Hola hola!!
Hey there, mi familia querida! Sounds
like life is pretty good in the Lattin home! Whenever I walk into a home with a
lot of kids, noise and craziness, it makes me feel so happy because I feel
right at home:) I have a hard time when things get too quiet, I'm not used to
it!
Anyways, can we just talk about the fact that
General Conference was AMAZING??? Seriously, I was mentally, emotionally,
physically, and spiritually exhausted because it blew my mind. I always love
the themes that come out of it, because it helps me know what specifically we,
as Christ's Church, and individually as God's children, need to understand work
on, and improve. And wasn't it SO cool to have the
speakers deliver their talks in their native language?? We watched the 2nd
session of Saturday in Spanish with Edna and it was awesome to hear
Eduardo Gavarret deliver the talk in Espanol! And Sister Carvalho was
really excited about the one in Portuguese:) I took some great notes that
I forgot at home, so I don't have all of my favorite things from
conference accessible currently... but I remember a few things:) I
absolutely loved our Prophet's words on walking AS Christ did, and
following His perfect example as His Disciples., President Uchtdorf's
on Saturday Morning, he was so powerful in his assertion that we need to know
for ourselves, and that when we seek for, receive and embrace divine revelation
from God through the Holy Ghost, our vision of truth and eternal reality is
clarified and broadened. And then President Eyring was so sweet as well
expressing his love for our prophet. And Elder Nelson, Elder Scott, Holland,
and Bednar... all of them were SO GOOD. I wish I had the words and time (and my
notes) to I could express how much I loved it. But it sufficeth me to say that
it left me with an even greater conviction that my Heavenly Father loves me,
and that He loves each of us more than we can comprehend and
because He does, His Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, marked the
path back to our heavenly home and through his mercy and love, he made it
possible for us to do so, and that it is our responsibility exercise our
agency to CHOOSE to do the things necessary in order to return back to our
Heavenly Father, that we must seek truth through personal revelation, accept
the Lord's will, and act in obedience to His laws and commandments, as
established by His chosen servants, all along the ways serving and loving our
families and friends, that we may return all together to live in the presence
of our Father and our Savior as eternal families. And that's what it's all
about. Conference left me feeling a strong conviction and confirming witness of
all of those truths. I LOVE GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!:)
General Conference brought some great
progression with our investigators, Edna especially! She is awesome. She LOVES
the Book of Mormon and I think Conference helped her to understand the
significance of having a living prophet and 12 apostles, and she really felt
the Spirit. She feels good about the 17th of October (which happens to be my
companion's b-day:)) and is preparing for that day. She is truly our milagro.
And another cool thing happened thanks to
conference too! Hna Carvalho told me Saturday night that she felt really
strongly that we needed to invite Sony and Phanuel (the guys from the Congo) to General Conference. So we followed the prompting and
called them and they said they would come, and bring a friend! So they watched
the first session on Sunday. Now remember, they had a lot of doubts and
questions and caused quite a bit of contention over two topics: the Prophet and
the Godhead. And what were the two main themes of that session? PROPHETS AND
THE GODHEAD. How amazing is that? Pretty amazing. I don't know if it changed their
beliefs, because especially Phanuel didn't seem completely convinced, but they
definitely felt the Spirit, and even if they didn't recognize it, I know the
Spirit testified to them the truth of our message. We are going to see them
this week, so we'll let you know how it goes! Tim, unfortunately didn't come:(
He bailed last minute, but hopefully he'll come to FHE tonight so we can talk
to him then and tell him what he missed out on.
I cannot believe it's the last week of the
transfer... and I cannot believe my companion goes home in just 3 weeks (she's
staying 2 extra weeks while her parents come to visit). I am so sad that she is
leaving me, but we wont focus on that right now!
Okay, well have an awesome week! Remember to
review notes you took on each talk and try to make some goals as a family and
personally to work on so the words and promises of our church leaders can come
to pass!:)
I LOVE YOU ALL SO SO SO SO MUCH. Don't ever forget
it.
Moroni 8:3
Hermana Lattin
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