General Conference

Helloooo, everybody!

WATCH GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!!! Saturday and Sunday at 10am and.. 2pm I
think. You can watch it in any church building, or on lds.org.
Parents, you too. I would love for you each to watch at least one
session. I promise you will love it! I am sooo excited!!! This past
Saturday night was the Relief Society conference. It was really good
AND one of our investigators, Leila, came to it!!! We found her in the
beginning of our first cambio here. She is really receptive but takes
our lessons more in like an academic way than a spiritual way. It's
interesting. She believes in God but isn't super spiritual and so
sometimes it's hard for her to see the importance of all this. She
just likes to learn so she keeps meeting with us. She teaches high
school art classes, which is cool. But anyway, we always invite her to
church but she's never had a huge desire to go. But Friday we had a
good lesson with her and invited her to the conference Sat. And she
was like, Yeah! Haha and she came. It was awesome! She completely
CRIED even! I think that was the first time she's ever felt the spirit
like that. It was way cool. :)  But she left super fast after cause it
was late and her 6 year old son was with her. So, hopefully she will
start to progress more now.  :)

Sadly, Amalia decided to tell us she is not going to commit to going
to church more. She says she just doesn't have the desires to go to
church right now, the Church of Jesus Christ or any church, really. It
was super sad. Then she went on to bear her testimony of Joseph Smith
and the Book of Mormon. She said that she knows he was truly a prophet
of God, and that the Book of Mormon isn't a lie but true and holy
scripture. She knows that Joseph Smith was God's prophet and restored
Christ's church again on the earth. BUT... She doesn't  want to keep
going. Ahhhh. Some people, I will never understand. She's just scared.
Scared to leave behind her Evangelical church, because it's what she
grew up with. Scared to change. And so now, Rocio isn't progressing
any more either because well she's gonna follow what her mom does. But
Rocio knew way before Amalia that all this is true. It's so sad. But
what can we do? We aren't here to force anyone. We will continue to
stop by every now and then to see how they are doing and try to
motivate them to keep going. But that's about it.  :(

People in general just confuse me so much... When we say to them, Look
I know this is true, I know it because God has answered my prayers.
Listen to what we have to say but don't trust in what we say, ASK GOD
and He will tell you it is true.  Whhyyyyy don't more people want to
know???!!! How do they not understand? Ahh. It's hard. Because this
has brought me SO much joy, and is pretty much necessary for our
happiness in this live and our eternal salvation. Agh, I want everyone
to have this.

We have not seen very many fruits here so far, but we are still
working really hard. We are trying to keep positive and keep going,
knowing that we are doing the best we can and Heavenly Father will
help us to see the blessings/miracles later on.

I just wanted to close with the words to a Primary song, one of my
very favorites. It goes like this:

I'm trying to be like Jesus, I'm following in His way. I'm trying to
live as He did, in all that I do and say. At times I am tempted to
make a wrong choice, but I try to listen as the still small voice
whispers:  Love one another as Jesus loves you, try to show kindness
in all that you do. Be gentle and loving  in deed and in thought-  For
these are the things Jesus taught.

I love it.  :)  I know that Christ lives, and that He is the Savior of
the world. He loves us, so much, and so does Heavenly Father. Their
goal is our happiness and success. As we follow them, and strive to
become more like them, we will be happier. I am so imperfect, and have
so many areas where I can improve. Sometimes I feel insufficient for
my calling as a missionary. But I am doing what I can, and trusting
that the Lord will do for me that which I cannot do for myself. I love
this Gospel. I know it is true, and I will share it till I die.  :)

Watch General Conference. And watch it with a question, I know it will
be answered and that God wants to give us inspiration in our personal
lives.

Love you all.  :)

Hermana Danielle Anderton