WOOOP WWWOOOOOOOPPP!!!! CONFERENCE WAS SWEET AS.
Favorite
talks were BOTH of Pres Dieter F Uchtdorf's talks and Elder Kevin
Duncan's!!!! Those were my top 3!!!!! Some quotes I wrote that I absolutely LOVED!!!!....
Pres Dieter F Uchtdorf
"Let Love CONQUER Pride"
"We ALL can be Saviors of Strong Families"
"What Legacy do you want to leave with your posterity?"
"Obedience is the Lifeblood of Faith"
"We are Designed to Become"
"The sheep is worthy of rescue simply because it is LOVED"
"There is nothing good unless you do it"
Abe Lincoln
"Most people are about as happy as their minds can be"
Pres Russell M Nelson
"Live up to the powers of Heaven"
Prophet Thomas S Monson
"May we choose the harder right than the easier wrong"
Welp,
those were just a couple of my favorites!!!! LOVED THEM ALL!! I hope
everyone had an opportunity to listen to all of conference!! If not go
back and listen to the talks!! If you did, go back and listen to the
talks!!You can eat ice cream AND watch at the same time!!
This
week with the work, welp, it was a doozy!! In a good way!! I have never
been so exhausted in my life and that is saying something!! We were on a
split literally every day this week except for Wed, we were on our own!
But George came out with us on Thursday and we did a way big split with
another elder, long story short, he needed a home for a couple days
before he left to go to Manu'a, and some other youth, it was sweet as!!
And we got some sweet as pics too!! I just want to talk about one of our
investigators real quick!! Ray, a 42 year old man, smoking and drinking
most of his life, married with 3 kids, but the older 2 are in the
states and Upolu.And his wife is a member as well as the 2 older,
younger one isn't old enough yet. It started on last Saturday,
we went to go visit him and he was trying to hide a drink he had in his
hand but it fell and he just kept apologizing, but we just kept telling
him everything is gonna be all goods! We then met with him again the
next day after sacrament meeting and had one of the coolest lessons
ever! He bore his testimony of wanting to change. (We've been meeting
with Ray for the last 3 months just fyi). He just cried and cried and
said he felt something strong, a strong desire for change and it was
warm! We've been seeing him every day since then and he hasn't smoked or
drank since that Saturday night!! He's getting baptized on the April 16th as of now! He's doing so well and came to BOTH sessions of Sunday
morning conference!! This is what the missions about. This is why I'm
doing what I'm doing. Seeing the change in these peoples lives as they
come closer to their Savior and Redeemer and their lives take a 180
degree turn!!! I love it and bear testament that the powers of Heaven to
change people's lives is REAL!!!!!!
Loves Yous all and hope this week has been sweet as for all of yous!!!
Elder Larson
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| George is with Colby and Elder Tuimauga as they came back to wait for the ZLs...sadly that is not rain, but sweat! |
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| Taking a quick nap while waiting for the second Sunday Conference session at 9am in American Samoa...the first session started at 5am and then stayed in the chapel waiting for the next session...his companion couldn't resist the temptation of the pic. That is George behind him too. |
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| George was pretty excited for his dinner this week...looks like KFC, but they like to call it tropical chicken. Fifteen pieces of chicken, 8 rolls, and some mashed potatoes for the four of them. | . |
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