Wow this week has been amazing! Well we finally
got two for sure investigators but it just so happens that they
are both teachers, so they don´t have much time, but we are
working on it. :) The other thing that happened this week is we
had a Stake Conference (here they have two every year) and there
was a Seventy there, Elder Villaloboz (I believe that´s how he
spells it) it´s like saying wolf valley. He was very strong
with his words and very direct. If you want an idea of what it
was like, read Alma 5, that´s just about how direct he was. It
was pretty awesome to listen to him. We had a Priesthood
Meeting Saturday and a General Meeting that night and a General
Meeting Sunday. There was very few people during the
Priesthood, double for the Saturday General and a lot during the
Sunday. They had nice messages I liked a lot of them, but then
Elder Villaloboz got up and told them right off the bat that
they weren´t there for the Saturday meetings and that they
should have been, that as members we should be where we should
be, when we should be there. Then he related the story of
Abraham and Isaac, when he went to sacrifice his son and how we
are all of the blessings, because Abraham was faithful and that
the angel arrived just in time to stop him from sacrificing his
son. Then he said, can you imagine if the angel arrived just a
little bit late. Something else that he said was that the
biggest mistake of a young man is to not go on a mission. There
is a problem here with a lot of young men who won´t go on a
mission. He also talked about true conversion, well first he
asked people to raise there hand if they where converts and then
if they were born in the covenant, and then he asked for those
that were truly converted. Well a few hands went up and then he
asked if they were willing to stay in the church if they went
through the hardest things in their lives and a bunch of other
things. After he said that, the hands start to lower little by
little. There was so much that he talked about in the three
different meetings and was very direct about it all, there was
no if, ands, or buts about it. So well that is the big thing
that happened this week.
Oh and I forgot, there was two baptism after the Sunday meeting of
investigators of mine when I was in Rio Grande, so it was nice to
see them, and the other members from Rio Grande.
Les Amo
Elder Durrant
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