June 17, 2014
Hi daddy!
I love you!!!
Happy (belated) Father`s Day!
Aw, man - I wanted to drive the
Bobcat when I got home...I guess that won`t happen, nwo that yuo`ve moved the
rocks. Oh, wait! You`re going to change it again, so I still can next year! :)
That`s funny that you should mention
water running downhill - there`s a place a little outside of our area where the
water runs uphill. There`s a dip in the road where it looks like you`re going
downhill and if you put your car in neutral, you`ll start rolling up the hill.
I`ve never been there, but I`ve heard about it. So that`s good that water still
runs downhill there.
And yes, we had 5 baptisms this
week. I still can`t believe it. And her husband is going to come to church next
week and we`re going to help him be prepared to be baptized for the 6 of July.
I`m excited for them - they`re going to be a strong family in the Church.
It`s ok - we all make mistakes.
There are days when I make some pretty silly mistakes that I usually never do -
switch a word in Spanish, what have you - but it`s ok. If we make mistakes, it
means we`re trying to do better. There are still some parts of Spanish grammar
that are hard for me and I still make mistakes with it, but we move forward. We
correct, repent, and move forward with a firm faith in Christ.
This week I`m reading Helaman (well,
I finished it today) and I was impressed by samuel the prophet and how he
proclaimed repentance and faith to the people. hat`s what we`re here for - to
invite people to come unto Christ through faith in Jesus Christ and His
Atonement, Repentance, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins,
receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. And the first two principles
are really what start it all. If people have faith, they`ll want to repent and
will have the faith to be forgiven of their sins. If they repent, they`ll want
to show that repentance and their willingness to change through baptism. And
baptism by water isn`t complete without that of fire, through the Holy Ghost.
And after that, we don`t just sit back and relax but we work, we endure to the
end. I know that this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how it is the only way
we can return to the presence of our loving Heavenly Father (2 Nephi
31:20-21).
I love you, dad! I pray for you and
mom and our family everyday! I hope that you are doing well and remember that
"It`s all good! ¡Está todo bien!"
Con MUCHO amor,
Hermana Pumpkin Conover
June 17,
2014
Hi momma!
I love you!
The crafts sound fun and that it
kept the kids focused on other things than bugging Kelly. :)
That`s cool how you got to talk to a
former mission president`s wife. What kind of questions did she ask? The CCM
president is President Nicolayson. He`s home now, there`s a new CCM
president.
It`s weird to think that in a week
we`re going to have a new mission President. We`re going to have two conferences this week
- one for one half of the mission and another for the other half. We`re having
ours on Thursday. It`s also weird to
think that for a lot of the missionaries, this will be the last time that they`ll
see President Brough. Maybe not for the Nortes (North Americans), but for some
of the Latinos, it will be the last time (in this life). But, we`re excited to
meet President Markham and his wife and to learn from them, as well. We`ll
still continue being exactly obedient and diligent and work on increasing our
faith. I am grateful for the lessons that President and Hermana Brough have
taught me here in the mission about obedience and love and faith and diligence.
I will carry these lessons with me throughout my life. And now, we have the
opportunity of learning from another man called of God to be a mission
president and work and pray hard. I know that this is the Lord`s work and He
calls people to do this work. He doesn`t call the qualified, but qualifies the
called.
We had 5 baptisms this week on
Sunday - and the Elders in our branch also had 5, so we had a joint baptism. It
was really good and I`m excited for them. They`re going to do great things in
the church. And the sister that we baptized, we`re going to help her husband
prepare to be baptized the 6 of July. He`s going to come to church this week
and I`m excited that they`re going to be a strong family in the church.
This week I have been learning about
humility. Humility isn`t a weakness, but a sign of spiritual strength (Preach
My Gospel, chapter 6, "Humility"). The opposite of humility is pride.
But being humble means that we submit to the Lord`s will and do what He wants
us to do. We pass through trials, it`s true, but we can have the faith and
peace and strength to move forward and learn from our experiences. Through the
Atonement, we can have help to do what we need to do and change what we need to
change. I know that through the Atonement of Christ - His sacrifice for each of
us - we can become better and clean from our sins. It`s only through this
sacrifice that we can go back to the presence of our loving Heavenly Father.
It`s only through this sacrifice that we can find peace - true, everlasting
peace that is only the peace Christ can give and not the peace of the world.
I love you, mom! I hope that you are
doing well and know that I pray for you and dad and our family everyday!
Con MUCHO amor,
Hermana Conover
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