Dear loving family,
Hola! Happy Monday! I love you all so much. Thank you for your kind emails. I miss you all so much especially during this special time of Christmas.
Things are going great here! My companion and I are really hoping to not get changed. They aren't going to tell us until Tuesday night!
Last Friday we had a special lesson at the Stake President's house with his family and with Bro and Sis Reyes. It was very spiritual. We watched a video about baptism and how its related to a baby in the womb. The baby is in a sack of water, is given life when the spirit enters, and is cleaned by the blood running through the body. When we are older and are baptised we also must enter the water, receive the Holy Ghost, and be cleansed by the blood of Christ. At the end of the video it asked a very special question. Jesus Christ has done His part so that we can make it back to Heavenly Father, have we done ours? It's a great question that I believe we should think about everyday. Sadly the Reyes family was out of town on Sunday so they didn't make it to the Stake Conference.
On Saturday in the afternoon we had the Stake priesthood meeting. It was very good. All the Stake Presidency spoke, Pres. Klein, and the Tegucigalpa Temple President! It was a very good meeting. Pres. Klein said that the diference between a young man and a man is that the man is worried about helping others more than himself. Pres. Ocampo (temple president) said that the Temple is prepared for us are we prepared for the Temple? Almost everything was focused on going to find and bring back the less active members. There are around 2000 actives and 3000 less actives here in the Ceiba. Lots of work to do. :) All the talks were great.
On Sunday morning we had the Stake general meeting. It was great as well! Sunday night we watched the Christmas devotional in our Chapel. It was so good! I especially loved the music. After the devotional 4 men were ordained to the office of Elder and recieved the Mechizedek priesthood. David was one of them! Wahoooo! I am filled with joy thinking about how far David has come from when we first met him 4 months ago. He is filled with energy and is spreading the gospel. It makes me so happy.
One night at our house we were eating spaghetti that Pres Selayas' wife gave us. I had a pop tart also so I decided to try what elf did and crumble some pop tart on my spaghetti. haha (random fun fact of the week) It was good.
Today in the morning the other Elders came running back to our house with a young man named Kevin who was holding a big iguana. I guess they went with Kevin and caught it! Today they are going to eat it for lunch. They are hilarious.
I should be able to write a bit more on Wednesday. I will have to respond to your individual emails on Wednesday because I ran out of time. I love you all so much! Keep praying for opportunities to give service each day. I know that as you and I serve our lives will be filled with happiness. Remember that our Heavenly Father always loves us. I know that Jesus Christ lives and that we belong to His Church. Thanks for everything!
Love Elder Conover
P.S, We have permission to put pictures on Flickr so that is where I am putting all my pictures. Just look for Eric Conover. I love you! You could try flickr also Mom, if you want!
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