Well hey there everybody,
Wow general
conference was awesome probably the best part of the week, not that the week
was bad but just not as good as conference haha. One thing that was cool this
week is that since our district of us and the Conway elders hit our district
baptismal goal for September, we got to go have dinner at the mission home with
president and sister Holm and the assistants, that was really cool and then
president gave us a little training about how to have happiness and how in
order to have happiness you can’t just focus on happiness, it starts first with
a vision and then so forth there are things you need to do in between vision
and happiness that help you achieve happiness, and of coarse the gospel is a part
of it. The rest of the week, other then that was okay haha nothing really
awesome happened. We had lots of people who said they were gonna come to the
church and watch conference but they didn’t come so that was a big bummer but i
guess you can only invite people and can’t force them to come even though some
times you really want to cause you know its gonna help them so much, that’s
probably the hardest thing about Marion is finding people who will actually do
what they say they will. We find so many cool people who are interested but
they don’t really have too much real intent beyond the interest. I think its mostly because most of them have
been living here for so long they have tunnel vision and they can’t see that
there is so much more out there for them, cause honestly if I grew up here in Marion
my whole life I would feel the same way, that this is all there is, and there is
so much bad stuff here which makes it worse. It depresses me sometimes, but on the more
positive side of things, transfers! So when we were at the mission home
president talked to Elder Lee and I in his office and told us we would be
together another transfer so that was exciting news and elder Denny will
be training a new missionary next transfer so elder Brinkerhoff is leaving.
My favorite talk of all of conference was probably elder Bednars
talk on how we can have a strong testimony and still not be converted, but
those who have only a testimony can fall away from the church, but
those who have a testimony and are converted will not fall away. Believe it or not I heard the talk that elder
Holland gave, it was very similar to one he gave in the mtc, we have that
one on video that president Holm gave all the companionship's to be able to
watch, so that was cool.
Well dad looks like you did a little better than last year,
and I still hold the record from 2 years ago with 3:40 for the marathon, cause scott wynn only got 3:45.
No, I’m good on a
suit for now I’m using my black one that i used last year. It’s not too torn up,
but it will be by the time I come home, so we will have to go suit shopping
when I get back. Yes, sign me up for St. George.
Well I don’t know what else to write haha, oh yeah we haven’t
really done much on p-days lately then just be lazy in the apartment, but I
want to go play basketball at the church today so we will do that, there really
isn’t anything to do here haha, and I haven’t gotten to many letters lately but
I did get a couple from Gaby a couple weeks ago.
So that’s all I have for you guys this week.
Love Elder Harper:)
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