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Me and my district making cookies this morningWOW i love conference. And lucky me got an extra conference dosage this week cuz it was zone conference. Two missionaries that i really look up to a lot, Elder Funk (the missionary who was in the blue bathrobe) and Sister Jackson (the tall sister that you met when you came and visited, the light-haired one) gave their farewell testimonies. They are awesome examples to me as missionaries and i'm gonna miss em a whole bunch. The weird thing is, sister jackson came out 3months after me, and she's going home. Weirddddddd time is fast. But I loved general conference. I wish i could give a rundown, but that would take forever, and i didn't bring my notes with me. Off the top of my head, talks i like were: Pres Monson: he's so personable! I loved the rundown he gave of standards we should be living. Sister Beck: I was excited for her's cuz it's Jayni's aunt, but then started to zone out because it was all towards women (or so it seemed) but i really felt like i should listen and i was able to apply a lot of what she said to me and i learned a lot about personal revelation! It was great. Pres.Uchtdorf: All of his, especially the one on patience. It gave me new perspective towards that attribute and yeah, good stuff. Elder Martino: Great talk on following the Savior's example on facing and learning from trials. awesome. Elder Holland: I straight up love the conviction with how he speaks. He pretty much was like, Look, we're done messing around with this, here it is. It really motivated me to always have my guard up from all forms of pornography. FYI: there were 15,000 more convert baptisms in 2009 than 2008. Yeah!!!! SO i can't really remember too many more specifics, i guess that's why we take notes, haha. I"ll probably send a letter home with things i liked.
Cool story: Monday night we were walking around, and we got a call from a lady who was not happy. She had just watched a 2 hour documentary on the Mormons and was venting what she didn't like. Funny thing was, everything she said, i didn't like either, because NONE of it was true. She said that we forced men, women and children to walk across the pains in mud snow and ice and we wouldn't allow them to use horses. Wow. If it wasn't twisted completely, it was totally false. She said that we believed that Christ was burned at the stake, what the?! No idea where that came from. But she kept using NOT nice words and said terrible things. It was pathetic. For 2 1/2 minutes she just kept ranting and i couldn't get a word in to tell her that she was being ridiculous. Then she finished off with more not nice words and hung up. It really had me frustrated and down. I guess i could've hung up as soon as she started going off but then she'd be like, baaahhhh rude mormons!!! But it really made me sad that she was believing all of these lies. Then, 3 minutes later as we were walking to an appt we ran into Sis. Vaka ( the wife of the Tongan guy who called you) and her friend Linze who were are teaching and have been struggling to get a hold of. We were able to have a great chat with her and it really boosted me up and i could see that God sends us little miracles/tender mercies when we are down to build us up. I was really glad fro that.
Zone conference was good, i was able to find a lot of ways to improve my teaching. It was only the lethbridge zone so that was a bummer, i love the big gatherings. Another reason is i get to see Steven Wilson (from BYU), he's serving as an AP right not and he's the MAN. Elder Madsen is great. i was really nervous to train but he's making it awesome. He reminds me A LOT of Ryan Gray, best friend from BYU. They are similar in many ways so its almost like I'm serving with him. And we have a ping pong table in our apartment which makes life AWESOME. But life is good, as you know. Thanks for the pictures, they made my day! I love you all!
Elder Crippen
Cool story: Monday night we were walking around, and we got a call from a lady who was not happy. She had just watched a 2 hour documentary on the Mormons and was venting what she didn't like. Funny thing was, everything she said, i didn't like either, because NONE of it was true. She said that we forced men, women and children to walk across the pains in mud snow and ice and we wouldn't allow them to use horses. Wow. If it wasn't twisted completely, it was totally false. She said that we believed that Christ was burned at the stake, what the?! No idea where that came from. But she kept using NOT nice words and said terrible things. It was pathetic. For 2 1/2 minutes she just kept ranting and i couldn't get a word in to tell her that she was being ridiculous. Then she finished off with more not nice words and hung up. It really had me frustrated and down. I guess i could've hung up as soon as she started going off but then she'd be like, baaahhhh rude mormons!!! But it really made me sad that she was believing all of these lies. Then, 3 minutes later as we were walking to an appt we ran into Sis. Vaka ( the wife of the Tongan guy who called you) and her friend Linze who were are teaching and have been struggling to get a hold of. We were able to have a great chat with her and it really boosted me up and i could see that God sends us little miracles/tender mercies when we are down to build us up. I was really glad fro that.
Zone conference was good, i was able to find a lot of ways to improve my teaching. It was only the lethbridge zone so that was a bummer, i love the big gatherings. Another reason is i get to see Steven Wilson (from BYU), he's serving as an AP right not and he's the MAN. Elder Madsen is great. i was really nervous to train but he's making it awesome. He reminds me A LOT of Ryan Gray, best friend from BYU. They are similar in many ways so its almost like I'm serving with him. And we have a ping pong table in our apartment which makes life AWESOME. But life is good, as you know. Thanks for the pictures, they made my day! I love you all!
Elder Crippen
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