So we had zone conference this week. The Elder who is over the cars was talking to us about our cars and stuff. To end he said that he didn't have any scriptures about cars, but he did hear that Christ and His apostles left in one accord.
Anyways, this week was a good week. Larry and Maria got married on Tuesday!! Bishop Lopez married them. It was a very simple and short wedding done in the bishop's office. It was really awesome. Bishop Lopez talked a little bit about The Family Proclamation, and it is so true that families are so important here on this earth, but also after this life as well. It was also an extra missionary opportunity because Maria had her daughter there, and her daughter also brought her boyfriend. Maria also loves the iron rod analogy and how we have to cling to it. She mentioned it during the wedding service, and Bishop Lopez made the joke about holding to the rod we use to whip our spouse into shape haha. But we got to explain what it meant to hold to the iron rod to Maria's daughter since she had no idea about it. Also, Maria's daughter looked a little shocked and surprised when Bishop Lopez mentioned this being a great step in leading Maria to baptism. But it was good.
Also, Nadia is on date for baptism now! She has been investigating for awhile now, and she knows that she wants to be baptized (it is a slightly long and complicated story to tell why she isn't baptized yet), but she texted us Wednesday morning saying she has decided to be baptized on November 11th! We are so happy that she has set a date now!
Thursday we had zone conference. It was good, as they always are. Setting goals and making plans was re emphasized once again, but it is so true that we can't progress, or at least not as fast as we would like to, if we don't set goals and then make plans. We also talked about using The Book of Mormon some more. I mean, The Book of Mormon is one of the most important things we can read and use in our own conversion as well in helping others be converted.
Spanish area for the first time. I understood maybe 50-75% of what was being said, but I didn't say a whole lot when teaching. We also met a lady (I think she was a potential investigator in the Spanish area) who was annoyed that I didn't speak Spanish, and then she didn't believe and was bothered by the fact that my last name was Smith. She then proceeded to get mad at us for about 10 minutes and basically told us not to come back (I didn't completely understand the conversation, but I could tell she was not happy).
A cool story from exchanges though was we went to this door of an apartment type home, and as we were walking up, there were some kids coming down stairs. I can't remember the name of the person we were looking for, but we asked the kid the name of the person who was living there (since they said that the person there was their grandma or something). The name the kid told us didn't match the name we were looking for, and we told her who we were looking for. Well, this kid's name happened to be the same as the person we were looking for. Long story short, we asked to speak to the kid's mom. She took us up, met the mom, taught her some, and we were able to set a return appointment. Even though we didn't find the person we were looking for, we found someone else. So that was great!
Saturday, it was the beginning of General Conference! It seems so weird that it is General Conference again because I feel like we just had it. How time flies! Throughout it all, I think the biggest point that was discussed was that we can't forget that we have divine worth and potential. We are children of God. How great is that?!
Yesterday was good. It was super long though with 3 wards and 3 ward councils. We started at 7:30am and didn't finish until 5:30pm (with a 30 minute lunch break in there). On the bright side, it was the Primary Program for all 3 wards. I love the Primary Program because even kids can testify son strongly of simple gospel truths. And they are super cute, too! Last night, we also went to a Bishop's Fireside for the youth at Bishop Lopez's home. It was really fun. What they did was they had a competition to see who could build the highest tower out of a select few items. After all that, they had to go through the "For the Strength of Youth" pamphlet and relate at least 3 of those topics to the activity we just did (btw, I was able to relate all of them to the activity). They went around to each group and and had them say the topic and how it related. I think my favorite was a girl stood up and said dating because it talks about how a date should be planned, and if not, it could be a disaster like some of the structures that were built. The point in this activity though was that all things can be related back to the gospel somehow. This is very true. We can take anything, and find some gospel principle to talk about. We just have to be aware of the things around us.
Also, this morning we played sand volleyball at a park. It was really fun, but it was like the worst sand ever. It was basically rocks ground up, and it wasn't very fine. We even found lots of rocks in the sand. On the bright side though, my feet are nice and smooth from all the exfoliation they got from that sand.
Anyways, I love y'all!
Sister Smith
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