Weekly Letter April 4th 2016
Hey guys, I hope you've all had a great week.
This week on Monday we were able to travel to the capital and stay the night with the assistants and the other zone leaders outside the capital and they we were able to have a leaders' meeting with President and Sister Crapo. We returned to Teculutan by bus and we arrived with enough time to welcome back Jonathan Gongora, a missionary from our branch who just returned from the Dominican Republic. We're really excited to have Jonathan here because he should be able to visit investigators with us and might even be called as our branch mission leader.
On Friday two Elders from a nearby area, Elder Ramirez and Elder Sorenson, cam to our area to work with us for a day. Elder Ramirez is from Tocoa Colon, Honduras and Elder Sorenson is from Provo, Utah. It was great to be able to work with them and we had a lot of success that day in finding new people and inviting people to come until Christ through baptism.
On Saturday and Sunday we watched general conference here in Teculutan on a projector that we rented. On Saturday morning like 5 people showed up, in the afternoon about 3 people, and in the priesthood session 1 person (these numbers are excluding the missionaries). Sunday was a little better with like 40 people in the morning and like 6 in the afternoon. For some reason it's taboo in Latin America (from what I've seen) to stay in your house and watch conference. We watched the sessions in Spanish of course and even though I understand what is said the translators express no emotion and when jokes are told the audience laughter is cut out and overall it makes conference a little dry but nevertheless I could feel the power of the speakers' messages and enjoyed the conference.
As we participate in general conferences and other church meetings, we obey the Lord's commandment given in section 43 of the Doctrine and Covenants: "And now, behold, I give unto you a commandment, that when ye are assembled together ye shall instruct and edify each other, that ye may know how to act and direct my church, how to act upon the points of my law and commandments, which I have given."
Of one of the first General Conferences of the church in this dispensation, a meeting of a few men in a log cabin, it was written in the Times and Seasons that the conference "created within us a sensation of rapturous gratitude and inspired us with fresh zeal and energy in the cause of truth". I hope that we will study the conference messages so that we too might be newly filled with gratitude, zeal, and energy. Love you guys, have a great week.
-Elder Dawson
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