Elder Grow

So this week has been really good, we had a lot of meeting and I
learned a lot from this week.

First of this week was out stake conference and it was awesome, our
general authority that we had had over here was Elder C. Scott Grow
and he was super good. On Saturday we had the adult session and not
very many people showed up to that actually but the mission president
asked all the missionaries to go so we went and the meeting was really
good and also really fun at the same time, Elder Grow was talking and
teaching about the ward council and how it is suppose to be and so to
demonstrate he called up all the ward council members from our ward
and made us stay up there for a while with him. It was good because he
made everybody say stuff so that everybody could participate and not
just stand there, and some of the things that people said were kinda
funny but I learned a lot from it especially because I didn't know
what the ward council even was because I have never actually been in
one because in my last area we never went and I haven't been in this
area either.

On Sunday we had the actual stake conference with the whole stake and
that was really good also they had the kids sing some songs and one of
our investigators who we are working with also came and sang with
them, his name is Yair and he is awesome, I don't know if I wrote
about him before but he comes to church every Sunday and really loves
primary and recently we have set a baptismal date with him for the 5th
of June, the last time we met with him we went through the baptismal
questions with him and filled out the baptismal sheet record paper
thing so he is pretty much all set to get baptized and I'm really
excited for it.

On Tuesday we had zone conference with the Poughkeepsie zone and that
was also really good, we talked about a whole bunch of stuff but the
main thing that president focused of was the 1st lesson which is the
restoration and how we can teach it more simply and we practiced
teaching it in 4-6 minutes in front of everybody which was super scary
because I just felt like I was being judged hardcore but it was a good
learning experience for us and how we can improve on our teaching.

One of the scriptures that stood out to me during this week was 2
nephi 33:1 it says "for when a man speaketh by the power of the Holy
Ghost the power of the Holy Ghost carrieth it unto the hearts of the
children of men" and I like how it says UNTO because it's up to us to
take the stuff that the Holy Ghost gives and put it INTO our hearts
and apply it.

Love,
Elder Pugmire