I`m doing great and happier than ever!!! Conference was great and I sure learned a lot. We had 3 investigators come to conference and they enjoyed it a lot. Now I am reviewing my notes and making specific plans to apply and put in to practice what I learned and felt that I must do. The zone is doing great as well, we have 11 baptisms planned in the zone this weekend!!! The zone is excited and we are definitely seeing improvement here in the zone of Moroñas.
Happy Birthday on Sunday Colin!!! Please don`t kill Moby with your new driving abilities... no I know you`ll do great! I love you so much and I`m so proud to hear that both you and Mason watched all 5 sessions of General Conference. What is something that you learned from conference? I did not get the conference snacks in time but it was probably for the better, because I lost 2 more pounds this week! (Those conference snacks probably would have undone that, haha.). But I will probably be receiving it tomorrow. Grandpa Bruce and Grandma Rosie wrote me a letter and I want to write them back but I don`t have their address, can you send me their address in next weeks email? Some of my garments are also starting to wear out... They don`t have my favorite material here in Uruguay... Drylux... can you send me 4 pairs of garments (shorts - mediums and shirts - XL). They would be well appreciated! Thanks, I love you so much.
I loved this conference and learned so much!!! I really liked all the talks about missionary work and one of the talks really stood out ot me that I wasn`t expecting... the one about ¨how to raise a daughter¨, I felt like that was definitely directed right at me for when I start my own family in the future (patriarchal blessing). I was really suprised to hear that they are going to build a second temple in Provo, wow. It is needed though, especially with BYU right there next to the first one! Did you get the chance to invite someone else to watch general conference with you?
I really loved the message about the Book of Mormon and the Name of the Church, those would have been great talks for nonmembers. Conference was great but now comes the most important part of conference.... Applying all that we learned and felt from the Spirit. We must not wait a day or especially we must not wait until the Ensign comes out to start applying what we learned... Review the notes that you took and start making plans and goals to get what the Lord wants us to get out of General Conference by applying what we learned. I`m already feeling betters and receiving the blessings for the things I have changed and am already changing. I invite all to do the same. Coming from one who was once a very big procrastinator... I testify that the best and only way to have a change of heart is to act immediately upon the promptings and instructions that we receive. If we wait... It will be too late and then repentence will be necessary and it will be even harder to apply the teaching and counsel of the prophets and apostles. Take some time out of your day today, maybe for FHE or as part of your personal study of the scriptures to make and carry out the plans necessary to make these changes today and in this week that we have felt we need to do during conference.
Christ lives and gave His life so that we could make these changes through repentance and through His Atonement. As we do these things, we will grow closer to Him and understand a little more of the love that He has for us. We will have a change of heart and we will become the instruments and servants that He needs to work miracles in the lives of those around us. I love my Savior and am forever dedicated to this great cause... as Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said... We are at war! Christ is our captain and leader, unless we are under His ranks and command, we will fall and lose the battle. But if we are with him... We cannot lose. We are all enlisted!
Love,
Elder Gardner
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