What a joy it is to write you in light of the recent General Conference. It was a very interesting few days as I spent much of it at members homes eating their food, relaxing on their couch and treasuring the words of the Lord through his prophets and apostles. A little missionary heaven break. Before I get to conference let me give you a little recap of this week:
On Wednesday, we had an incredible lesson with R***** about the Plan of Salvation. We went up to the Atonement and didn't talk about death or anything after that. But it was a very spirit filled lesson. He's really starting to feel comfortable with us and ask us questions.... always a good thing. We hope he had a good experience at conference this weekend and that he felt the spirit strongly.
We then biked about 15 miles to our dinner appointment with a less-active/ part-member home. The husband is an incredible chef and we had some good shrimp scampi. We played UNO with the 11 year old and gained his trust. For some reason he has a bad misconception at what Mormons are all about, he's obviously watched WAY too much t.v. Well, we'll try to clear that up and get him and his mom back to church.
The next day we contacted some former investigators and such. We contacted a lady named M*****, she came to the open house that we had a few weeks ago and we finally got in and talked to her. She's an active Baptist, but funnily enough she has defended our church as not being a cult in her former church. She's great, open-minded and long winded... she talked to us for 2 hours! Even when after an hour we told her we needed to go. Well, she doesn't think she can change but she has said she'll read and pray about the Book of Mormon (little does she know the change that that can make!). We also met a man who had formerly investigated the church, and on the records there was no indication to why he had stopped being visited. So we stopped by, and he came outside and I could just tell that he was miserable. He's going through a divorce right now, has 4 kids under the age of 10... I think and is just so sad. We quickly bore him our testimony about the Book of Mormon. The way it can help change your life and told him we'd come back a different day. Our hope is that we can get the ward in there and have them just wrap their arms around him and help him out! That will be a project we'll be shooting to make happen this week.
As for conference. I was in heaven. I loved every minute of it! Favorite talks include: Elder Scott, Elder Oaks, Elder Ballard and of course: Elder Holland! I loved it all a lot!
Well, family I love you. I'm trying to help a man fill out a job application for a trucking company. Hopefully the Book of Mormon in my hand will be his... wish me luck!
Love,
Elder T. Davies
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