This week was pretty good! Not much happened today, but General Conference was definitely the highlight of this Easter weekend.
I especially enjoyed Elder Holland's talk. I have fallen in love with his talks and his powerful boldness as he bears testimony. Sadly, only one of our investigators came to Conference (N.), but she seemed to really enjoy it! Her younger sister A., who's already a member, actually had a really cool experience! We had just watched the Sunday morning session and went to eat dinner at their house. As soon as we finished dinner, we shared a short message about the Atonement. After the message, A. told us she had a question. The question she asked us was a question we could not give a straight answer to. We all discussed it for about 10 minutes and we didn't really come to a single conclusion. She kind of shrugged it off but was still left wanting an answer. We soon left their house and all went over to the chapel to watch conference. We weren't watching the session in the same room as her since she was watching it in spanish with her mom in the relief society room. We had all kind of forgotten about the question she had asked and were enjoying the excellent talks being given. Near the end of the session, Elder Hales was talking and something incredible happened. Elder Hales answered the exact question that A. had asked just a couple hours before during dinner. He answered it simply and plainly and I immediately remembered the question. As soon as conference ended, I hustled over to the Relief Society room to see if A.i was listening. As soon as I saw her I said, "Did you see him answer your exact question??" and she just nodded and smiled so big and her mom was crying due to the spiritual experience. We had been telling A. all week that preparing to watch conference with a question in mind really helps you to receive answers, and after this experience, she knows it. It was a great experience and I'm sure that her sister, N., learned from the experience as well.
Yesterday, after conference, we were knocking doors in a trailer park near the church. We knocked on this door and a very old white woman walked to the door. We told her who we were and why we were there. She then proceeded to tell us that she had recently moved here from Pennsylvania about a year ago after her husband had passed away. She told us that she was planning on her daughter taking care of her but she said she had abandoned her. At this moment she started to cry and I felt so sad for her. She said she would really love someone to talk to about God. I'm really glad we found her because it's clear that she really needs the gospel.
We had another great experience on Tuesday! We were biking to E''s apartment and as soon as we pulled into the parking lot, this car drove up by us, stopped, and a man about our age walked out and called out to us. He asked "are you english missionaries?" We told him no, then he told us that he's been wondering how he could join our church. I was dumbfounded. I honestly thought he was kidding at first, but then he began telling us that he has a bad history and he's been wanting to change and give his life over to God. He told us he has a Grandma in Spanish Fork who is a member and she had told him to contact some English missionaries. We gave him the number of the English missionaries and they taught him at the church that same day! He even came to conference yesterday and he loved it! It was good to see the Lord help him find what he was looking for.
That's pretty much it for this week! I'm sad conference is over, but I'm counting down the days until we have another one in October! I miss you all and love you so much!
Love,
Elder Joshua Thayne
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| Dinner at President and Sister Alarcon's house. |
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| This picture was sent to me by Brother Alarcon (Branch mission leader). Here was his caption: We had Banana splits yesterday and Elder Thayne put the ice cream on top of the unpeeled bananas haha idk what he was thinking ... It was funny. |
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