It wasn't a super eventful week but still a good one! We had a lot of meetings and presentations that we gave to our Zone about social media work and also we Led a huge Zone Study thing.
So we found an awesome new family who speaks Spanish! It's Jasmine, Oscar and Isaac. They're super awesome and wanna learn more so I'm excited to head back there this week!
Our neighbor Brett likes to show us his video games and then we leave him with a message so we did that again this week and he said wants to start coming to our weekly volleyball and bonfire we do so that'll be fun.
So we went visiting inactive members and one member we visited has an older daughter who is super super interested in our message and she said she's been looking for a church to join so I'm so excited to go back and visit her as well.
On Thursday I went on exchange the other Greenie Elder Lerdall. It went really well! We taught like three really good lessons to some new people we met! We also had a really powerful lesson with a guy named Dominic who wants to be baptized but he's struggling to quit chewing tobacco. Also he doesn't speak Spanish so whenever we met someone he spoke Spanish I had to speak and it was good for me to see where I am and what to work on haha.
P-Day was sick we had a huge cornhole tourney and I choked in the finals. So other than that we all hung out at the other Elders apartment and watched General Conference. A super awesome member made us some delicious waffles for conference too. Conference was so amazing! And Brad Wilcox is the freaking man. All the other missionaries freaked out like watching a Marvel movie cameo. His talk had amazing messages about Grace and the love of Jesus Christ. "Worthiness is not flawlessness" was my favorite quote. And it's so true! Being worthy isn't being 100 percent perfect or clean because that's imposible, it's all about the intentions of your heart. And improving and repenting every day.
Some of the apostles just absolutely threw down this conference and I loved it haha. I loved D Todds talk and his quote "ours isn't a religion of perfection, but a religion of redemption through Jesus Christ." I loved his message about no matter what we do, Christ will always love us. Our sins don't change his love. But, that doesn't mean that were just exempt from sin. There's a difference between God always loving us and condoning sin. Such an awesome message!
I could go on and on about all the amazing talks but I want to finish with one of my favorite themes which was brought a few times. It was Following the Prophet. There were a lot of promises about how if we follow the prophet we will not go astray. But, that means completely following him. We can't just pick and choose when and where and what we want to follow. Super awesome message and a powerful promise!
Love you all! See ya next week!
Love, Elder Ryan
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