Monday, October 6, 2014

Conference yo!

Hey everyone I love! 

I´m super exhausted right now haha.... one of our roommates, Hermana Burr, had cambios today so we were all helping her pack late last night. So I´m lacking sleeepppppppp. blaho. BUT this was an awesome week so that makes up for it. :)

GENERAL CONFERENCE AHHHHHH. I love it. It was super weird seeing Salt Lake City on TV though haha I wasn´t expecting all the feelings of home to hit me so hard. Plus mom I saw you again! haha idk if you noticed or not but they showed a picture of you from one of your Mormon Messages in between the sessions of conference. I was like, "that´s my mom!" and all the missionaries we were with were like.... uhhh Hermana Cannon is hallucinating... she must really miss her family haha. But then after my companion testified of the truthfulness of my words, they finally believed me. XD 

How was conference for you guys? I hope you all got to see it! I think my favorite talks were probably D. Todd Christofferson´s and Elder Uctdorf´s. I loved that the focus was on gaining our own understanding of the gospel and seeking our own personal confirming revelation of the things the prophets say. I also loved the relation that Christofferson made between freedom, gravity, and obedience. He said something like, freedom doesn´t come from resisting the law of gravity, but instead from understanding and applying it. WHOA. So true! The law exists and we can´t do anything about that soooo we should just start trying to figure it out and let that understanding help us create cool inventions. Just like the commandments. Consequences just exist. Good and bad. So we should just start trying to figure them out aka the gospel aka how to gain eternal life and let that knowledge help us instead of try to resist it. I hope that made sense haha. If not-- READ THE TALK IT´S SO AWESOME.

I felt like Uctdorf´s talk was mas o menos about the same thing too and I LOVED IT just as much. The take away I got from his talk was this: the understanding we seek about life and the gospel might not come as fast as we want, and we might not ever come to a COMPLETE understanding before we die, but I felt like the spirit was telling me during the talk that if we do our part in trying to understand, we will. Or at least we won´t sit there in a rut. God will keep opening up the truth to us if we keep asking and studying. 

ESO.

Me encanta conferencia genial. :) 

Other than that it´s been a pretty crazy week! Ooooo we had an awesome lesson last night with Rosario, the investigator who is trying to quit smoking. We talked about the Plan of Salvation. I basically just bore my testimony the whole time haha. Since I started my mission, the purpose of life has gotten a lot clearer for me and I loooove talking about it. Especially to people who have never realized what it is. After the lesson Rosario said she felt something really special and she felt good. I told her that was the spirit. :) I felt it too. Then she gave us yummy oranges to take home haha. YAY FOOD. 

Anyways, I hope you guys can feel my prayers. :) I´m constantly praying for you guys and you´re always in my heart. 

PEACE AND LOVE. 

Lots of it though. 

:) Hna. Cannon II  

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