I Love Conference!

Conference as a missionary is the best! I´m pretty sure I said it six months ago too, but that´s because it´s true! A whole weekend, receiving revelation for yourself, your companionship, your investigators, all I have to say is...."THAT. WAS. TOTALLY. WICKED!!!!!!" (name that movie!)

I´m pretty sure Elder Holland´s talk Saturday morning inactivated a few people...in all honesty....I saw people get up and leave! "Really?!" (https://www.lds.org/general-conference/watch/2014/04?lang=eng&vid=3434605271001&cid=5)

Anyway, about using Preach My Gospel...Chapter 6 talks about Christ-like attributes and Chapter 8 is about using your time wisely. I would start with those two and maybe when someone needs a FHE lesson idea, there´s always Chapter 3 and Chapter 5 :)

I personally need to do better at reading from PMG daily, but this morning I made a plan (I´m going one week at a time) to study and implement a specific section or chapter. I´m starting with "Faith" from Chapter 6. It seems like a simple principle, but once one really understands exactly what "having faith" entails, well, we could learn much from Peter´s example of walking on the water, as well as James 1:6, James 2:17, and Alma 32. Faith can truly move mountains if our faith leads us to pick up a shovel and start working.

Mom, sorry to crush your dreams, but when I get home I plan on savoring every minute of alone time, cuz let´s be honest, it´s already got an expiration date hahaha (not that it´s a bad thing!) (haha, I had a funny dream that Daylon had just come home from his mission and he brought all his blankets into my room and asked if he could sleep on the floor!)

Pretzel Season....oh the wonderfully stressful and agonizing hours of waiting for dough to rise! How I miss thee not :P hahahaha Since E´ Lythgoe taught me how to make "Banana bread" (basically banana cake with chocolate mixed in and Nutella on top, when I can afford it) the members and other missionaries are about as anxious to get it as the Frosts are for their Pretzels (Mom will understand that the best).

Simi Squad :D The....registros de la Iglesia....Church registers? Church..RECORDS! The printed list of a ward´s membership records is called "Simi" and since we´re a small group working with the Simi, we are thus affectionately known in the mission as "The Simi Squad" :D (p.s. it´s fun hearing Latins try to pronounce "squad" haha).

In my personal work with the Simi, I am the group leader of 4 other people and we look up their names and the address they last voted at in the Government Records to see if we can find them and get them back to activity (Does that make sense in English?). I haven´t had much of an opportunity to apply it in my own sector, but we did get a bit done last week and hope to find some new investigators with it this week seeing as NO ONE has been to church in TWO WEEKS!!! :/

Anyway, love you all :)

- Elder Daylon Crider

p.s. New photos of our District and what we did today to celebrate my comp´s bday (¡justo hoy!)