Hello Everyone!
General
Conference was really great! I really liked the talks by Elder Kearon
and Elder Uchtdorf! I really loved the focus on service (especially
humanitarian service) and repentance and forgiveness. We always have to
opportunity to change and become better people and we become closer to
Christ. We were able to watch all the sessions at our church building
and we were able to bring some investigators to the Sunday morning
session.
The whole mission
flipped out a little bit because our old mission president, Candido
Fortuna, was called to be an area seventy! There was a little bit of
gossip going around before the conference because an RM told someone
here that President Fortuna had been staying in Utah the week before
conference, so rumors spread that he was going to be a seventy, and it
came true! haha. Elder Duncan, the seventy, also spoke in the
conference, he has visited us a few times because he is assigned to
Central America.
We
were able to go visit with this one family that we are teaching and
celebrate my birthday a little bit. Their (now) three year old son has
the same birthday as me so they threw a little party for us and invited
the other elders and some families in the ward, so that was fun, and
cake was involved. haha.
We found
this guy Rodelio contacting and he is super great! He is like 65 and
really receptive. In the first lesson we had with him, he accepted the
invitation to pray, to read, to go to church, and to be baptized! Elder
Johnson and I almost could´t believe it. We came back on Saturday and
had a really great lesson about the book of Mormon and the plan of
salvation and the spirit was really strong. On Sunday morning we went
by to pick him up for conference and we was all ready to go. He really
loved the conference and was able to make some friends in the church.
Hopefully he keeps progressing at this speed!
Our
old investigator Emelina called us out of the blue this morning after
we hadn´t been able to get in contact with her for weeks! She wants to
come back to Tegucigalpa to find work and come back to church! She had
been reading the book of Mormon and praying that whole time we hadn´t
been able to contact her. She had been staying with family in some
pueblo out in the middle of nowhere where there isn´t even a signal for a
phone, so she kind of disappeared for a while. If she doesn't move
back to our area, we will get her in contact with other missionaries.
We were just so happy to make contact with her again and that everything
seems to be going well.
If you haven't yet, go and watch Conference! Have a great week!
- Elder Burnham
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