October 4, 2010
Dear Fambily and all the other lovely people that are lucky enough to receive this email,
This past week was wonderful!!!!!! Oh, um..... Happy Birthday Little Brother(:P)!! Hope it was a good one at home and for conference. What a present you received- hearing the prophet speak! Oh man did I love general conference! For those who don't know what it is, it is where the prophet and apostles and other leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints speak to everyone in the world. It is amazing because they are giving us help and guidance that they have been received from God. It isn't just for the members of the LDS Church and if you'd like to watch some and see the living prophet speak, you can go to lds.org(i think, or maybe mormon.org) and watch them. It I got that wrong, ask my mother and she can direct you to it.
To answer your question Dad, I was able to see all of the sessions except for the sunday afternoon one. We went to the stake center and saw the saturday morning session live. Sunday is basically an all day thing for conference here in England and others in the world. We went to the stake center at 10am to watch a recording of the priesthood session. The recording of the saturday afternoon session then followed at 1 and then we watched the sunday morning session live at 5. We were at the stake center on sunday from like 930am to about 745pm. It was a long time being there, but it was awesome. I got the most out of this conference than any other one I've ever seen. It's probably because I never really paid too much attention to what they all had to say. I just love conference now!!! It teaches you so much and it reaffirmed my testimony of President Thomas S. Monson as God's prophet and mouthpiece on the Earth! His talk at the end of the sunday morning session was sooo powerful. I wish we would've had some investigators there with us. The missionaries from Wolverhampton has one there that they had just met and hadn't really taught anything, but she went away saying that she know's that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God!!!! So awesome!!!!!!! I invite everyone to watch that talk by him and listen to your heart and mind and feelings. I promise you that if you do, that you WILL know that he truly is a prophet and the leader of God's church on the Earth!
This was a good week(made awesome by conference, but a good week in general). We didn't have as much time this week to find people because of General Conference and also a large training meeting we had on Thursday. I've learned sooo much from this week on how to be a better teacher, person, member, just a better everything basically. I've learned the importance of the Spirit in missionary work(and life too, but I'm not to focused on that right now). He is the one that does the converting and guides us to what we need to teach and say to meet the needs of each person we teach because each person is unique and there are different things in the gospel that will help them at that time. The gospel is soo great because it is there to help everyone in ways that they probably don't know. Yes, we talk about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon a lot and the reason is because if they start to learning the gospel and reading the Book of Mormon, it will bless and improve the quality of there lives. We are here to not just spread the gospel, but help improve others lives by learning about the gospel and abiding by it's principles. I love it! My mind has just been opened to how this gospel helps everyone and the importance of it since I've been out here. I encourage all of you to just look into it if you haven't yet and just be open-minded and I know you'll want to learn more.
Sorry about all of that, I was just on a roll writing. This week is the week of Ian's baptism!!!! WOOHOO!!! I'm so excited for him. He is so ready. We are going by tomorrow to hopefully watch the Testiments(movie about Christ and his coming to visit the ancient America's after His resurrection) with him and his wife. He is doing so well and has stopped smoking both cigars and cigarettes. I'm so excited for him!! You can see the difference it's made in his life and hopefully that will them move to his wife wanting to know more and same with his 2 boys. I sure hope they want to join him in this journey and I know that he wants them to since family is soo important in our church and I want him to be able to experience the joy of this gospel with him family!
We have tried teaching English to Jarro and Katrina once now. I think I've learned more Slovakian than she has english :) Hey Elizabeth, Boh je vas Otec v nebesian. Pozna vas osobne... there is more but I can't remember the order of the words. To everyone: Boh miluje vas!!(God loves you in Slovak unless I have it wrong gramatically which i'm pretty sure it is). It is a struggle right now- considering that I've never had to teach English before- but we learned that there is a return missionary in Lichfield(stake center) that just came back from Slovakia on his mission, so we've spoken with him and he's agreed to help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That will help so much! We had been looking for a Slovak Book of Mormon for them for the longest time, but we learned they don't make them yet, so we got them a Czech one since the languages are close. We learned from the RM(returned missionary) that they've finished the translation, but now it is going back through to make sure it is correct.
Also we just got a new investigator that should be super good. His name is Roy and he's either from Jamaica or South Africa. I don't know which one. All I know is that he's black and super awesome. He allowed us to come by to answer a question he had about Adam and Eve and how could we have come about if they only had 2 sons, Cain and Abel.(the answer is found in Genesis 5 btw) So we read that to him and he then flat our said "Now that I know that, I will come to church." We then taught him about the Restoration and it went sooo well. We applied the training we received and the spirit was so strong!!! It was sooo good and he is so awesome. I'm excited to teach him again.
So yeah, life is going awesome and I'm loving it. It's crazy to think that my 3 month mark is this week. Has it really been that long?? Wow is all I can say. I love all this post i get and emails from everyone- I feel so loved!! And best of all, Elder Davis is starting to get jealous which is super gut(german for good btw. and yes i know my comp isn't german anymore)! Elder Davis and I have been so blessed in finding people that are welcome to receive our message and see how it can help them. We are still working hard to find more, because there is no such thing as too many people to help!
I love you all, sorry if I'm no good at answering questions that you present to me. Um..... if you've sent post, this is the first p-day in the past 3 that I've actually had a chance to write, so that's what I'll be doing today. Keep me updated on your lives, I love to read about them! Sorry Mom and Dad that I didn't wish a happy anniversary or say Happy Birthday to Kaycee and Grandma. I did remember and love you, it's just kind of hard to do anything while so far away.
So I just wrote a whole bunch, but then it got deleted-so annoying. It was to grandma and you dad if you know a George and Isabell Cannon who at one point were the mission president of my mission from like 66' to 69' or something like that. They had 5 sons and 2 daughters. Also do you know someone that had a son that served in the central England mission or something like that from 68' to 70' that lived or lives in Parowan. I bring this us because there is an man in our ward named Stan Woods. He is probably one of the oldest members here in Walsall and has been in the church the longest out of everyone in our ward. He told me about those guys when he said that he was able to go to general conference when he was a stake president here and he said he stayed in Parowan at one point and even spoke at the church in like 70'. I don't know if Grandma remembers him or knows who the other people are. Stan couldn't remember the name of the one that had a son serve here, which is why I don't have the name.
I love you all and I'm so grateful for all, family and friends, that you've done for me to get me to where I am now because I know I wouldn't without you! I am especially grateful for you Mom and Dad for all that you've sacrificed to give me the life I've been able to have. I couldn't have asked for a better one so far!!! I love you soo much!
Keep on working hard and I love all these emails and post. I love hearing about your lives!!! so keep it up!
love, Elder Nanders
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