October 8, 2012

Wow, so general conference was amazing this past weekend, I learned so much and was able to strengthen my testimony even more in the gospel. It was so great to hear from our living prophet and apostles and hear the words that Heavenly Father wanted us to hear at this point. There was so much that we could all learn and I hope that everyone was able to receive answers to the questions they had, I know I did. One thing I liked a lot as well was Russell M. Nelsons talk about asking the missionaries about lifes great questions. I reinforce that invite for anyone who isn't a member of the church. The answers to lifes great questions have been restored!

However, this week we also lost a lot of work time, with general conference and we also had mission council which is for all the Zone Leaders on the mission. We had to leave on Tuesday night at about 6 to go to Sorocaba and we slept there with other missionaries. Elder Siddoway, from BYU, and Elder Vincent, my MTC companion. They're companions right now in Trujillo which is also my first zone that I was in and we slept in their house. So many great memories that we talked about. Then we lost the entire day on Wednesday in the captial of Sao Paulo, but a majority of the time was spent in vans and buses. We only got back to our area on Wednesday night at 630. One full complete day out of our area. So the week was a little difficult and we had to try and pack everything into a few days. However we had an amazing experience this week on Thursday. We were looking for 2 less active members but no one was home so we knocked on the neighbors door to see if the people still lived there, long story short we ended up teaching this family that we knocked their door. At the end of the lesson the wife asked us why she was feeling a burning sensation in her heart when we were talking to her, we testified that it was the Holy Ghost confirming what we were teaching. Then the next day we went back again to reinvite them to general conference again and she told us that the night before we showed up the first time she had had a dream about finding the true path of Christ in the middle of so many paths that exist and then we showed up. IT WAS AWESOME! And on Saturday they went to general conference in church dress. So sick. It was an awesome experience. And extremely spiritual.

As for the rest of the week we faced a few difficulties but we have faith and know that if we continue we will be blessed in the end by the Lord.

Eu Te Amo

Elder Gleason

P.S. Alma 46:15; 47:10-13; 48:11. 17

"If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing." -Pres Henry B Eyring (COnference April 2012)