Last week was a pretty crazy week with district meeting,
Consejo de líderes with Presidente Franco, and preparing all of our
investigators for conference. My companion and I were all over the place. On
thursday Presidente Franco gave a capacitación (i honestly dont know how to say
that in english) for all the zone leaders and it was really amazing. For about
an hour he just told us about a ton of changes that he is making to the mission
and everything that will be happening. Crazy to see how different he is from
our last mission president yet they are both equally amazing men in the gospel.
After he talked about the mission stuff he instructed us on how to properly
conduct a baptismal interview. Last friday I did a baptismal interview and it
was by far the hardest one I have ever done. I have never been instucted on how
to conduct a baptismal interview i just read everything it said in PME but
there are situationes and cercumstances that PME doesnt cover. So while I
called Presidente Franco to asked him a few questions about the person who I
was interviewing he told me that there are a lot of Elders calling him about
situations with Baptismal interviews and asked me if it would be a good idea to
talk about it the next thursday. Of course I said yes. After he finished
talking to us I leaned to my companion and told him that I needed to have that
help a week ago!! The interview was very complicated and I was praying the
whole time that the Lord would help me. I didnt do it perfectly but the Lord
did help me and in the end everything was wroked out the way it was supposed to
be.
General Conference was amazing!! I watched the whole thing
in spanish again and even though I still dont understand 100 percent of
everything, I understand about 95% and the other 5% I either look up or just
guess. I loved hearing the talks in spanish and it definately makes a huge
difference for the spanish speaking people. After the chinese guy talked and
Elder Christofferson said "Buenos Días" in the micraphone, Everybody
in the church got super excited for a second because they thought he was going
to give his whole talk in spanish. But he didnt :( Something cool is that Elder
Christofferson served in this mission back when it was part of the Rosario
mission and served in my area in Corrientes. the same church and everything.
Well I dont have much more time but I am glad that we have a
modern day prophet and I enjoyed greatly all of the talks that spoke about
President Monson and his calling as our prophet. I dont remember who said it
but I love the words that said when we lift our right had to sustain our
leaders, we are committing to "seguirles callados" or quitely follow
them. We must support and encourage them in their calling and do all that we
can to help. Under nooo circumstances are we to critisize or speake poorly
about the decisions they make.
I love this church and I know that it is not a church lead
by men, but by Jesus Christ himself.
Love Elder Andrson (Joe)
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