I loved general conference. I have
a terrible memory and forget everything I hear once I hear it, so I
took scrupulous notes, causing Sister Chan several times to stare at my
swiftly-moving pen in amazement several times....but I can't remember
which was my favorite talk or which parts I liked best, my notes are at
home. Okay okay, I do remember I liked Elder Koelliker's talk about love
and missionary work, and about the two missionaries and the big guy
that answered the door and said "Didn't I tell you never to come back
here again?" and the big guy watched through the window as the
missionaries walked away, fully expecting them just to laugh it off or
something, but the more-experienced missionary put his arm 'round the
less-experienced missionary to comfort him, and that expression of love
and care between them softened his heart, and he felt the love of
Christ, and opened the door and called them back.
We watched sunday general conference at the
Gilmores' and George With the Beard (Brother Gilmore) watched the whole
thing with us and did not even fall asleep and I made everyone egg
burritos and gave them pineapple upside down cake that our ward mission
leader sent us home with. It was lovely.
Sister Chan got most of conference but would have loved to listen to it in Cantonese but the internet wasn't working. Sighh.
Hahhaa... Anne is emailing me back right now. It's like chatting .bahahaha.
We saw Our Glorified Hoarder Investigator...she
still has a few problems. She wants to be a prophet and wants to know
why women don't hold the priesthood. It is hard for her to agree with us
but I think she likes Sister Chan a lot and said she could see our
point of view better now but still said she disagrees.
Charlene our Recent Convert is doing quite well, she
is lovely, has lots of kids in her daycare now, though it's very
tiring. Brother Weed from the bishopric is her home teacher and he goes
with us to her lessons and the way he teaches works very well for her.
Charlene likes her concerns resolved, and attention and care taken to
explain, and to understand...and she even gave us a suggestion!!! Use
more scriptures as we teach. Hahhahah, I feel ashamed.
We saw The Woman In the Store and resolved her
question about the three kingdoms of glory, which she plain disagreed
with. She saw it as condemning, she would NEVER be able to make it to
the celestial kingdom, she would never have en seen as a competition.
Sister Chan very quickly explained God does not compare us. He knows us
and loves us and knows what we are capable of. She mentioned getting to
heaven seemed like crossing things off a checklist. I said that
following the gospel is just following what has always been taught,
through prophets throughout history, ever since Adam. God has already
laid out for us what we must do--we just gotta keep his commandments.
It's funny cuz I thought she'd take the 3 degrees of glory the other
way, that it is ridiculous we believe people who still don't repent
still get a degree of glory and she just saw herself as never being good
enough to get to heaven. We love her. She was so peaceful and accepting
by the end of our visit.
We had zone conference and Sister Chan and I taught
"Finding Joy in our companionship." We wrote a song for it, called "Find
the Joy." It's pretty amazing. Sister Beesley recorded it for us that
night. Hopefully it'll be on the next CD. Hahaha. The rest of zone
conference was very good, we got pizza. Okay, I swear I can remember
things OTHER than the food. Our new theme is the good shepherd and so I
am gonna try and write a song about following Jesus Christ...our zone
leaders and assistants to the pres taught fun little segments n stuff. I
love being a missionary, one of the pluses is how we can uplift each
other and learn from other missionaries, and see elders stepping up and
teaching and being rockstars.
It's about 40 degrees these days. It is break-up
time. Some roads are so slushy that if I didn't control the steering
wheel, it would bounce back n forth like a ping pong ball as the Jeep
struggled to stay straight. Yay for 4-wheel drive. Haha. AND THE
PUDDLES. Oh man Sister Chan and I were about to turn right from the
frontage road onto the highway. We saw a small SUV coming the opposite
direction on the frontage road, not even that fast, through a puddle and
the splashes of water on either side of him were taller than the car.
"Sister Chan, we are going through that RIGHT NOW." She took a video
from inside even though I really wanted her to do it from the outside
but she protested, saying she'd get wet. PSSSH.
Over the mountains, at 6:30 in the morning, are
streaks of warm golden glow. I can see the way down the ladder without
having to turn the lights on. When it is about 6pm, it looks about 3 pm.
Oh maaaan, guys.
Okay, I would looooove to see rinda. Or christy.
Which one? I think since it's a distant cousin and not even related by
blood it would be okay, but I can still obviously ask the Beesleys. Keep
me posted.
I am scared I might get transfered at the end of
this one, pray I will not, I love sister chan....okay I will do whatever
the Lord wants.
LOVE You! Love studying the last week of the Savior's life. You get a sense of his culture at that time, of jerusalem. Soo cool.
Mom signed her email so cool this week but I have no
time to go and copy and paste it here, so just prepare, world, NEVER to
be satisfied cuz you WILL ALWAYS be wondering what it is.
Shout out to Maia. I love you, write me a letter.
Xoxox,
sister melissa jean
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