April 18, 2011

Yo Yo Yo What up?

 

 

So I`ll start off telling you guys about the highlight of the week which was Zone Conference with Elder Hinckley!! Him and his wife made the trip out on Monday I think and stayed until Friday. Wednesday we had our conference with him and it did not dissapoint. He was throwing out alot of compliments to our mission. I`m not sure if he does that on every mission tour, but it was fun to hear. He said we are the most organized he`s seen as far as goals. He loves our focus on families and priesthood aged men. He`s going to share our ideas in his meeting with the apostles. We also have the best Mission President in Central America if not the world haha

 

I loved listening to the conference because it was all in English so I didn`t have to concentrate much to listen. They hooked up all the latinos with headsets and a translator. Elder Hinckley gave us alot of advice and I walked away learning a ton. He said I hope if you get one thing out of this mission it`s learning how to work. My father loved to work and never took a vacation. Find joy and pleasure in working hard and accomplishing something everyday.

My comp got called on to do a role play, but I lucked out and just watched. Food was awesome there and I got together with buddies.

 

Friday we had the almost amazingly awesome experience. We came home from doing divisions Thursday and I was praying to see what we could do. Just then, the phone rang and it was the APs. They said Elder Hinckley was flying back to the states but wanted to go out with the missionaries for a bit first. They chose our area to come and meet with the Solano family. Here comes the sad part. We did everything we could to put an appointment with them, but they said sorry we can`t do it. Elder Vallejo and I were a little disapointed to say the least. Us and the Solanos both missed out on a sweeet oppurtunity. Oh well.

 

Their baptism didn`t end up happening on Saturday. She drank coffee in the morning, after a few days with out it. The good part is she said it made her sick and she`s never going to drink again. We`re going to do what we can to baptize them this week but they might be going out of town. This week is a huge holiday for the catholic religion or all of Costa Rica ha. Semana Santa it`s called.

We do have a set date for this Saturday with Jose Pavon though. A man we`ve been working with for a couple weeks.

 

Last week I believe, we were knocking doors and I contacted a woman named Cindy Lopez. She told us to come back Friday so we did. We had an awesome first lesson with her and she made it out to church and loved it. I was a little busy in church giving a talk and teaching gospel principles. The lesson went really well. Our 6 investigators and recent converts were talking about overcoming their challenges. At the end Cindy said I have question. What does coffee and tea have to do with anything? haha

We`ll explain that later I said. Gabriel, one of our recent converts also blessed the sacrament for the first time.

 

Well thanks for everything guys. Love you all.

 

 

Pura Vida

 

Elder Miller