Transfers and conference!

Well, after 10 months in the zone Industrial, I´m off to the zone Linda Vista (good view) in the area of Nacional 1 (National 1). Yup. Elder Lainez is from Hondurus. Finally another small brown companion! Elder Carter took my spot and I took his - a nice switch.

Well, this last week Elder Coulter and I contacted a lot.  I’ve never missed a session of conference in my whole life, but I missed my first sessions of conference Saturday due to the fact that we didn’t have people to take (it’s a rule in the mission that if you don’t have anyone to take to conference, you can’t attend). I was a little bummed, but we hit the streets with an urgency to work hard and to be obedient. I thought of a building that we had found due to a reference from a contact of Elder Stevens. We headed there and began to knock. A family of four let us in and the dad broke down and told us how we had come at the perfect time, as things were going rough for them. We talked about the atonement and then Jesus’ baptism. They all felt the spirit and accepted baptismal dates for next Saturday.  They came to general conference on Sunday. I hope that Elder Carter and Elder Coulter can help the family keep their baptismal date. It was cool to see the blessings of working a lot and not staying at conference when we didn’t have people. Cool beans.

I hope that I can do great things for the mission and my companion here in Nacional 1. It is different, but I´ll just keep working my hardest with urgency and the spirit. I have the faith that miracles will happen.

We use the Book of Mormon is almost every contact. I can feel more and more the power of its witness every time I bear simple testimony of it and turn its pages. It is a true and powerful book, a living witness of Jesus the Christ. It is so true that we can grow closer to God reading the Book of Mormon that any other book. Jesus is the Christ; His church has been restored. Heavenly Father loves us. Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God and Joseph Smith truly was a prophet. You can just feel it as you read the Book of Mormon. I have read it a lot and every time I can know for myself that it is true and that it helps me. I love sharing it with people, knowing that they´ll be able to feel the power of it as well. It is all just so true. I love you, mama Jane! and all the family as well!