That's so awesome that you guys went to Audrey`s baptism and Palmyra!! Thank you, she looks really happy. Tyler has a suit!! He looks like a missionary. I miss you guys, it sounds like a fun weekend.
We saw all the sessions of General Conference this weekend in the Stake Center with Jesùs Pachas who gets baptized this saturday and HE GOT HIS ANSWER. He already had a testimony of the book of Mormon and Joseph Smith but he wanted to get a confirmation that Thomas S. Monson is really a prophet, and he told us yesterday that definitively without any doubt he knows that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet chosen by God. He knows that baptism is the right thing for him to do and that he eventually needs to enter the temple. The members in our ward have been awesome with him by going to his house to read the book of Mormon to him and just being his friend, and I`m really happy for him because there`s no doubt in my mind that he will ever go inactive. When we were walking back from general conference he talked to almost every person that passed by about the gospel. Some people we were able to make a teaching appointment with, and always at the end Jesùs would bear his testimony about the Book of Mormon and the Restored Gospel. He told us that he used to be a fisher of men once too. It reminded me of Elder Bednar`s talk in the Sunday afternoon session about how our willingness to share the restored gospel with others is a reflection of how much it really means to us. And for Jesùs it means everything to him. Almost every time we visit him he has a reference for us. I`m really happy for him and that God answered his prayers.
That`s about it for spiritual experiences this week, sorry this email will probably be shorter than normal. We had a lot of rejection this week. One of the recent converts that was baptized not even 3 months ago told us that she is always going to be catholic and that we should stop visiting her. She stopped going to church a couple months ago because her Mormon boyfriend broke up with her. We are teaching her mom though and she seems really interested and she wants to continue in the lessons because she wants her family to have something better. One of the inactive families we have been working with is probably going to be reactivated this week so that`s really exciting. They were inactive for 11 years. I`m learning a lot in my personal study in the scriptures and I really love studying them. General Conference was really great because I noticed that a lot of the time when I teach I make it more complicated than it needs to be, and that I should just focus on teaching basic principles one at a time and making sure that they understand what it is that I`m teaching. I kept that in mind when I taught yesterday and our lessons went a lot better. I love it here and I`m learning a lot. I hope you guys have a great week and I love you guys.
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