Hey dad
Sounds like you should have an interesting year coming up in school. Too bad you wont be doing computers, but i guess you wont be a slave to all the other teachers who cant figure out that their printer has to be plugged in to work. lol
WEll this week was definately an interesting one. I LOVED the mission conference and the "revelatory session" we all had with Elder Bednar. He was amazing. His remarks and his attitude were real, better than anything i could have imagined. I am learning the importance of "real" life expereinces. I have spent the majority of my life in my own created daydream land. I am now realizing the importance of living life to its fullest, which means having real conversations with real people, and expereincing the realities of the world that surrounds us.
Elder Bednar focused a majority of his remarks on going after the one soul that is lost. He stated that Apostles are not sent to minister unto the whole, but instead are sent to minister to the needs of one. he shared an experience of how recently after he had been called he was sent to a stake and had a specific impression on how he was sent to help one man who had a drinking problem. I am learning the importance of helping the one lost sheep, of seeking, and doing everything i can to bring it back. I hope you can and are learning the same lessons with your new calling. search out that one lost sheep. That is what it is all about in the end. I know i am quoting someone when i say this, im just not sure who, but in the day of judgement, we wont be asked what callings we had, but instead we will be asked if we lifted the weary, strengthened the weak, fed the hungry and helped the needy.
I too look forward to coming home. It scares me to death, but i am confident the lessons i have learned here will positively impact me forever.
love you and thanks for all you do
ELder Kenck
PS, was it the Lake family that we saw when i was going through the temple for the first time? Arent they the ones that introduced us to the gospel? I cant remember.
Hi Mommy,
Para contestarte esas preguntas que me hiciste...
(funnny subject line... to bad i am in Alabama.. but only like .5 hour outside the Florida border... )
1. It was a hibachi experience... and they gave us sushi... it was a hibachi resturaunt owned by Mexicans, and they were impressed by our spanish and gave us some sushi... which was deep-fried and therefore the only reason why i liked it... lol
2. This week was a little tougher. We didnt have any investigators in church, although a few told us they would be there. And we didnt find too many new investigators.
3. Dont worry about it, i really liked the letter and the picture from liv, it broke a super long (well for me) mail drought.
4. WE have a sonic down the street, we dont eat out too much, but i would go there in a heart beat with a gift certificate... there are sonics everywhere in the south... EVERYWHERE.
5. I am ready, i have permission, i believe it is next monday, and i am pretty confident i know what classes i will be taking, and when i will be taking them.
6. Good.
Yeah it is a super small world sometimes.. and even more so in the church. And you'll be having a MM conference? Crazy. That should be fun, and i think the rest of us will have a blast!
Well this week was amazing! I probably will only talk about the Bednar expereince...
So we as a mission prepared for the conference by studying "seek learning by faith" (which has always been one of my favorite talks) and "ask in faith". We also had a mission wide fast. So we showed up to the conferencein pensacola (which started at 9) at 8, and on the way we thought we would be the first ones there... NOT we were basically the last ones there... WE go in, the whole mission was there, and the spanish zone stayed completely segregated because we dont know any of the other missionaries... lol, but when he showed up it was amazing. He made a point of explaining to us that he was human, and we were there to listen and learn from the spirit, NOT him. It was a real experience, something much better than anything that i had imagined. Basically the whole thing wasw focused on how us as missionaries have to help others take steps of faith and do faithful actions, because that is how they will progress. He was so fun, and so awesome, yet at the time he had a countenance that showed he really is an apostle. I really cant put into words how it was, but i think i will share one thing that impressed me greatly.
Elder R is a missionary that came out on the plane with me, and to describe him, well he is from the-middle-of-nowhere Idaho, and he is a little weird. But when he came out he had a very bright and cheery countenance. This last transfer i saw him and was shocked, because that cheery and bright countenance has been replaced by a sad countenance. I guess he has had a tough mission filled with tough companions, and that bothers me, because even though he isa little weird, he doesnt deserve to be treated badly. Well at the conference, i saw him again, with the same countenance, and during the "revelatory session" (coined such by Bednar) he commented on something he learned from the talk "Seek learning by faith". Elder Bednar spent the next 30-40 seconds of his time praising Elder R for his comment and telling him how wise that was for a 20 year old and such. To be perfectly honest, the comment was good, but not good enough to merit the praise it was given. I am confident that in the moment, Elder Bednar was impressed to compliment him, to make him feel worth something. That was so iimpressive to me. THat is the role of an apostle, to do what Jesus would, and Jesus would seek those who were burdened, just like this wonderful elder.
By the end of the conference i was so impressed. I know he is an apostle, and i know that these apostles have an angelic assignment here on earth. I know we too must search out the lost, and burdened, and we must help them on their way home.
I love you mommy, thanks for all you do for me
have a wonderful week
ELder Kenck
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