Conferencia General

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This week was a pretty awesome spiritually filled week! This week went by pretty fast. This week we had the opportunity to listen to our beloved profeta Russell M. Nelson and his apóstoles. What a powerful conference it was as we heard many great words of wisdom. Now with these talks we can take them and study them and aplicar them to our lives. This week was pretty busy too. This week Elder Baldridge and I did divisiones which was a good time. It is so funny to see the reaction on people´s faces here with dos gringos rolling around the streets. This week Elder May and I found a Hna that is listening to us and she is progressing really well! We invited her to the conference and she went!!!! We had a couple of investigators this week that went the conferencia and they said that they liked it a lot! One of them left with a smile on his face and told us that he had a ton of preguntas answered! This investigator is named Alejandro Vasquez and has like 10 asistencias a la capilla but we can never find him during the week because he has lots of problems in the house and his wife is really sick but this week we got a text from the Hno to see if we could give his a wife a blessing who is not a member tampoco. All week I was so excited to give her the blessing because I felt like this was the next step in the Hno´s progression to enter the waters of baptism. We got to the house and gave the Hna a blessing. I gave the blessing and felt the Spirit so strong telling me what to say. At the end I asked my compañero what I said because I didn´t remember. Before we left the house the Hna started to say that she was already feeling better and hadn´t coughed once desde dimos la bendición. The Hna is already starting to feel better and the Hno is super happy with us and the Gospel. That to me was a testimony that el Sacerdocio is truly the poder de Dios and we should strive dia a dia to have the power with us to be digno! What a great experience that was for me this week!

La Conferencia was so awesome and I am so glad this time that I could understand it all haha. I remember 6 months ago I did not understand anything in the Conference because of the Spanish. It is crazy to see the don de lenguas work in my life and to see the progress that I have made through the help of the Lord. There was so many talks that I loved but the one that stood the most out to me was Elder Oaks about the small things become big things. I have reflected over that talk and how true it is that the little things start out but then become bigger and bigger. It can work for both things when we feel like we can´t do something we need to start with the basics and work everyday at it and then before we know it, it will become our strength. That is where Eter 12:7 comes into play that the Lord will make our weaknesses our strength through our diligencia! It can be the same with tentación también. When we give into tentación even though it can be something small it can eventually turn into a bigger problema. That is why before we do things always think of the future and what can happen later on. I love this talk because it is so true and I see it here with my testimony and the testimonies of my investigadores. At first they start with praying to our Padre Celestial to know the truth and when they have the truth their faith continues to grow slowly and slowly sometimes fast! I am so grateful to see the testimonies grow and the love I have for these people grow. I have found myself worrying more and more for their progress and never giving up on them because the Lord is always preparing people for us to teach. I loved the messages we got from Conferencia and already can´t wait for the other Conferencia in Octubre!

Something that I saw and took out of the Conferencia more than anything was the amount of times they talked about loving your vecino as we love ourselves. Also with the changes that they are making in the Lord´s church is a testimony to me of the importance of the unity as Hijos de Dios. We are literally the ejercito de Dios and need to help strengthen it by our own testimony and bringing others to join the army. It is so important the unity and love we have for one another here on the Earth. We are all here to help each other lograr the vida eterna. How are we going to do it? Look out for those around you and bring them in especially when they are down. Asure to them that we are the army of God and we are going to win. This week we were talking with an investigador and we told her that everytime you feel lost or down remember that fact that we have a cuerpo on the Earth today and we have already beaten Satanas and he is jealous that is why he tempts us. When you are down look to those around you and look to your Heavenly Father that loves you so much along with his hijo Jesucristo. Sigue adelante con firmeza en Cristo!!!!!!! Help build the Army!

This week was a great week for me and I recieved a lot of answers to my questions. I hope you guys did too and you can apply the things we learned to your lives. The blessings will come and we will continue to build this Army! Today for Pday May and I went to Centro and rode the Turi bus around Centro to know it better. It is crazy to think that this week I am going to have a new comp and May is going home. It is hard to say bye to him as he goes home Wednesday. I learned a lot from him and it was a good 3 1/2 months together. But he has finished his misión and is headed back to Cancun. We will see who my new comp will be! I hope you guys have a great week!

Elder McCain

The fotos are of Centro today and con Fam Lara y otros misioneros en la Conferencia