things have been going pretty good this week! we will be having 2 baptisms this saturday so that will be awesome, it is always nice to see people get baptized and follow christ. so that will be awesome. but another really cool thing that happened this week was that Elder Bednar came and spoke to our misison, it was a really awesome experiece, it was up in logan so it was quite a drive, and the drive up was really funny too. this old guy named Brother Foote took us up in his little truck, and it is one of those trucks that only has 3 seats, so we crammed ourselves in there and then we didnt' take the normal way up to logan, we took this way called Avon pass, and how you get up there is that you go through weber canyon and then you go through huntsville and then you get on avon pass, and avon pass is pretty much a dirt road covered in rocks, so it was really interesting and we were pretty much off-roading for about 40 minutes and then you end up in cache valley and then we were in logan, and it was a really fun bumpy ride, we actually caught air a couple of times!! but anyways about Elder Bednar.
So Elder Bednar, and his wife came and spoke to us and also the Presiding Bishop, Bishop Burton and his wife was there and 3 70's. it was Elder Yamashita, Elder Callister and this other person and their wives who i couldn't remember. at the beginning Elder Bednar told us to put our notebooks away, because he said that we shouldn't take notes on what people say but what the feelings of the holy ghost you have. he said that people often time take notes on what general authorities say and that we write them down and then time passes on and then they become useless to us. (which has happened to me a lot...) but they didn't give us written talks, they pretty much taught us on how to bear pure testimony, and what was interesting was that pure testimony is pretty simple, all you have to say is that you Believe in Jesus Christ. that is pure testimony and how when we tell random stories and prolong our pure testimony with random doctrine, it detracts from others and also the person bearing testimony, from feeling the Holy Ghost. He also explained to us about how we should be agents, not objects. and what he meant by that was for example when we pray we often pray for blessings upon our selves, which pretty much means we pray for blessings for us doing nothing. For example: Please bless me that my health will be good. that is an object person's prayer. but an agents person's prayer is, For example: Please bless me that as i eat healthy and exercise that my health will be good. and then you go and exercise and eat heatlhy and the lord will bless you. He told us that too many people in this world act as objects, they don't want to do anything and just receive blessings in their life for it. and he told us that god doesn't work like that, and how we are to be agents and go out and do something. he also explained to us how we are to use the holy ghost in our work and to carefully look for it in our daily lives. but also the other general authorities gave in their inputs in certain doctrine and it was an awesome mission conference.
Sadly enough that was the most interesting thing that happened this week, we did pick up 2 new investigators this week, and so we have started to teach them and the work is going really well here in layton. thank you for the birthday wishes, we are going to take a quick run to the liquor store to get some booz!!! whoo hoo 21!!!!!! ahah just kidding.
Love
Elder Miller
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