Wow,
what a incredible week that we have had, it has probably been one of the best
weeks of my mission, it was extremely great weather (today is raining though)
and yesterday was the best conference that i have every gone to, it was so
great and so spiritually uplifting.
On
wednesday, we had cambios so i have come here to the city of Osorno in the zone
of Rahue which is great, and i am with a boss of a companion named Elder
Smithson from Gilbert, Arizona, he is way cool and we have known each other
since the MTC because we started the mission together, he is cool, he also
studied in the Air Force academy and is wanting to be a pilot, its great, we
get along great.
So
on sunday we had a special stake conference where Elder Walter F Gonzalez who
is the area president spoke with his wife and with the temple president and
matron of the santiago temple, so good. They spoke of three principle points.
1.The
inportance of always having a current temple recomend, even if you cant always
go
2.
Reading the book of mormon as a family always
3.
Paying tithing AND OFFERINGS
It
was great and i was at the door because we are zone leaders to greet elder
gonzalez when he came into the conference which was a great experience.
On
Monday morning, we had to go the city of Puerto MOntt super early for a very
tiring day, so i was playing the prelude music with some violins and it sounded
really good, and the Elder Ballard, Elder Rasband and Elder Gonzales so i
stopped the piano and stood then the told me to keep playing but then i had to
stop again to go shake their hands which was awesome and Elder Ballard told me
that my playing was very good haha, sso when i got done there wasnt a seat
around except up on the stage so i decided to go and sit behind all of the
general authorities haha, bu it was a great conference, Elder gonzalez was the
only one who spoke spanish, the others had a translater but it was awesome to
hear them in english.
My
favorite quote of the day that i heard was
"I
would rather offend man that i would God", that is the reason that we
invite everyone to hear the gospel and we dont worry about being rejected.
Just
so many other cool things that i couldnt even begin to talk about, just the
entire time i felt the spirit, and i loved it.
I
hope that everyone takes advantage of the fact that we hvae living day apostles
and prophets and seventy, we need to listen to them and do as they say.
I
love you all and am so grateful for this sacred time in my life to be a
missionary.
Love
Elder Nelson
