December 1, 2010

~ Zone conference was awesome, we Elder Caussé let me conduct in spanish so it went good. We learned a lot, and he talked a lot about the importance of revelacion. It´s amazing the the seventy are called and then they just leave everything and serve the lord for 25 years. He speaks english really well, I told him you served in the south of France where he´s from. I got the package, and the shirts are perfect. I´m staying for this transfer too, so i´ll be here for christmas. We went to the old mission home for thanksgiving and it was so good, we ate with the family that moved from fuerteventura to this island the same time that I came over. It was really good, we ate a ton. This last week was district conference and all the islands connected by camara. An area seventy came down to talk to us, Elder Wright from England, and it was really good. Presidente Watkins and Sister Watkins came down as well, and we had a good meeting, for the first half hour the camaras weren´t working, and when we have had problems before we shut the power off to the chapel and then turn it back on and it works after that for some reason, so the counselor in the district presidency was trying to figure out how to get everything working, and so I went into the hall to tell him that maybe if we turned the power off it would work. At first he wasn´t sure, because we had a chapel full of people, but it still wasn´t working, so we shut the power off, and turned it back on and then it all worked fine after that.
Elder Kap and I one night decided to go and visit a less active family that we had never met, and when we rang the doorbell they let us in and after talking for a little bit they told us how crazy it was that we rang the doorbell when we did, because right before the wife asked the husband why he didn´t go to the church, and the husband asked her the same thing, and the second after we rang the doorbell. They´re like 28-30, he´s from Argentina and served a mission and she´s from here and they live with her mom and little brother who haven´t gone to church for a long time either. And they have two little kids. So after that we have been visiting them about every week and we have had family home evening and lessons, and they all have super strong testimonies, and we invited them to come to church, but they still didn´t have the desire to come. And so the area 70 and president Watkins and the president of the district, saturday night before the conference picked two inactive families to visit, and it was them and the family, of the brother, of the husband who also served a mission in Argentina, and is inactive. So they visited them and had a super spiritual night with them and then the next day they all came to church, and it was so good to see them there. They are such good people. We are also helping two other less active family, and one of the families has a daughter who married a return missionary, and who lives in Las Vegas, and when we were visiting them the mother was talking on the phone to the daughter in las vegas, and she wanted to talk to me, and I talked to her and she asked for our house number and she wanted to call you guys. Everything is going good, I´m glad I get to stay here at least one more transfer. It´s a great place. I´m going to come home with a bunch of canary islands food recipies. thanks for everything have a good week!