Pretty average week this week. Besides General Conference. That's always fun. Last p-day we didn't do anything special like most p-days. Just sat around the flat. We've been pretty blessed though, we have 4 investigators on baptismal date. So a lot of the week we spent running around and visiting them as often as possible to make sure they're still on track. Thursday we went to do service with a member to mow her lawn, but her lawn mower wasn't working and she was gone, so we mowed the whole thing with a weed wacker. I guess the yard wasn't that big but it took a little longer. Oh yeah, here they call them whipper snippers.
On Friday we went to visit a potential investigator we had door knocked into the day before. He was pretty friendly and things. The zone leaders want us to start focusing on baptism while were teaching, so that every principle that we teach talks about baptism in some way. So we taught the Restoration, we talked about how Heavenly Father loves us and wants us to return to Him through baptism (he told us he had been baptized into the Baptist church), how priesthood authority to perform baptism was restored, etc. etc., And I was so excited about this new initiative the zone leaders were encouraging, so I invite him to be baptized, and he said he's already been baptized a few times, but he'd pray about it, we talked about how reading the Book of Mormon and praying would give him an answer, he said he had no problems believing the Book of Mormon was true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet, then I went for the home run and tried committing him to baptized November 12 or something, he said he'd pray about it, and I was so excited we were gonna set another baptismal date, and then he says "But if I do decide I need to get baptized again, it'll be into the baptist church." NYEH! UGH Well we'll have to try again because we could've covered some stuff a bit better.
Saturday was General Conference. We set up a projector and stuff in the chapel. The only people there besides us missionaries were the President Bells. There's President Bell the Elder, who serves in the district presidency, and his son, President Bell the Younger, who's the Atherton Branch President. Priesthood session a couple other brothers from the branch came but overall pretty much everyone watched it at home (I hope). That night we visited a couple investigators. During the day there was this big birthday party that all the Islanders in the area went to, so that's where a few of the members were, and they had killed and cooked up a couple pigs to eat. One of our investigators that we visited somehow ended up with the head of one of them so he gave it to us to eat. Pretty crazy.
Sunday there was maybe 4 or 5 people besides us for the General Conference sessions. I really liked David A Bednar's talk about how we come to know Christ and Russell M Nelsons talk about having joy. I also really liked Elder Cornish's talk on Saturday about how we shouldn't compare our spiritual progress with others, but that where we are in the gospel should be between us and the Lord. That helped me a lot because I often get overwhelmed with confusion over whether I'm doing good enough to get into the celestial kingdom. Besides that all is well. I'll attach some pics of the pig head. Cheers.
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