We had a wonderful zone conference on Monday and Tuesday!
We
all watched 17 Miracles together on Monday night at the B's and
then we had the actual conference Tuesday morning. We talked a lot
about our desires and how if we really love the Lord, we will do
everything in our power to be completely obedient. There is an awesome
conference talk about how a lot of times the sacrifices the Lord asks of
us are small, not big. He doesn´t usually ask that we sacrifice our
lives, but rather that we read our scriptures daily, and pray sincerely,
and other small things like that.
We watched an amazing video
clip about a 16 year-old boy named Hector who was a convert to the
church and who shares the gospel with EVERYONE. The ward had a
missionary activity and when they went to Hector´s apartment complex,
every single person had already been invited to come to church, a church
activity, or to meet with the missionaries, and all of them BY HECTOR.
In the video clip, he says a couple really profound things. First, he
was talking about his conversion, and he said that he read the Book of
Mormon, prayed, and got an answer. And then he said "If I know it, I
have to do it." That was so amazing to me! A testimony isn´t really
worth anything if we don´t do anything about it. And if we have that
solid testimony, there won´t be any other real option but to do that
which we know we ought to do. The other thing he said was talking about
why it´s so easy for him to share the gospel with everyone, even with
people he doesn´t know. He said, "If our Lord said it, you should do
it!" That hit me so hard. If we really know that Jesus is the Christ,
the Savior of the world, well, we should do what He says. Whatever it
is, however difficult of uncomfortable it may be.
I just finished this morning
reading Jesus the Christ. I absolutely loved every minute and it was
wonderful for me to be able to see the perfect example that He was. I
love Him.
We´re currently
struggling a little bit getting our investigators to keep commitments.
We were talking about it and we´re confused because we can feel the
Spirit strongly in our lessons with them and we´re pretty sure they can
feel it too, but then they don´t do anything that we invite them to do!
So either they aren´t feeling the Spirit, they don´t recognize that
they´re feeling it, or they don´t realize that the committments we leave
with them will help them feel the Spirit. Our goal this week will be
to figure out which of those is the problem...
Also, D got baptized on
Saturday!! And Dad, you don´t have to worry about me not getting to sing
with you guys because every Wednesday at FHE D plays Christmas
songs on the piano and has me come over and sing them with him. I´m
probably going to sing O Holy Night at the ward talent show on December
20th and he´s going to accompany me. But his baptism was such an amazing
experience and the testimony he shared at the end was incredible. Too
bad NONE of our investigators came...
Transfers are today but we
aren´t changing here. In our district only Elder D left for Madrid,
so we´re pretty much the same still. Hermana F and I decorated our
piso super pretty today with snowlakes and a paper chain for Christmas!
It´s so pretty! I took pictures...but I forgot my camera cord at home
so I will send them to you next week.
Today our P-day is cut in half
because we´re going to do the rest of it on Thursday! We´re going up
to the B's on Thursday afternoon with all the missionaries and the
stake president and his family, and we´ll be there until about 6:00 at
night! We are really excited!
Also, Hermana F wants me
to tell you all that it´s her birthday on Friday. Just so you know. :)
I don´t know what I can do as a surprise seeing as how we have to be
within sight and sound of each other 24/7...but I´ll see what I can cook
up!
I love you all a ton and hope you have a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!
Hermana Lara Schaumann
^It's snowing in the Canary Islands!
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