Weekly Letter October 5, 2015
Hey everyone, hope you've all had a great week.
This week we had leaders' meeting in the capital. We talked a lot about pride and the negative effect it has on the work. Pride was identified as a spiritual cancer that results in disobedience. Interesting conference. On Wednesday we relayed the information from the leaders' meeting to our zone and played a couple of games. Went really well. Overall I enjoy being a leader and I love my zone. We are seeing success and are overall a group of obedient, hard-working missionaries.
This week I met a guy named Jason while contacting some people in the street. Jason is from Honduras and he recently (about 3 months ago) moved to Guatemala with some cousins and brothers. They have other family members who are members of the church but they are not members. Jason let us into his home where we had a lesson with 8 people, six of who accepted a baptism invitation and date. These guys have had some problems in the past, likely have gang involvements and told us they smoke marijuana. They seem to have a real desire to repent though and Heavenly Father let us meet so they can have a chance to change their lives. They are all really new in the area so if they can start to make friendships with members of the church they could have good influences and start new lives. If they've ever had a chance to change their lives, it's now.
This week we also had a chance to watch general conference. In our stake they prepare a room for us with the English transmission which is really nice because listening to a translation is not nearly as powerful. This conference I noticed an emphasis in teaching the importance of the sabbath day, a defense against agnosticism, a stress on righteousness=happiness, the importance of women and the family in general, standards, and faith.
I hope we might treasure the counsel we have received from church leaders this weekend. Truly these messages come from God and not from the wisdom of man. President Joseph F. Smith, referring to the leaders of the church, said, "These mighly men who sit before this stand clothed in power from Almighty God, are not self-called. They have not been chosen by man. They have not chosen themselves, but they have been called by the power of the almighty to stand in high places in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as presidents as fathers to the people, as counselors, as judges, and as leaders, walking
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