Conference week

How was everyones confrence, I thought it was great I noticed how much they were emphasizing on avoiding the devil and how the devil knows us so well and knows how to tempt us. I forgot my notes but I really liked the talk by Peter M Johnson from what I understood because it was in spanish haha. But I actually understood a lot more than I thought. But I really like the 4 points he had for us to avoid temptation. 1 Love god and thy neighbor. Keep the commandments, we were teaching a family this week the same family that went to church with us last week, and this girl was like how come my family has all these problems with drugs and was litterally naming the commandments, and we shared how the commandments are trully a blessing in our life because sometimes they seem restricting and keep us from having happiness but they do give us joy that last forever and not temporal happiness. 2 Pray daily with real intent countless times we pray everyday and I remember things that I ask for in my prayers and see them all the time throughout the day. One time I prayed for someone to listen to our words and know that their true. Last week we were contacting in the streets and everyone was rejecting us but the last house the guy wanted to listen. We ended up teaching him and committing him to baptism the next week. We asked him why he was so eager to be baptised and he said because when you were speaking I could feel the truth of your words. 3 Put away distractions and read your scriptures everyday. Not half hearted because reading the scriptures half hearted it does us no good, Before my mission I would read my scriptures but definetely got distracted all the time by a text message or a notification, this really stuck out to me because I don´t have distractions out here and I have learned so much from the scriptures that I haven´t noticed before. 4 Talking the sacrament with your savior and purpose in mind. Right before I started my mission I really focused on this listening to the words of the prayer, and after thinking of the sacrament song or a song about jesus and you can really feel the spirit when you do this, and understand the importance of the sacrament. I was reading my scriptures right before confrence in helaman 5 12 It is talking about we need to build a foundation in christ and when we do that we can´t be tempted by the devil. These for things are how we can build our testimony in christ putting away distractions setting a time away from distractions to learn about the savior everyday. If we will do this we will truly see blessing in our life, I have kind of been forced to do this because I don´t really have distractions out here haha but I have truly been blessed to learn so much more about the gospel and that has helped me so much. Also I have been learning spanish so fast it is insane I have never learned anything this fast before and it truly is because when we put the lord first in our lives we receive so many blessings a stronger testimony and blessing in our life. 


Love Elder Jones 
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