Well how is everyone? How
was Conference weekend? Conference weekend is always like a spiritual
recharge. This week was a lot of fun.
Well this
morning we woke up at about 7:00 to go to the church to make about 65
pieces of french toast. I was Chef Torgersen today. We decided we were
going to do a Zone activity. We played soccer and made french toast. It
was really good. We each had about 6 slices. We ate them with syrup and
manjar (basically caramel) They were amazing and all the Latins loved
them.
This last week we had a missionary leave from our
ward to go to Mexico City for his mission. He ended up getting his visa
earlier than expected. He needed Dollars quickly and I had a $180 I
ended up trading dollars for pesos. Hope that´s alright. His mom was
freaking out. He still had at least a week or so until he had to go. He
was really worried... He was asking us all kinds of questions. His
farewell thing was really spiritual.
This last week we passed by the family Cantero. They
had been really struggling. We could tell they had been through a lot
this past couple weeks. While we were there the mom got a call from the
husband and she asked who was going to buy bread... Luckily for us there
was a negotio right below their house. We ended the lesson, ran down
stairs, bought a kilo of bread. And booked it up the stairs. As we are
running up the stairs we walk into the son that is walking in to his
house. We talked to him and hid the bread. He walked in and we waited a
couple minutes. I run up the stairs, basically hit the door with the
bread and tied it to the door knob. We then booked it back down the
stairs. We are really excited to see what they say.
We were really excited about conference this
weekend. It was a great chance for us to get people to church and listen
to the prophets voice. We ended up having a lot of success getting
people to church as a zone. We had a lot of people that got to hear the
prophet and hear his testimony. We had a INV get to church and find a
friend she had from when she was like 15 that she hadn't seen in about
30 years. It was really cool because as we were walking in she asked
about this guy and we told her we didn´t know him. She said he was a
Mormon and served a mission and she lost contact with him. After the
conference guess who she runs into. We are hoping to get him into
helping us by getting her baptized. It was a small miracle that we saw
this week.
Well Conference was awesome. We ended up watching
all the sessions in the high counsel room with the big wooden desk and
cushy chairs. We all took lots of notes and President came to Priesthood
session and He and his wife came to the session on Sunday with us. Hrna
Humphrey ended up making us all chocolate chip cookies. I feel like the
Zones around Conce are Babied. It´s kind of sad. It is amazing and
really funny that 8 gringos in a room alone can stay absolutely silent
for two hours while taking notes. It was a really spiritual experience.
We just had a kid finish his mission today. His name
is Richard Stowe. He is from Cedar hills, highland area. He was really
worried. He looked like he was in shock the whole time. He couldn´t
believe he was going home. It was really weird to see all of that go
down. My comp will finish this Cambio and then two Later I will. It is
really crazy to think how fast it is going by.
I just want to thank you guys for all the time and
money spent daily to help me. I really can feel your prayers. Thank you
for supporting me while I´m out here. I know that we are all receiving
the blessings, even if we might not be able to see them right now.
Well I had numbers today so I don´t have much time. Love you all and miss you tons. Thanks for everything.
Elder Torgersen
P.S.
I did get the packages. In fact we had to go into the office on
Saturday and I got the package with all the candy in it. I was able to
eat a little Easter candy during conference. :)
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