Muppet Treasure Island is one of Sister R.'s favorite movies -- also Support Your Local Sheriff! She's seen a lot of the good old ones. Recently a member challenged my level of movie culture, saying that I "couldn't have seen the original Arsenic and Old Lace with Gary Grant." Psshh -- I set that right! It doesn't get better than Cary Grant. Sister R. hasn't seen Muppets from Space, though; that will be remedied soon upon my arrival back home. Which will be in like 20 years, because I'm definitely not approaching my year mark or anything . . . weird!"
L. was baptized on Friday! I will send pictures! It was a wonderful baptism. Very small, but that was good because he asked me to speak. I don't like talking in front of people -- I'm shy! I've gotten used to teaching one-on-one and really enjoy it, but public speaking . . . ! L. will be confirmed this Sunday and he'll receive the priesthood as well. He's finished the Book of Mormon for the SECOND time! His favorite BoM prophets are Captain Moroni and Alma the younger.
Conference was amazing! We had four investigators attend, as well as a less active member. I'm excited for the conference Ensign to come out. Favorite addresses: Elder Ballard -- loved the bee analogy; Elder Bednar -- parable of the Ten Virgins as an illustration of testimony vs. conversion; Pres Uchtdorf -- life is not a race, it's a journey; Elder Holland -- I'm always inspired by his loving rebukes and his knowledge and understanding of the New Testament; Elder Nelson -- has such confidence in us missionaries! I hope we can help all those people who start asking us for help.
I could tell that a lot of the addresses were directed toward nonmembers. I wonder how many nonmembers watched or listened and felt the Spirit?
Huge news about changing the age requirement for full-time missionaries! That is going to be awesome. I think that more sisters will serve. I think the announcement is another sign of the Last Days. The rising generation is going to need to be stronger than ever in order to be parents in the falling world's immorality and chaos. As a missionary currently serving, it's interesting to think that the sisters coming in can be 19! But that's the age of our mini-missionaries, so it's not too weird!
Transfers are this week and I'm pretty sure Sister R. will be leaving. I hope I get another rock-awesome companion!
We go on exchanges today -- my former companion, Sister K., will be coming here! It should be AWESOME!
We watched Testaments with Jo. and S. this week and it was awesome -- especially for S. She made the comment that she's heard people say that Jesus died for us, but that she'd never understood that he actually DIED for us. It touched J. as well. She loved how the father went to rescue his son, even though he didn't know if the son had chosen right.
We were able to teach Ja. part of the Restoration between sessions on Saturday. The lesson went really well. She told us that she'd had an argument with a coworker about us being Christian. She told the coworker that we are definitely Christian because MOTAB has a Christmas album. :)
Saturday it was super cold and got dark earlier than usual; I was tempted to work on records in our apartment instead of tracting. Once it's dark, people get upset about us knocking on their door. Instead I said, "We're finding a new investigator!" and we went knocking at an apartment complex. We found T. and her son C. T. is so full of faith that she didn't even question Joseph Smith's story. She is also excited about living prophets. We're teaching her the Plan of Salvation per her request TODAY! Awesome!
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