This week my companion and I received a nasty cold. I had a fever for a bit, she had a fever for a bit. And we just were not sure if we could leave the door one morning. But we had 5 lessons planned for the day. So we decided to complete our studies and see what happened. We received a talk from Zone Conference and we were asked to study it and apply its principles. So that morning my companion and I read In the Strength of the Lord by Elder Bednar. It is fantastic! (I included it as a link and for my missionary friends it will send you to a missionary safe page and I suggest you print it out and read it this week.)
Anyways, we were sick and miserable and we read this talk. It suggests that we change the way we pray about things. Instead of praying for us to be healed from our cold, we stopped and started praying that we would have the strength to leave our apartment and complete the tasks that we had laid out before us. We then left that day and had 4 back to back lessons and taught an English class. It was an amazing day! I learned that it is important not to pray to have your circumstances changed, but to pray to be strengthened in our circumstances. Although trials and burdens can be hard to bear receiving the strength from the Lord to carry them, rather than trying to throw them off our shoulders is the better route. Because his yoke is easy and his burden is light. The point of the story is, you too can use this same enabling power of the atonement. It is cool and I encourage you try it our sometime.
Also General Conference happened. When you were all snuggled in your pajamas I was watching the first session at 7:00 at night! We had sacrament meeting on GC day and watched one of the sessions for church. It was so good! We had the opportunity of watching these sessions with some investigators and they absolutely loved the experience. It was interesting to see the choir. I have been told that Americans really stand out like a sore thumb in Europe but I didn't believe it until we were watching General Conference and I noticed for the first time the contrast between Romanians and Americans. Lots of Blondes in the choir and the hair dos are... different... AHahah!
I have not seen all of the sessions yet since the last one aired at midnight last night. But so far my favorite part of conference was the talk from Lynn G. Robbins. His powerful words of having courage really stuck my heart. SOmetimes it is a little difficult to open my mouth and tell people about the gospel and what I know to be true. I also really liked the idea from Elder Anderson that spiritual questions deserve spiritual answers.
Anyways, I have to go! But here are a few pictures. I love you so much and I hope you are all having a great time! Know that I pray for you every day. Pa!
-Sora Long
This is our district pausing our conference to have a small break and we took a picture, literally I think we were going a little crazy, not really sure...
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