Hi everyone!
Yet another transfer has gone by! This transfer was 7 weeks instead of the normal 6 weeks. I can't believe it's already over. This transfer is going to be a normal one, just 6 weeks. As for transfer news, Elder Burt and I are both staying in Snow Canyon in St. George. I pretty much expected that at least I'd stay, since I've only been here a transfer.
Well this week wasn't the best. We only taught 8 lessons, and only 2 were nonmember lessons. The other 2 were recent convert lessons. Things just didn't really align. Every lesson we set up with our big investigator family fell through. We didn't get to meet with Bill because he wanted to skip a week. And one of our lessons with Kyler and Kayton (the Navajo kids we're teaching) fell through. And we
didn't have much luck with finding this week, so we didn't find any new investigators. And we'd usually split with the WMLs on their assigned nights (Enoch West style), but some of our evening schedules and their evening schedules were really weird, and it just didn't work out. It was just one of those weeks I guess. We tried and we worked, but just didn't pan out how we would have liked. We did a lot of service, but not as much teaching. It's okay though, because this week's going to be a lot better!
As most of you probably know, this past weekend was General Conference! We watched it at our recent converts' house. I just love being able to hear from living Prophets and Apostles! The messages were really good, and a much needed recharge for me. It was really good to hear from our Prophet, Thomas S. Monson. His messages were really short, no doubt because of his old age and health problems (he almost passed out last Conference when he was talking), but they were really good and really powerful. He's pretty good at this "short and sweet" thing. I would have loved very much to hear more from him, but it was good. I think one of my favorite talks was President Uchtdorf's about how Christ can rebuild us out of the ashes of our mistakes and trials and stuff, and also how obedience factors into that. One of my favorite quotes from him was: "Obedience is the life blood of Faith". Short, and simple yet profound. I wish I could say things like that. Anyway, I really enjoyed Conference, and it was cool to watch it with our recent convert family. It was their first time ever watching, and throughout the conference, we were able to help explain about who was talking, and explaining some of the principles they were talking about. It was awesome. I love it.
Have a great week! I miss you all!
-Elder Oswald
PS-Someone emailed this to Elder Burt. I thought it was a pretty clever bit of General Conference humor.
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