My email this week might end up being pretty short, not because there wasn't stuff that happened this week, but because we don't have much time today since we're going to be going fishing pretty soon here ;)
Anyway, this weekend was Stake Conference and it was pretty awesome! There were quite a few awesome talks, with some good counsel, things to work on, funny stories, and sweet quotes shared. A couple of my favorite quotes were: "Your Faith will never be greater than the lesser of your knowledge or your obedience." and "You can't get out of Straits, you must go through them by either going forward or backward."
Aside from the awesome Stake Conference, there were a couple other cool miracles that happened, like getting to play tennis early (at like 6:30am) one morning with a member here, and having some sweet visits with people throughout the week. One sweet visit we had was with Sister Harper, who is planning on getting baptized on July 12th, and we talked about Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy and the spirit was just super strong. She already knew the principle of it, but it was awesome to be able to talk about it with her and have the spirit there promising some incredible blessings. She ended up coming out to stake conference yesterday, which was awesome!
We also had a pretty cool lesson with Taylor this last week with Oscar there, when we talked about the second half of the plan of salvation - what happens when we die. Before we got into the second half, we reviewed the first half of it with her and she was pretty much teaching it to us, which was a neat experience. It's interesting to see the points that they retain a couple weeks after being taught something, especially with how they explain it back to us. I don't know how many of you have ever considered how to explain the questions of "Where did we come from?" or "Where are we going?" to someone who doesn't know much of anything about God, but it's a neat experience to be able to help them see that this life has more purpose than just the day to day grind of living.
On a totally random note, some scriptures that were shared at stake conference or that I found throughout the week that were pretty cool were:
- 2 Nephi 31
- Mark 10:17-21
- John 6:66-69
- D&C 18:10,15-16
- Alma 36:3
- Helaman 6:3
- Alma 5:26
- Helaman 13:38
- Helaman 15:7-9
- 3 Nephi 4:8-10
- 3 Nephi 5:13
- 3 Nephi 7:18-20
- 3 Nephi 7:21-26
- 3 Nephi 9:20
- Plus, a cool talk I found in my old notes: https://www.lds.org/
general-conference/2005/10/ jesus-christ-the-master-healer
That's all for this week! I hope y'all have a fantastic week! Love y'all!
'Til Next Time,
Elder Jordan Nielson
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