I got to see
every meeting of conference except the one for the women obviously.. which I
will download later on to hear. My two favorite talks were about
the African 70 Dube or something like that about not looking back and
that we need to take our covenants seriously and that it is not enough
to say that we have accomplished this or that but what is important is
what are we doing right now. Also the other talk with Elder Uchtdorf
about joining us and that the church requires so much of the members
but it is the only way because God requires our hearts. I loved that he
said the church is perfect but the membrs are not and never will be
because I was thinking that in Ephisians it says that we have a church
function to be perfected in Christ so that is the whole reason we have a
church. Really I loved every talk because I took 13 pages of notes
and a lot of their messages struck me. When Elder Eyring talked about the
boy in prison and the mother questioning God, it made me cry. God
loves us so much sometimes we don't even realize it.. What blessings. I
was sad that conference ended because now I have to wait 6 more months
for the next one.
This week we had exchanges with the assistants
and I learned a lot from Elder Tarrega. We also had our zone leader
council and we learned lots in regard to studying for our
investigators to transfer the spirit to them. Did my tape for Jackie
arrive? How is the family? I am so jealous of Carli because I want to go
to conference! Actually I have a goal for our family that we can
all go together, and if that is impossible at least Ryan, dad and I
together like a priesthood party. I bet it was great to go to
priesthood with Ryan for the first time! What a blessing to have a dad
that honors his priesthood. Ryan be grateful because I now know a ton
of people that do not have that blessing :) I liked that it talked
about how much the women in our lives also play such an important role
for the priesthood. Really a priesthood holder is nothing without his
wife and support like Thomas S Monson was telling us. What a grand
testimony our prophet has about the plan of salvation. Je knows he will
be with his wife again. This is the church of God there is no doubt!
(EXCLAMATION MARK) I will doubt my doubts before I doubt my faith :D
Thanks for being such an excellent family and I will be so happy when
the day comes that we can do the work for Aunt Inez. she will accept the
truth lickity split! Keep working in the truth and do what Elder
Ballard invited us to do. EVERY MEMBER has to invite someone before Christmas... Keep it in your mind that those 10 investigators can be 20 and
10 baptismal dates. Don't conform yourselves :)
Love Elder Cramer
P.S. I got to watch it in English hehe :)
September 30, 2013 letter
hey hey hey hey :)
Wow how fantastic that you were able to baptize someone dad. I bet it reminded you of your mission a tad huh? Are
all of his kids baptized already as well? If not you have some more work
to do for sure. And how many missionaries will you have in the
ward then? Is the Spanish branch also increasing a little bit? What are
the stake goals that you have put with President? Thanks for sending
those things as I want come home a spiritual and physical giant :) At least
something to start out with. I am trying to prepare a lot of people for
the gospel. I am talking to like 10 friends every Monday and trying to
fit in small reminders of God every time. Graham really needs some help
these days. He moved back in with his mom because she had a heart attack
and I think it would be worth it to try and teach him again. He would
make a great person to be baptized because there are a lot of things he
would like to change about himself and he doesn't know how. He needs the
plan of salvation. se le encargo :) How is Jackie doing anyways. I have
emailed her like 3 times and she doesn't have time for me apparently.
No I bet she is busy. Let Kolten know I am stoked to help him
prepare for the mission along with Carli. We can go out with the
missionaries and teach a bunch of our friends. It'll help him a lot I
think. And our zone capacitation was really good I think we are always
focusing on practices now and President really focused about getting
along with our latino companions because sometimes the culture
differences don't help us have the spirit with us but I don't have a
problem with that at all. I have loved all of my companions. The
trick that I try to use is what dad told me like a year ago, trying to
find out why God put with him and what can I learn from him and I try
thinking.. if he were my wife (this is really hilarious, oh Logi) what would I do to serve him? so that is
what has helped me haha. Tomorrow we have exchanges with the assistants
and then this Thursday we have zone leader council. Then 2 weeks
from today we have changes so who knows what will happen. You should also
give a calling to your new member there because I feel bad for alot of
new converts here because our ward council doesn't do anything and we
have 6 recently baptized priesthood holders and each without callings...
:( Sometimes I feel this ward doesn't want to grow. But we are
trying to help them. At the meeting we had with President Flores and our Stake President Jasso, we set some goals for him and to try and get the
work going. I felt like I was helping a lot of people in that meeting
and it is fun working with the big hot shots haha :) I hope you are all
doing wonderful and I am looking forward so much to seeing the prophet. Today we have a family home evening and a less active that we are teaching,
is going to invite 2 friends that went to church yesterday! So we are
excited :)
Elder Cramer
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