2011 Jan 17

2011 Jan 17

Family!

Hello! This last week has been pretty awesome. The day after I emailed you guys, we had conferences. What I got from it is that you can solve all of your problems by reading the scriptures. He had a list of 14 things that will help you as you are studying the scriptures (a lot of which can be found in Chapter 2 of Preach my Gospel), but one thing that I liked that he said that, more or less, that you don´t have a right to receiving revelation if you are not studying the scriptures. It´s really important and that you need to keep a study journal. Mas or menos, what he said was that if you are not writing down what you are learning and what you are receiving through revelation in your study journal then you won´t remember what you are learning so it´s basically like you aren´t learning anything! Therefore, it is really important that you keep a study journal. I´m going to buy one in Momostenango right after I finish up with this. So I am excited about that.

Also, I memorized like 5 different scriptures (one was a quote from Wilford Woodruff) this week in Spanish! Something else he said was Memorizing scriptures is really good too because "if it is part of your mind then it will be part of your heart" (more or less what he said in Spanish). But shoot! There are so many good scriptures in the scriptures! My favorite one that I memorized in Spanish this last week was (I may have already said that I liked this one) Alma 37:34. Good one. READ IT. And I got like 3 letters from people when I went down for conference on Tuesday! And all of them made my day. HEY! Speaking of letters, Evan Bogdan from BYU in a letter that I got back in the CCM said that he is reporting to the MTC this Wednesday to learn Spanish for Columbia! ¡CRAZY!

Oh! And before I forget, Bishop Burton (the Presiding bishop of the whole church) is going to come down on Thursday to give us a conference. So we are going to go down to Xela to see it. I´m pretty excited about it.

So Canqui this week. It was pretty good. We did a lot of service this last week (I´m a pro now at de pine-needling trees now) and we actually even had a district conference in centro in Momos. We tried to get this one Investigator that we had named Evaraldo to come but he said that he couldn´t because he had to go to the market to sell linea. And we couldn´t get any of the less activos familias to come either. So we had the conference yesterday in the Huge capilla that they have here in Momos and the president even came down to it! Smart guy, he is. And after the conference, we had interviews with him and he said that he is going to close down Canquixaja because he is just wasting good elders there because there hasn´t been a family that has gotten baptized there for 7 years and all of the baptisms that have been there in the past have just been baptizing the children of the less active families. We were actually fasting at the time, on Sunday during the conference so that we could find some people who were ready for the gospel so that we could get some positive investigators and who would be able to cumplir con todo sus compromisos. I guess that that was our answer... So we are getting emergency changed out. I was kind of sad when I found out because the people there are really great pero está bien I guess.

And I am trying learn Quiche still and now I can talk about things when there are more than one of them! And I´m learning a lot of Spanish words too as I memorize scriptures and read them and realize that I don´t know what some words mean. My little notebook that I have of words that I don´t know is getting filled up pretty fast.

So that was my week! Have a great one you guys!

Love, Elder Froelich