We watched the Saturday morning session through the Sunday morning session in Spanish. My notes for the first few talks were going great, I was keeping up and was able to write and listen at the same time. Nearly an hour into the second session I was really starting to strain and was losing words in every few sentences. My notes for the following sessions suffered. I really liked the dynamic of having a translator for the prayers which are done in real time, and there were a few instances in the Saturday sessions when the translating was just gone for nearly 20 seconds and you could hear equipment getting jostled around in some room in Salt Lake. My Favorite part of the translation was during the closing testimony of one speaker on Saturday Afternoon, the translator felt the power of the words he spoke and became very emotional while the speaker continued unwavering. The hardest talk was definitely Elder Christofferson. His vocabulary was far far beyond my 4th grade spanish.I got a giant egg for Easter! It was so big! Plus it was full of goodies my whole apartment is enjoying.
I also got to serve with Elder Hart who's about to finish his training while elder masters served with Elder Hall and Elder Drennen.
Elder Hart is great to serve with, he has a gentle heart. he's very sincere, and just good natured.
At MLC on Friday we learned more about how the true teacher is the spirit. I set the goal while watching conference to make the decision every day to look for more light, to gain just that much more understanding by the spirit. it won't come to us unless we act as agents and search for it ourselves. We also learned a little more about how by living in such a way that the spirit is strong in your presence the spirit will correct others who are searching to better themselves. If they're not looking to improve.. well then there's the military's way to make you better, haha.
One quote i loved from conference which i don't know how well i can transalte said we can't cast out darkness by chastising it, we instead have to bring in more light. I hope to make that a bigger part of how we train new missionaries, and those that are still fighting to make the decision if they want to serve with ALL their heart, might, mind and strength.
The Herrera family is doing great, they came to general conference and sister funtez, a very experienced and loving sister in the ward, first offered to take their 1 year old so they could focus on the speakers (their kids were still going a little crazy) and that turned into a nightmare. He cried as she left the sacrament room and she was blatantly uncomfortable awaiting his return. When she came back he was delirious and the mom made a rescue effort to soothe him. So that back fired. She later took out the 2 older boys and took them for a walk to pick flowers from the church grounds and play in the nursery which was much more successful. The older boys really took to her, and wanted to keep playing after the session was over. It seemed like the parents had a powerful experience listening to president uchtdorf and elder Holland. They said they'll prepare us a meal when we see them on Tuesday. We invited them to be baptized in the last lesson on the 25th of april, and they said that seemed a little soon so we said great, and we'll keep working with them.
I love you.
Stay Salty and Keep your Covenants.
Elder Tyler Meidell
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