This week has been one of a lot of personal growth and working hard, so it's an exciting one.]
Zone Conference: Last Tuesday we had another Zone Conference. Because of some changes to missions everywhere, we will now be having Zone Conference every transfer, which means once every 6 weeks. It was all spiritual prep this time and there were main things that we went over in this Conference. Personal Conversion, Working with Youth and Young Adults, and Teaching Repentance. One of the best parts about all of this was the discussion we had. It was also really cool because our 2nd Counselor in the Mission Presidency shared a lot of experiences and told it how it is. He is a very bold leader and missionary. One of the coolest things that we did talk about was Personal Conversion. We need to cleanse the inner vessel before we can help others to repent. The scripture that was shared was Alma 60:23 and we learned about how repentance is never bad. It may seem scary or hard to do, but repentance is how we can become a little bit better each and every day by repenting daily, and then weekly touching the atonement through the sacrament.
Prayer: I've done quite a bit of study on prayer and one of the things that stood out was the fact that we have to ask for some blessings before we can receive them. That is why we should ask for simple things, even if we think we can do it ourselves. We have to be very humble when we pray because we can't do almost anything write as people. We mess up and sin almost every single day and have to ask for the Lord's help. Pray for the spirit every day. That feeling is the most wonderful thing in the world and one of the best talks that helped me learn more about this was given in a general conference a couple of years ago by President Henry B. Eyring: Priesthood and Personal Prayer in the April 2015 Conference. I'm very excited to learn more than I ever had about how to repent and have the spirit be with me always, something that I thought was something I could only feel when doing certain things.
Sunday: Yesterday was a very busy day. We woke up at 6:45 for a weekly correlation meeting with all of the ward mission leaders and talked about and trained about the new tools we have with helping youth and young adults share the gospel over social media. Then after some study and breakfast we went to a ward's sacrament meeting. Then lunch, then 3 hours of church with another ward, then I had to teach a gospel principles class in a third ward, then I had to give 2 baptismal interviews, then we had to go to dinner, then we had 2 appointments. So it was a very good day, but now I am a little bit more relaxed and feeling better. Glad that we had sacrament meeting and I understood my mom a little bit more while she teaches seminary, because the gospel principles class didn't want to answer any of my questions, on anything. so there was a lot of awkward silence and it was a little bit sad, because i love to ask questions in my teaching.
Story: One of the cool/weird/funny stories that I happened last week was the activity that we had. After volleyball we went to our appointments that night. Our appointment that night was with other people, but we were told about someone we needed to visit from a Care center in town. It was there that we heard about one of our investigators, Elsa. We then spent about 2 hours listening to her life and man is it sad. The only thing that we could do was share the hope of the light of the Gospel. the two scriptures that came to mind were Isaiah 1:18 and 2nd Nephi 32:8-9. hope that you can find the same light.
Love you all and sorry for the shorter email, it was really rushed today, but I am glad to respond more personally to all of you!
Thank you and love y'all,
Elder Carson Maurice Baker.
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Forgot something, so it's coming next week.
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