Well hello everyone!
This week was pretty good, we of course had the wonderful oppourtunity to go to general conference, which was excellent this year. We watched it at the stake center just here close by, on saturday it was just Elder Terry and I watching it in spanish, and on Sunday there was a few members, and Raul and Cruz both came, and we're fairly sure they'll get baptized this weekend, if not the next. Priesthood session was excellent, nothing like a Jeffery R. Holland wake up call to get some young men moving. There was some great talks on Sunday as well, I loved the ones about the Book of Mormon, its something really cool. The weather here has been great, its cooling off and starting to feel like fall.
On Sunday morning we also had another cool oppourtunity. I guess it starts a few weeks ago, we met a guy in Wal-mart, and he said he had a few questions for us. He said he had been studying our doctrine, because in their church they had been doing a world religions class, and he was going to teach the one about the doctrine of them Mormons. He was asking us some super deep doctrine questions, we answered the best we could, though reffering him to the Kolob Theorom might have been a better solution with his kind of questions. But anyways, we offered to come to his church and teach the class. He said that would probably be alright. A couple days later, he called us back and asked us if we were available to come and teach it on the given day. We agreed, asked permission from our mission president, President Wall, and invited him to come as well. So us and the english missionaries we live with went out to their church, accompanied by President Wall, and we taught the message of the restoration. I taught the first half of the restoration, talking about Prophets, Christs ministry and atonement, and about the apostasy. The concept of apostasy is hard for some people to understand, but I think most of them at least kind of did. One of the english missionaries, Elder Toll, shared the rest, and there was a very strong spirit during the first vision. He explained the book of Mormon, and then we had some time for questions. Most of the questions were things like "Do you still have these gold plates?" and "so where does it talk about this in the Bible?" and "are there any other evidences of the Book of Mormon?" We answered them simply, and of course always reffered that studying it and asking God is the best way to know if its true. One question we were asked was by a fairly sincere guy, who told us that he was raised to believe that Joseph Smith was terrible person, a raging drunk, was in and out of jail and that all the mormons were terrible people for following a guy like him. But as he got older he saw the great examples of Donnie and Marie Osmand, and other mormons that he met, and figured they werent so bad after all. His question was: how do you know that Joseph Smith was the kind of man that could be a prophet? President Wall had an excellent answer to this question, which was that his great-great-grandfather was a personal close friend of Joseph Smith, and that his journal had been preserved in his family. So he didnt have to listen to other outside stories that had been twisted and some of the outright lies that are floating around out there, he had his own family record of the young prophet. Overall, I think the people were pretty receptive, and there might be potential to go and teach a few of them personally.
So, those two things were basically the highlights of our week, and I dont remember a whole lot else. Though I realized I sitll hadnt sent a picture of me and my new companion, who now isnt really new, since weve been together 5 weeks, so heres one attached. His name is Elder Terry. He is from Provo. We actually figured out he knows my cousin Rick! They used to live in the same neighboorhood. Small world. Hes pretty cool, he does photography and some other art stuff, and skates and bikes. Were actually going to go biking out on some trails today! So anyways, thats about it until next week!
-Elder Cardon
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| Elder Cardon and Elder Terry |
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