"This week was awesome!!! As i told you
last week we were in luanda for a zone conference with all of the elders of
Angola. So we had the privilege of riding in that wonderful chicken express(the
bus) for 18 hours to go and watch it:) Don't worry this time there weren't any
chickens on the bus:)
On Tuesday we got permission from
president to do some divisions with the elders from huambo. I walked with elder
tilley in terra nova, an area that we both had served in to go and see a few
people for probably the last time. It was a really sweet experience to walk back
in that area and see what had become of the area. It has grown and now has many
very strong members. We only were able to see three people, Guilheirme,
Danilson, and Lorenco. Guilheirme will be going on a mission in January to
mozambique so this was the last time for tilley and i to see him. He hope to
pass by more people when we are getting ready to leave.
The zone conference was on Wednesday for
most of the day. It was such a good conference!!! Elder Hamlton, a member of the
second quorum of the 70, came and spoke at the zone conference. It was such a
neat experience as he spoke to us and taught us. At the very beginning he did
something that i had never really seen done in a conference. To start it off he
just asked us what the biggest challenges we had as we worked. We named off a
list of 10 or so items from helping people make commitments to getting people
married, to how to work with the members more closely. Throughout the whole
conference he discussed about every one of the worries that we had and helped us
to understand how to teach more efficiently.
Elder Hamlton used a really good example for Helping people keep
commitments. he said that when we find people and we start teaching them we are
trying to help them make huge changes in there lives that seem almost impossible.
Kind of like jumping over a 10 foot brick wall without any help. So something
people will run head on at the wall and jump as high as they can and just end up
slamming straight into the wall. So as we are teaching we need to make "stairs"
for them to easy their way up to the top by giving smaller and easier commitments
such as reading a chapter in the bofm or something like that. The he went on and
explained that we we teach and invite people to do something we need to ask them
in a very straight, yes or no answer. such as "will you...?" and if they start
to make excuses to be a little persistent by testifying and promising blessing
and then asking them again. kind of a don't take no for an answer type thing. ha
ha but i really enjoyed the whole conference!!! I learned so much!"
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