Wow soo much to
say...again..I don't know where to start. Well for one, this week I hit
the half way mark! Time is FLYING by and I don't know how to make it
stop, I've been told it just goes faster so yeah. Things are good though
and I love Portoviejo! This week we went to Guayaquil for a nurses
conference and it was super great. Also, we went to this really nice
buffet restaurant as nurses with Hermana Dennis and it was sooo good!
So,
as for the title. This week on Saturday, we had a mission-wide
conference, actually is was a multi mission conference- Guayaquil North,
South, and West. Approx. 600 missionaries in one chapel. It was crazy.
And why were we gatherred there? Because Elder Rasband, of the quorum of
the 12 apostles came and we had a conference with him. It. was. so.
cool. I have never been that close to an apostle before. I was singing
in the choir and we were seated in the stand so I was even closer. What
an amazing experience. It is the first time in the history of all 3 of
our missions that an apostle of the Lord has come and had a conference
so it was a pretty historical day. He talked and the spirit could be
felt so strong. Before going to the conference, we all read a talk he
gave in 2010 called "The divine call of a missionary" and wow it is so
good. It talks about how each and every missionary is called to where
they need to be for a specific reason and that the apostles know
perfectly where to send us. He was telling us that just the other week
he was asigning missionaries to their missions and he assigned one to
Russia and then kept going on with the other missionaries and then said
"wait, we need to go back" and they went back and he said that that
missionary actually needed to go to Turkey and he said the spirit was so
strong and he knew where this missionary needed to go. He talked about
so many things and I don't have time to write about them all but I just
want to say being in the presence of one of the apostles of the Lord is
an extraordinary experience. Before the conference started, each and
every one of us got to shake Elder Rasband's hand. What an experience. I
still have the picture of his face in my mind as I shook his hand. What
a blessing it truly was.
Earlier
today, Elder Rasband came to Portoviejo to meet with us and it was also
such an amazing experience. He came and talked to all the people here
and the spirit was overwhelmingly strong. To hear an apostle bear
witness of the savior is something so powerful and you cannot deny the
spirit that is there. Afterwards, we all got the chance to shake his
hand...and so for me it was the second time I got to shake his hand.
This is an experience very special to me and one that I will never
forget. I mean, it's not every day that you get to shake an apostle's
hand...twice..
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