Hola Familia Y Amigos!!
I LOVE conference!! This weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to listen to the Lord's chosen Prophet and Apostles in what is called General Conference. It would be similar to Peter and Paul calling a meeting of all the saints in Jerusalem, and delivering discourses over the 2 day conference. It is so good, and the nearest description I could give to one who has not seen this conference would be to the experience of the saints recorded in Acts 2:1-3. But anyway, there is not much to report on this week. It has been pretty slow in terms of total lessons taught, but we have had some really good experiences with the lessons that we did teach. In particular was our lesson with Pablo. Pablo recently was let out of jail, and is looking to change his life around. We had a lesson with him on Friday night, and we taught him about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was a good lesson, he seemed to really understand what we were saying, and seemed to really feel the Spirit. We used the pen breaking apart to show the apostasy and it really made sense to him. We invited him to watch General Conference with us, but he was not able make it.... :( we will go back this week and try to see where the disconnect was. We are excited to help Pablo make the change that he desires. On Wednesday i was able to have a really neat experience with Elder Martinez on exchanges in his area teaching a younger guy who is just 100% ready for the Gospel. We had a really great lesson teaching the restoration, and were able to promise that his questions would be answered as he continues to meet with and learn from the missionaries. He has so many questions that will be answered by the things we teach as missionaries. And I love teaching the Gospel for that very reason. As a spiritual thought I would like to share a little bit of what I remember from the conference addresses based on my notes. In the Saturday morning session, Elder J Devn Cornish spoke and said a few things that I really enjoyed, he spoke about the question many of us have about feeling acceptable before God as "good and faithful servants". We often, as our own worst critics, place ourselves in a position of feeling inadequate, and unworthy. We are in fact not able to claim any merit worthy of salvation by ourselves. but as Elder Cornish taught, we are acceptable before God as long as we keep repenting, and stop rationalizing and rebelling. When we do repent we can receive the grace of God through the atonement of Christ which is mighty to save. When we rationalize and rebel, we distance ourselves from God, and willingly deny the grace we need to be saved. Elder Quentin L Cook spoke of stumbling blocks that would also deny us the gift of eternal life. The philosophies of men, refusing to see sin in its true light, and looking beyond the mark are all ways of rationalizing or rebelling against the simple truths taught by Christ. They complicate our life, and insulate us from being able to feel the full warmth of God's love. There were so many wonderful messages that were shared by the Lord's chosen servants, and I invite all of you who did not get the chance to see one or any of the speakers to listen. You can listen to these wonderful messages at https://www.lds.org/general-conference?lang=eng&_r=1 Elder Whitaker
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