General Conference is the best 2 weekends of the year!

Everyone

Hey!!! 

Super crazy week. It’s been super fun and I LOVED conference!! It’s like the best weekend on the mission and it comes 2 times a year too!! We watched it here in the church but on the computer in the Family history center with the other 2 Hermanas in our ward who both are Americans. I really liked the sessions though. I wish I could have mentally prepared myself a little better but we had a pretty crazy week and yeah. Favorite talks would be by Elder Holland and Pres Uchdorf. Their talks were right after each other and they explained the Atonement and the need for it and it was super good. They cleared up some great stuff for me and how I can use that to teach too.

My companion is pretty cool. He grew up in Omaha Nebraska but then moved to Morgan UT for the last 2 years before his mission. We get along really good and its super fun. We are like super good zone leaders for the Hermana’s and it’s been super fun so far. It’s pretty normal now being a zone leader. I really like DC 107:99 because it talks about everyone learning their duty then doing it with all diligence. I feel like I’ve been in that lately. I’m learning what I’m supposed to do then just doing my best. I’m still learning a ton and I have my comp who has a little more time and knowledge than me as a ZL and so that helps a lot too. I still don’t know all the area or all the investigators because of the lack of time we have to teach people but Galeana is pretty cool. SUPER HOT.

So Tuesday my comp and I went to the district meeting like normal but we just gave some announcements really quick at the beginning and then had to run to Cuernavaca really quick. There we had an interview with president that was about the zone then we had like 3 hours of free time. We decided to go to Centro of Cuernavaca and it was super cool!!! That’s like the place that’s so dang cool and the reason why people go there. There were like a bajillion people and we just went around shopping. I had a Krispy Kreme for the first time in like a year. Then we went shopping a bit and I got a really cool new backpack for P-days and divisions and stuff and then we went to the BBQ from Hermana Kusch which was super good! Then we stayed at the offices to sleep and the next day we had council with president. It was super cool because we got to hear right from his mouth what he wanted done and things he’s learned so that we can understand them better. Then we went back to the house after that and got to work just a bit on Wednesday.

Thursday morning we went with the Hermanas again to close their old house and help move a few last things. Then we got to work that afternoon too! Friday we had interviews with president so we were at the church from like 9 to 3ish making sure things went nice and smoothly. Saturday was conference so we were just at the church allll day and then same with Sunday! So that was my week. Super crazy. I’m hoping that this week will be a bit more normal and we will get to go out and teach just a bit more. I still need to get to know the area because we will start doing divisions with the DLs and the assistants more. Galeana is super cool and I love the people here. It’s not too much different from Cuautla but its SUPER HOT like every night we sleep with our fans on and no covers and are still dying. It’s like the hottest part of the year so it’s to be expected. I can’t wait for the rainy season though. It’s gonna be great.

So one last thing from conference that I loved. I don’t remember who it was that went over the parable of the debtor but it gave a new insight for me. Basically a debtor forgives someone who owes 50 and someone that owes 500. The question is who will love the person who forgave them more? This is applied to all our lives. We are all in debt to Jesus Christ for what he did in the Atonement. It doesn’t matter if someone sinned all there life before they accepted him and decided to follow them or if someone who was born in the church and lived a life following Christ since they can remember. We are ALL in debt to him. There is NOTHING we can gain from our own merits and we have to rely COMPLETELY in Christ to be saved. We can all be like the one who was forgiven 500 and loved more for that because every day we repent and give more to be forgiven. There is never a reason to look down on someone who is or isn’t trying to following Christ but doing bad things. We are all lost and all must rely on Christ.

I hope you all received your own personal revelation for things in your lives from General Conference. Watch it all again! It’s not all over and done. We have to keep reminding ourselves because we are human and forget. Anyways that’s my sh-peel for the day. 

I love you all! I know the church is true and I’m super happy to be here as a missionary!

Have a great week!!

Love, Elder Marrott