General Conference was incredible!!!! I got to watch all of the sessions other than the Sunday Afternoon session. It may be quite a while before I get the chance to hear or read that one, but I was so happy to be able to watch the other sessions! I felt that one of the themes throughout the entire conference was a focus on how we need to separate ourselves from the world. I am on the streets talking to people every day, and I can testify to the fact that the world is becoming more and more secular and . . . worldly. The standards and laws set up by society just aren't enough to protect us spiritually in the world we live in today. With love we need to be forgiving of people who do not live the Lord's standards, but we can never, never seem to condone their actions or lifestyle. If we are truly Christlike we will not apologize for the standards which our Heavenly Father has set for us, we will encourage and help others to live those standards so that they too can be safe in a spiritually dangerous world! I hope that each of you will take the things you learned personally in General Conference and make the jump to apply them in your lives! The shelf life of a good talk is about two days if you don't write some goals down and decide to make changes!
We were able to see some incredible miracles happen this week! In fact, on Saturday one of the more unlikely miracles actually took place. We had just finished our exchange with the zone leaders and we were walking to where we had locked our bikes in town. A young man in his twenties saw us and walked up. He said "Hi Elders! Um. . . I haven't been able to find the church around here yet, but I need to be baptized!" Just so that you know, that doesn't happen very often! He was taught a few years ago by some missionaries somewhere near London, but from what he told us he just let life get in the way of taking the step of baptism. Then last Wednesday he was on a bus and he realized that he had left the book he was reading at his friends house. He just happened to have a triple combination in his back pack, so he pulled it out and began to read! He described the spiritual experience he had right there on a bus when he realized all of a sudden that he needed to be baptized! Only a few days later he bumped into us! We had to hand his information off to another team of missionaries because he doesn't live in our area, but that was just awesome for us!
Have a wonderful week, talk to you next week!
