Wow wow wow what to talk about! Conference was amazing!! I seriously had my mind blown so many times!! Also, sad side note: I left my journal with my conference notes back in the room, so I won't be able to make as many comments as I'd like, but i'll give y'all my best. (BTW could you let me know what the church stats are? We really wanted to know but we can't look them up! Since they didn't get announced) Some things that I really felt were emphasized was that President Nelson is supposed to be the prophet!!! Wow wow wow seriously we got hit with that message over and over, and seriously the Spirit was so strong! Being on the mission and watching conference seriously is so amazing! That was the shortest conference I've ever experienced, but also the most spiritually rich! A really great quote from Lynn G. Robbins was, "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm" This really stuck out to me because it is so easy to get discouraged when we fail (especially as missionaries in training) but something else he said was that failure should be our tutor. I also loved what Taniela B. Wakolo said, "Casualness leads to casualties." We need to be active in the work. If we are too casual about our conversion, we ourselves will be a spiritual casualty in our daily battles against the adversary. Some messages from Sunday that I loved were: Claudio D Zivic - Endure and you shall triumph! Henry B. Eyring - It's your choice to receive the Spirit into your life. Dallin H. Oaks - Be civil and cheerful in personal interactions. And of course Dieter F. Uctdorf - Behold the man! I also noticed that a TON of hymns were quoted throughout the conference, which made me super happy because most of the hymn books down here are in Spanish.
So some things about this week:
I feel like my Spanish improves in leaps and bounds when we hermanas decide to use only Spanish at meal times! It also helps us really get to know some of the latinas better, and it's super fun! For some reason (I think it may be the fact that we mess up so much jaja) we seriously laugh so much more when we try to speak in Spanish! This week we were introducing ourselves to some Latino Elders sitting at the table next to us, and so they wanted to know how to pronounce my name, so I said, " It's like 'row row row... su... boat!" jajaja because i didn't know the word for row or for boat, and i used air finger quotes when i said boat, and for some reason we all thought it was the funniest thing ever! Also, they don't sing Row row row your boat in south america!! So i'm sure they thought i was just super weird jaja, but that's just fine :)
We also (Hermana Agasen and I) have been improving a lot with our investigators! Our gospel Spanish is getting a lot better, and seriously we have had some good progression! Not as much as the other hermanas, but really that doesn't matter! We have been doing our best to really listen to what the investigators are feeling and follow the spirit in our lessons. We were supposed to teach yesterday, but our normal maestra was sick, so the sub (who is a meastro names Hermano Sosa who we all love dearly because he is SO SO funny) had us draw for it, and we didn't get to go! But it was ok since we got extra study time.
Also! Feliz Pascua! I hope everyone got to paint eggs and eat chocolate to their heart's content, cuz i didn't jajaja
Lots and lots of love!! Have a happy week!!
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