Aaron

Hey everyone!  I hope you are all doing great!  It´s super exciting to hear about Kaleb and his mission call!  It will be an awesome experience!  The mission is awesome!

So this past week, not a whole lot happened during the week.  We looked for people and they weren´t there.  I was able to go on divisions with an Elder in my district and I learned a few things there.  It was good to see that they are still working hard!

So this past week we had a mission conference with Elder Holland!  It was pretty cool!  We were able to shake his hand before it had all started.  He also mentioned that way back when, every missionary (in the world) had to be interviewd by someone from the Quorom of the Twelve each year.  But with 75,000 missionaries and soon to be 85,000 missionaries, it´s a little hard.  So he said that by shaking someones hand and looking them in the eyes, he could interview someone.  So I was pretty much interviewd by an Apostle of the Lord.

I learned so much from the conference and would like to share with all of you a few things.  First off, he was talking about how his wife had been struggling with health and that about a year and a half ago, they about lost her.  But as we know, she is still with us (althogh she wasn´t able to make the trip to Cusco due to health and precautions).  He explained that God is always required to do what is best for us.  Although we might not like it, it is always what is best.

He also talked about how missionary work is the most important work in the universe.  It is the most important work throughout all of God´s creations.  Then he talked about Moses 1:39.  He asked what are the big words in this verse and we said ´´work, glory, immortality, eternal life´´ as most of us would say.  And he said that these are the big words of this verse, but what is the most important word of all this verse, and someone said,  ´´My´´.  The reason why this is the most important work in all the universe it because it´s His work.  And if it´s His work we do it His way.  If it were our work we could do it our way with our rules and all that, but this is His work and we have to do it His way.

Another thing that caught my attention is when he talked about an experience when someone was interviewing him.  They asked Elder Holland, ´´What is the church´s symbol?´´  As we all know, the church doesn´t really have a so-called symbol.  But he said, ´´Two young men in a shirt and tie preaching the gospel.´´  Ever since then he has wondered if he was right or not, but he is convinced that this is the symbol of the church.  So as missionaries we are litterally representing the church.  We are symbols of the church.  Then Elder Holland said in his voice, litterally yelling, ´´You do not have the right to destroy the image of a missionary!  Nobody has that right!´´

Well there were a lot of things that I learned that I don´t have time to write it all in here, but it was a great experience.  I am so greatful to be able to have heard the voice of an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ.  I love you all and I hope you all are doing well!  Thanks for the support and love you all show!  Have a great week!