Week 53: Week of Conference

So, this week had a lot of conference in it for me! I'll explain that a little later haha first, at the beginning of this week we had a miracle happen! We went to go visit a less active member, and he wasn't home. Sounds like a good miracle, right? Well, we decided to do a little contacting in the area, and so we started with a prayer. The first man we talked to was interested and talked to us for a bit, and said he would like to come to church sometime! 

After the contact, we prayed to thank Heavenly Father for that blessing and then continued to contact people. A few people later, we met another man who said he would really be interested in coming to church, and he actually lives pretty close to us. This was all in a matter of 20 minutes! Then we had to go catch the bus to make it home in time. 

When we were on the bus, a man sat next to me and asked "Are you paid to do what you do, or is it just faith?" and that sparked an incredible conversation and friendship! He turned out to be a 26 year old lawyer who had studied at UCLA, was French, spoke 5 languages, had worked on a case for Chevron (just another connection haha), and had already read the Book of Mormon! We talked with him for a while as he walked home, and he said he was super interested and he was also super open! So, even though we didnt get to teach the less active, the Lord knew where we needed to be and made a way for us to be there!

On Friday we had Zone Conference, and that was awesome as always! We had to give another training, which went well, and then Président Poznanski gave us our new goal for the end of the year! It's that every companionship in the mission brings a family to Christ by Christmas! Everyone is super excited about it! Also at the conference, I got to talk to an Elder from Thailand! He's from Chiang Mai and it was super cool to talk to him!

Then there was General Conference. What an amazing weekend! I hope everyone got to watch or listen to General Conference, because it really was incredible! Also, there are now 15 million members of the church! That's awesome! 

A few things that I loved from conference were these paraphrased quotes:

Elder Ulisses Saores: We will avoid detours and sadness in life if we walk hand in hand with the Lord.

Elder Edward Dube: Faith always points to the future.

President Monson: Home Teaching - Teach, Inspire, and Motivate!

Also from President Monson, the poem that he cited that said "Good timber does not grow with ease."

It was an inspiring weekend and if you haven't already, I challenge all of you to watch every session of conference! I know the Spirit will testify to you fo the things that you can do in your life to bring yourself closer to the Savior! I know it worked for me!

Have an incredible week!

Elder Daniel Anderson