Again, I missed this one too! I forward on to everyone in the contact list but I guess I was forgetting to post. I apologize! This is his report on General Conference October 2012.
October 8, 2012
Hello there everyone!! I really hope you had a chance to watch conference this past weekend!! Holy Smokes can you believe it??? 18 yrs old for boys and 19 for girls!!! When I heard that I seriously was freakin out and didnt know what to think! haha anyway I will talk a little bit more about conference in just a little bit!
So this last week went really well!! So monday and tuesday nothing too exciting happened but on wednesday we had a zone meeting! There were two men that came in from the proselyting division from Salt lake city and talked to the leaders of the mission on how to triple our baptizms!! That was what our zone meeting was about and it was all stuff that was like oh well Duh.... but no one ever thought of it before! haha so that was a good meeting:) After the meeting I went on an exchange with one of the zone leaders to chapel hill:) well instead of going to UNC campus we went to duke and I got to teach a lesson to a guy in the Duke Chapel!! Pretty neat huh?? haha crazy story though.. when we were on our way there we were driving on a small 2 ln highway.(kind of like highway 89) So we were driving and next thing we know we see this car in the distance slowly swerve into our lane and started coming head on with us. We saw that and just got into the right lane but as we did that the car followed... I was for sure we were going to slam head on!! Elder Christiansen (Zone leader) slammed on the breaks and at the very last second this woman swerves out of the way and barely misses us!! Luckily for us there were no other cars on the road, in the middle of the city pretty much in mid day... Wow can you believe that!! The lord was watching over us there, thats for sure!! haha so thats my crazy story of the week! So that night I ended up getting really sick and I got maybe an hour of sleep! I was sweating and had a fever and sore throat and everyting... yea no beuno!! (if your wondering, I have been learning some new languages out here) haha but anyway so that was pretty much all that happened on that exchange!!
The next two days until conference werent too productive cause I was so sick and just feeling like crud! But saturday I was just fine! So saturday was conference day and my favorite talk was Elder Neilsons talk about "if you have a question, ask the Missionaries, they can help you!!" haha oh that was so good I loved it! We went to a members home for dinner that night and he is still really young! married 2 years maybe... haha anyway he is sooo funny he was telling us all of his mission stories and I laughed so hard at them! He took us to Preisthood session afterwords! It was an all around great day!
Now onto sunday!! This day was the highlight of my week... You may be wondering why I waited till last to tell about it... hmmm well I guess I dont have a real answer for it other than its how it fell in order this week... I dunno!! haha anyway so I had a great study on sunay morning! I read in Alma 26 and this is where Ammon is seeing the blessings of being able to bring the lamanites into the gospel! As I read that I pondered my blessings I have in my life and what the lord has done for me! I never realized how much he has done for me until I read this and really pondered my blessings in my life! He then goes on to say in verse 12, "yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all thing; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever." This whole chapter hit me hard that I need to be better and give thanks to the lord more for what he has given me! Dont overlook the small blessings in your life because sometimes its the small blessings that mean the most to us! I know that with the power of our Father in Heaven in me, I will be able to accomplish the things that he has sent me here to do in North Carolina!
Now moving on to the later part of the day! Sorry almost done... haha So we went to Brother Mcdonalds house to watch the first session of conference and we watched it with Katharine as well!! Wwwhhooooaaaaa wasnt Elder Holland just amazing as always!! Wow he is so powerful! haha anyway so after conference we taught Katharine the first discussion and invited her to be baptized! As we promised her the blessings that would come from living this gospel and being baptized she smiled and looked at us and said "yes I want to be baptized!!" We were so stoked i was just so happy!! So for now we have the date set with her for Nov 3:):) We are going to be meeting with her 2 times a week till then to get her ready! :) Now not only is that going good but Brother Mcdonald is making a huge turn around in his life as well! He has taken his ear rings out and is beginning to live the gospel righteously again! He told us that he couldnt have done it without us! Just the whole situation of how we can across him and met Katharine... Just an absolute blessing!!! :)
Well I Hope all of you have a great week!!
One of my new favorite qutoes: "Remember, you always stand taller when your on your knees!"
I love and miss all of you!! :)
Elder Betker!! :)
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