Family members of the Shaw family!!!!, conference was stinkin amazing! We got to watch all the sessions of conference including priesthood which ended at 11 at night. I personally have never gotten so much out of conference like i did this last time! It was amazing and really changed me. I loved all of the talks and all of Saturday i was able to watch it in English also. I could go on forever about the talks that were given.(and mother i took fantastically detailed notes on every speaker, i expect my candy bar later on)! I truly learned alot and am super excited to try and apply the principles taught. Some of my favorites.... wow which one... i really really loved Andersons talk Saturday, with faith comes trial of faith which can one increase your faith or diminish your trust in the Lord. It makes no sense to step away from the kingdom of God when you most need his help. It would be like stepping outside the storm shelter right as the storm comes into view. Also moroni 9:? saying don’t condemn me for my errors but thank God for recognizing them so that you are more wise. It applies very well to Paraguay! I also LOVED elder Bednards talk about testimony and conversion!!! In alma 23:? when it talks about the people of Ammon and how, when they came to the knowledge of the truth by the preaching of Ammon ACCORDING to the spirit THEY WERE ALL CONVERTED TO THE LORD, and not one fell away! I loved that, his focus on how we need to be converted to the Lord and not to the missionaries or to the auxiliary organizations, or the leaders, or just straight up tradition, but to the Lord!
So we met a family last Thursday, We were walking and it was very hot and we saw a man walking very fast along the road on the others side, i got the impression to cross the street and talk to him. As we talked he told us he had recently lost his job and wanted us to pass by his house. Thursday we had a lesson, Friday we went with the stake pres. to visit him, Saturday we taught them and Sunday they came to the conference with their whole family. They have 3 children... and man!! does Elder Holdand deliver or what! He always pulls through. Our investigators loved his talk and absolutely loved the conference! I am super excited for this new family they are great and are excited to prepare for a baptism and already have friends in the church and everything. But really Elder Holland is amazing. A minor points that i really like is at the beginning how he introduced the apostasy a little, explain the short amounts of time he had to change the bad customs and call very young leaders among these very new converts to the church and how it truly could not sustain itself. I am going to start using that as i teach!
And the women that spoke in the Saturday morning session that talked about I’m Mormon, i know it, i love it, and i live it! i loved her talk!! It was awesome, i wanted to cry listening to it. Also i would love to get my hands on a copy of elder Uctdorfs talk during the priesthood session about the power of priesthood. There was too much doctrine i could not write it all down. I want to study that talk. ITS GOLD!
all in all i hope that you all loved the conference as much as i cause it is life changing. It is so easy to see that these men truly are inspired and called of god! Any denomination could listen to them and would agree and based on the doctrine taught, especially elder holland touching the apostolic keys being restored, obviously this is the true church of Christ. I have found that all denomination allow one to progress to a certain point but only one can literally give you all that the father hath. It was interesting how many times that was said in conference. That we can have all that the father hath! The church is really focusing on the service and characteristics of a Christianity. I love the church!
This week we have interviews with president and i am super excited for that! But everything is going very well! Nicolas, my convert here is struggling we are helping him. It isn’t that he has lost his testimony, its that he is putting his family over the church and not going to church that he can visit his family that lives in Asuncion but he promised this week that he was going to go!! raul and rubi are SUPER FIRM!
i love you all and enjoy the cold, cause it’s not cold here!
elder shaw
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