HEy EVERYBODY :-D HOWZit GOinG!? :-D
Hey guys, how´re things? :-) How is life in utah or as the members here call it ´´The Missionary Factory´´. :-D I hope that all is going well :-)
How was conference? :-D I thought it was great :-D I loved Elder Scott´s talk :-D Elder Nelson´s talk was really cool too :-D I loved what Pres Eyring said, ´´There was jimmy, he went to prison, and there was petey across the street, he went to prison too. . . It was a tough neighborhood´´ :-D as well as Pres Monson ´´If you haven´t read the Book or Mormon, Read it. I´ll not have a show of hands´´ :-D It seemed that half the talks were about marriage. I´m glad that I´m a missionary cuz I don´t have to deal with prophetic pressure to get married :-D Missionary Safeguard :-D I thought that it was a really good conference. Bishop Burton´s talk was great as well. When you guys get the ensign, make sure to send me one :-D (HEY short note, Conference is already online, go check it out :-D )
So things are going good here in Gorbea. This last week we spent a lot of time looking and FINDING people to teach so that was good :-D This week we should have a lot of lessons. Missionary work is a lot more fun with people :-D Two people that we found had had a family member and a friend die. They were both very nice and polite with us and they both needed a little bit of comfort for their recent loss. We´re hoping to give them the answers that they need this upcoming week :-) A question for you Mom and Dad, what did you two liked to teach the people you found who had had friends or family die recently? The plan of salvation of course but scriptures you liked to use and things you liked to say is what I´m asking about. Whatever you´ve got will be very much appreciated. :-D
Something that I´ve learned on the mission, unfortunately I feel because of the circumstances that brought me to the realization, is a person is who he is and does what he really wants to do when nobody cares or nobody is watching. It is very easy to sleep in when your comp does. It is very easy to stay on the internet for too long when your comp does. It is very to go home early when your comp is ´´done´´ for the day. These are only examples, there are others, but they show who you really are and what you really want to do through your choices. Elder Gonzalez told me yesterday that he hadn´t felt the same as he had when he begun his mission and he didn´t like that. I was going to say ´´ . . .Maybe you should pray more or something´´ but he continued to say that maybe if he got up on time in the morning, did exercises and his studies as well, maybe he´d get back his ´´newbie spirit´´. I said that was an excellant idea (I had been hoping to bring this up somehow) BUT . . . then he said that he didn´t want to do any of that and that he doesn´t like to do things that he don´t pleasure him (along the lines anyway). I waited for a sec ad then said, rather straightforwardly I thought, that a person will do what is necessary to get what he wants and if he doesn´t do the things that are necessary to get what he wants then he didn´t really want it to begin with. I ´´wanted´´ to learn spanish before the mission and did little to nothing to achieve that goal. Only when I needed spanish to survive did I learn. So the question is(are) who are you when no one expects anything of you? What do you do when no one is watching? What do you really want? When you can answer these questions and be content(I would hope happy as well) then you´re doing fine. If not, get better :-D
Well thats it for me. Thanks for everything everyone (The package hasn´t come yet but I´ll let you know when it does). Until the next Mom Dad Sam Meri Grace Sophie and Dani, I love you all and Be HappY :-D
Sincerely
Elder Jamie McConnell

Props to Elder Cook :-P I hope he finds comfort in knowing that he did what he felt in his heart to be right :-D