This week was hectic. Being in the office feels like I'm back as a Student Body Officer but with more work and a lot more stress.
This week Elder Held (a 70 who spoke last conference) came to visit our mission. This was a special occasion for us because we rarely get visited by general authorities. This is the first time a general authority has visited in my 16 months here. Also just a fun fact for y'all that apostles aren't allowed to visit our mission because its in a "red zone" meaning the altitude is way to high for it to be safe for them to come. So we were running around all week trying to get ready for the conferences. It turned out pretty well except for the fact that the lunch got there over an hour late... But I can't get too mad because they had to make 110 plates and have it delivered by 10:30 in the morning. But we did order it about a week ago.
But the conference was really good and Elder Held and his wife are super cool people. My favorite talk was by Sister Held. I'm pretty sure she has a background in psychology and she talked about how the thoughts we think lead to how we feel. For example when we think about something sad that's happened in our lives, we tend to feel sad. And when we think on a happy moment we feel happy. So she talked about how our mind creates about 50-80 thousand thoughts every day and we need to be careful on which thoughts we give energy to or focus on. We can't think too far into the past or too far into the future but to be in tuned strong enough to feel the spirit we need to be focused on in the moment.
Outside of the conference there isn't a lot to mention. I've been super tired this week because we've had to wake up extra early a couple different times and also Thursday the day of the conference we woke up at 4:45 to finish the preparations, then after the conference President did interviews for a zone that traveled to the conference. Well he started the interviews at 4:30 and any returned missionary knows interviews always go over time so instead of ending at 9:30 he actually didn't get done with interviews until 12:30. Then that zone of missionaries took a bus back to their area at 1:30am. So I didn't get to bed until a little past 2. So we were up for 21ish hours straight and are definitely feeling it now. But as my dad would always tell me, "people die in their sleep" haha so I guess it's not a bad thing to not get a lot of sleep.
To end I want to share my thoughts on God's grace. In the past two weeks I have witnessed it in my life more than ever before. Nephi says in the Book of Mormon that we are saved by grace after all we can do. Basically we do our part and God does the rest that we can't. Well after running around stressed all week doing our part, God definitely helped us out. For example, I'm in charge of making hotel reservations and President and the assistants traveled to the other side of the mission for one of the conferences with Elder Held. Almost forgetting to make the reservations, I quickly called and ordered the rooms like normal. But I forgot that the assistants are in a trio temporarily with another elder. Well I definitely ordered a two bed room for them forgetting the third one and then somehow the hotel accidentally gave them a room with three beds. Coincidence? I think not. Then later the zone for the jungle had to travel for conferences but a big landslide happened blocking off the road. Luckily a member who owns a tourist business was able to go pick them up at 3 in the morning in one of his buses and bring them safely to conference. I don't want to bore you but there were many times where my companion and I would notice a mistake or problem of ours magically get fixed, look at each other and say that was the grace of god. As humans we aren't even close to being perfect but if we try our best God does the rest.
Photos:
1) Baptism of Noemi!
2) idk
3) Biggest gathering of missionaries in history of our mission. (About 2/3 of the mission)
4) Nice to meet you
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