Hola people! This week was easily one of the best of my mission. And it ended fantastically with the best general conference ever! Seriously, it was awesome. But first I want to talk about investigators! Because we're finally starting to see some progress which I'm really excited about.
So we have this eternal investigator named Claudio that knows that he's going to get baptized, but he just doesn't feel like he's ready to do it now. He feels like he's never received an answer. I understand what he's feeling, I remember feeling frustrated that I had never felt like I had received an answer to know if the Book of Mormon is true, that is until I went on Heritage Tours and the answer was unmistakable. But we made a good deal of progress with him this week! We had done a family home evening with him and his LDS girlfriend and her family about the Book of Mormon, and I was able to share my initial conversion experience with him. After the lesson, he asked the other elders how they came to know that the church was true. The other three elders gave powerful experiences and testimonies of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and the Restoration. After, he asked me to name three changes that I've seen in myself by being here in the mission, and if I have ever felt like I have lost myself. It was definitely the most interesting question I've ever gotten by anybody, and to answer truthfully would definitely be revealing a piece of my soul to everybody in the room. But I decided to do it anyway! Words kind of exploded out of my mouth, and I forgot what I exactly said, but I'm certain that some of my words needed to be heard that night. It was an awesome experience, and the Spirit was very strong. After I stopped, it was silent for a bit, then Claudio just leaned over and gave me stones hahaha he's a cool guy.
We also found two new investigators this week. They're super interesting people, and the lesson was a little odd. BUT new investigators are a thing to celebrate anyway, and they did agree to let us come back and teach them more, even though they assure us that they're set in their ways and they're never going to change. My comp told them that they could be surprised how the will of the Lord for people can be manifest by two young boys, and they both admitted the possibility! So it was progress.
General Conference! So lucky that my birthday fell on general conference weekend. I don't have a lot of time to share conference thoughts sadly, but I took a bucket load of notes and loved every minute of it. It was all extremely inspired, especially the messages from our beloved prophet. I especially appreciated how the talk about feeling more entitled when we're farther from God preceded those who shouted their oppositions in the sustaining rather than raising their hands as indicated. They likely didn't even listen to it.
My birthday was great! My comp made a cake for me while I was in the shower (I have no idea how he pulled that off) and we all had cake for breakfast! Then that night I made the cake that Mom sent me the ingredients for (which wasn't too easy with the Chilean supplies I had, the ovens don't have any way of setting or measuring the temperature) and finished it this morning and we ate it for breakfast! Cake for breakfast two days in a row! Delicious. Also, thanks a ton for the gifts you sent. I loved the hump day pillow case, it was a little hard to explain what our hump day radio show was (or what hump day is and why it's called that) to my comps in Spanish but I think they thought it was clever too! I also love the ties, whoever picked those out definitely has a good taste of ties. I love you all!
SO! I honestly have no idea how to tell you all why the week was so great without being ridiculously vague, so I'll just have to be ridiculously vague! I don't think I've ever felt more spiritual light and guidance in my entire life than I felt this week. I feel very different, very changed, and my conviction to serve my loving Father and to love Him and His children with all my heart, might, mind, and strength has doubled, even tripled. I feel like I've never felt before the desire to serve Him in the exact way that He would have me serve Him, and to give all my life to Him. I feel a burning conviction in my heart to consecrate my all to my Savior. I'm a rough stone rolling, but I will always be eternally grateful for my experiences here.
Out of time! I love you all! Have a great week!
Love
Elder Fox
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