Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Letter 04-08-2014

Lots of things happened this week!

- We had a fun district meeting on Wednesday where we talked about setting expectations to get to church. We created mini lesson plans for doing so.
- We found a family that is super prepared and ready to be baptized! :) :) :)
- Conference of course! We spent time over at the Archuletas for the morning session. David has two younger siblings that both play Pokémon, Fire Emblem, Rune Factory, etc. hahaha we all get along almost too well. I loved Elder Holland's talk from that session
- For the next session we went to the Despains... had some good talks there too
- Watched priesthood session at our investigator's house that's getting baptized on Saturday. Great talk by Elder Oaks.
- Sunday morning was at the Westenskows. WHAT A SESSION. Loved Elder Ballards talk, and really suggest you take his advice to study PMG. Elder Bednar's talk was really nice as well.
- Elder Bass had never been to conference before so we got tickets to sit right on the front row for the Sunday evening session! Always great to get to stand when President Monson comes in. Elder Christofferson's talk is probably my favorite from this year... It's very familiar to me b/c of President Monson's talk I think in May 2010. Very similar structure.
- Overall busy and happy and fun and stuffs.

--Elder Chandler
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thought: conference

I always appreciate when we get to hear the apostles special witnesses of Christ. That's one of the reasons why I loved both Elder Holland's and Christofferson's talks. As you combine their two sure witnesses, you see a powerful concept arise.

1) Christofferson - Christ is a living, resurrected being
2) Holland - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has God's restored priesthood keys

#1 gives all of Christendom merit. It is a truth, and Elder Christofferson does a great job stating just exactly what that means.
#2 gives our church additional merit. Again being truth, it means that sacred ordinances administered under the priesthood authority in the LDS church are recognized as saving.


Anyways it's always nice to be able to "lean on some trees of life" every once in a while if/when going through doubts or trials.

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