talked about the Beatles saying "All you Need is Love" which people tell me all the time and I tell them it's not true. Now I have a prophet to back me up, haha.
I talked to President Pitts about when I'll know where I'll be reassigned to. From talking to him I'll most likely be reassigned somewhere in the states, but ultimately it's up to an Apostle. He said he'll put in a recommendation around October 17 and I'll know probably right before I leave. So I'll probably know in about a month what is going to happen.
I think the best spiritual thought this week is to take a talk from Conference and over the next 6 months really try to apply it to your life and live it. The talks are modern revelation to prophets and apostles and they are meant for us RIGHT NOW!!! If you can't remember everything, that's alright. Just try to remember a talk where you felt the Spirit the most and look it up online. Mark it, take notes, and make goals of how you can better live that principle in your life. I promise as you do so you will be better prepared for the challenges you will face over the next six months. I love you all and pray that we can all do our very best to follow the teachings we learn from the Lord's chosen servants.
Godspeed,
Elder Kendall
So conference was awesome! Saturday we watched it at two different members houses who were in the same ward as Tony. They cooked us food and made sure we were comfortable so that was really nice. Sunday we watched it with the Spanish branch, which was cool. We had to wear headphones, but I felt like I was on my mission in Mexico or something. I also got to work on my Spanish as I talked to people. The talks were amazing. I really liked the talks by Sister Thompson and Elder Cook. Elder Cook said something that really helped me. He said we should not mourn for opportunity lost. It really helped because I've been reflecting a lot about when I came home and the opportunities I lost. But it helped me to know that I'm back out and doing the Lord's work, so I shouldn't be worrying about the past. President Erying is always my favorite. He always has personal stories and you can tell he has a tender heart. President Monson is always hilarious. I think he knows he is trying to be funny, but he also helps us feel the Spirit and strive to be better as members of the church. I love it when he talked about the Beatles saying "All you Need is Love" which people tell me all the time and I tell them it's not true. Now I have a prophet to back me up, haha.
I talked to President Pitts about when I'll know where I'll be reassigned to. From talking to him I'll most likely be reassigned somewhere in the states, but ultimately it's up to an Apostle. He said he'll put in a recommendation around October 17 and I'll know probably right before I leave. So I'll probably know in about a month what is going to happen.
I think the best spiritual thought this week is to take a talk from Conference and over the next 6 months really try to apply it to your life and live it. The talks are modern revelation to prophets and apostles and they are meant for us RIGHT NOW!!! If you can't remember everything, that's alright. Just try to remember a talk where you felt the Spirit the most and look it up online. Mark it, take notes, and make goals of how you can better live that principle in your life. I promise as you do so you will be better prepared for the challenges you will face over the next six months. I love you all and pray that we can all do our very best to follow the teachings we learn from the Lord's chosen servants.
Godspeed,
Elder Kendall
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