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Hey Family and Friends,
I hope everyone had an outstanding
Conference weekend, I did!!! The President made a little rule that if we
wanted to attend all the sessions of Conference we had to have 60% of our key
indicators done to attend, so Elder Caceres and I worked our butts off to get
that 60% and thank goodness we got it done!!!
So how amazing was Conference right? Even though I watched it in Spanish, and
scrambled to take notes, I would encourage everyone, Brothers' and Sisters' to read
the Priesthood session talks because they were absolutely amazing, especially
the talk by President Uchtdorf! It
really strengthened my testimony about the Priesthood!
The talk that I loved the most was
by President Monson on Sunday morning. He talked about obedience and how if we
are obedient to the Lord’s commandments he will bless us with the knowledge
that we want to receive! I just
absolutely love President Monson, nobody laughs at his jokes here... humor is not a part of the culture I guess, I was
the only one laughing in the Sacrament hall.... and you know my laugh......
hahaha what can I say! If anyone reading
didn’t get the chance to hear or watch Confernece, really I encourage you to do
so. Following Conference we had lunch
with a member both days.
My Comp continues to be all that I
could ask for and we had a really adventurous experience this week. As you can tell by the picture Fuerte is
??? While we were trekking the power in
our area went out and we had an appointment in El Fuerte, there was no
light whatsoever, so it was felt like we were filming a movie traveling through El Fuerte with our
little light. I wasn’t scared at all though,
knew the Lord was right there keeping those batteries working in the little flashlight
you packed mom! I would have to say just the opposite, super exciting
navigating the stairs and everything! So
yes Mom you did catch that the stair comment, didn’t catch it myself tell the
email had gone but we are fine there in El Fuertre even though it is dangerous
and I mean dangerous, I love the adventure as usual! There are actually a TON
of members who live there and we are teaching as many!!!
We also have a new investigator who
is absolutely amazing! She was a reference from her neighbor who is a member.
Her husband passed away 2 months ago and she has trouble walking and she also has a
son with a little learning disability. We taught her an amazing lesson last
week that just applied to her situation and the spirit was so strong in the
room. We also talked about how through
the Gospel of Jesus Christ she can return to see her husband again. She also
told us that when she prays about the things we teach, she feels something
different and she likes it, so we are definitely going to keep reaching out to
her!!!
The weather here is turning cooler
but I’m keeping warm and my shoes are fine at this time. I will try and get these suits to a dry
cleaner now that I am nearer to town, yes they could use it!
Wow sounds like you had a busy week
with Gram’s surprise 80th Bday Party, I am glad the church ladies
all came I am sure she enjoyed it! Send me the photos in the mail I am sorry
they are not coming through the net today!
Aunt Brenda flew in from Texas how awesome was that!!!
So Mom, lunch with Elder Piili’s mom great how
did that come about! I can just see the
two of you laughing and having a great time.
I am sure that she is as much fun as he was in Alabama when we served
together, absolutely the BEST COMP!!!
And hey Pops, how are ya? Like I mentioned, I just loved Conference and
the Priesthood session, Uchtdorf’s talk etc. etc. This new area is good, Iam learning it
because my Comp leaves in 2 weeks and the President told me I would be Training
at that time, so I got a lot to do to get ready for that! Hope everything is going well for ‘ya back
home, I hear the weather is nice! Keep
it real Pops!
So now.... I have to give a HUGE shout out.....CONGRATS TO BRELYNN BROMLEY ON YOUR MISSION CALL TO NEW ZEALAND! I am so proud and excited for her and she is going to be an outstanding, fabulous, amazing Missionary!!!!!!!!
Remember kids... do you?
Love Your,
Elder Wade Draper
