My new companion is great! We always call each other by "Elder" and then our last names or just Elder. Elder Stokes first name is Cameron so that would be really strange to call him that. He is a good worker and has lots of desires to baptize converts. He´s from Layton, Utah.
I watched conference in English here in the offices (two conferences in Jose Leon Suarez, two in San Fernando). We have the whole zone here and a good chunk of the stake. Two of the people that we are teaching came to the Sunday session of conference, Robbin, and Rosa. They both enjoyed the conference and are excited to keep progressing towards baptism.
I loved the conference! My favorite talk was Elder Rasband's. I felt the need to make the places I am places of holiness and spiritual protection. Here are the main points that I took away from the conference:
1. Personal testimony comes from personal commitment to experiment on the promises and commandments of God.
2. Joy comes from knowingly choosing to follow God
3. Compassion should not be conditional on the cause of another's suffering.
I feel like I left conference with a number of small impressions of adjustments that I need to make that will be important.
Haha, I did hear that D+C 121 reference. I think I understand it a little better now after hearing it used and explained in the context of that talk.
I'm glad that you and Dad had a good time in Walla Walla! I am grateful for the energy you two dedicate to being devoted parents. I too hope that we will always have a great relationship. In a recent stake conference, I was meditating on the scriptural pattern of parents teaching their children the gospel: Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah,etc. I was especially captured by the blessings and instructions that the fathers gave to their children. I know that the advice that you and dad give us is essential and precious. Thank you so much for that.
I love you!
Elder Smith
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