¡Hola familia!
How was the baby blessing? How´s Kelly´s familiy doing? And Jen´s, Laura´s, and Seth´s?
This week was pretty good. I
got sick on Thursday (aches, ear-aches, shivers, etc.), but I´m feeling a
lot better now. Almost our whole district got sick (only 2 people
haven´t so far), but esta todo bien.
Tomorrow for P-Day, we´re going
to Wal-Mart and a food court. I have one word for the food court -
Wendy´s. All the way. It´s going to be awesome. And we´re also going to a
chapel in the morning to play sports and stuff. It´ll be good.
Spanish is coming along. We´re
now teaching other missionaries as investigators and we act like
investigators while they teach us. It´s good practice. I love it here in
the CCM. It´s crazy to think that we only have two weeks left. And then
the mission field. And solamente Español for real. It´ll be good.
We had fast Sunday yesterday.
It was such a good experience. I bore my testimony in Spanish in our
Sacrament Meeting - that was fun. Hermana Brewster didn´t want to go up
by herself, so I went with her. She´s in my district - she´s really nice
and sweet. Her Spanish is coming along well, too.
And we also watched "Joseph
Smith, the Prophet of the Restoration" yesterday afternoon. It was SO
GOOD. I always forget how good that movie is until we watch it again.
All through the movie, everyone was crying. So, at the end of the movie
and after we had been sitting in awkward crying silence for about a
minute, I said, "For a message of happiness, we sure cry a lot." About
half of the room started laughing. It was great.
This week, I really realized
the sacrifices that have been made for this Gospel. People have died for
the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith sealed their
testimonies in their blood. Jesus Christ was crucified for His
preachings and to fulfill the Atonement and Resurrection. Joseph Smith
was tarred and feathered multiple times and people were forced from
their homes. I also realized that while we give up a lot to be full-time
missionaries for 18 months to 2 years, we are not asked to give up our
lives. Yes, some missionaries die or are seriously injured, but they are
in the minority. We are asked to give up little in comparison to what
other people have given to this Gospel. Yes, it will be hard and yes, we
will have trials and be rejected and have emotional and spiritual
burdens to carry, BUT we are blessing the lives of many people in the
field and at home. The devotional this past week was by Elder Anderson
and one of the things he said
was, "We sacrifice for the things we love and we love the things we
sacrifice for." I know that I love this Gospel. I know that I love
Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I know that I love the Book of Mormon
and I know that it is true. Some people don´t know of it´s truth or of
the love that Heavenly Father has for them. That´s why we´re here - to
teach the wonderful word of Salvation and to tell people of how they can
return to their Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and that their sins
can be forgiven and that through the Atonement, they can be happy and
clean. And that there are prophets and revelations and scriptures and
love that they don´t know about that can make them so happy! this Gospel
- this message - is one of happiness and I´m so grateful that I get to
teach this 24-7 for the next 17 months.
I love all of you! I hope that everything is going well back home!
¡Esta todo bien!
-Hermana Conover
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