From Elder Conover

March 16, 2015

Dear family,

Thank you for all of your emails. I am so glad to hear you are all doing so well. Things are going great here. Obviously there are always small challenges but an attitude of grattitude always helps. This wednesday there are transfers. We dont think we will be changed but who knows. The multi mission meeting was incredible! Elder Anderson, Bishop Davies, Elder Maynes, and Elder Ochoa were all there! It was very special. The focus of Elder Anderson's counsel was about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. That we personally try to understand better the Atonement and help others use the Atonement in their lives so that they have a change of heart. We shook their hands and Elder Anderson was walking in between the aisles. It was cool. Oh and we were on the first row! He asked what scriptures do we know in the BOM about the Atonement. I raised my hand and he came and stood right in front of me and I answered Alma 7. It was really special to be with him. I could feel the love he has for the Lord and for all people. He testified very powerfully of Christ and promised great blessings. 

We are teaching a man named Arturo. He told us he is waking up at 4 in the morning to read the Book of Mormon. He came to Church on Sunday and has a baptism date for the 28th of this month. We have seen him change greatly. It is so special to see the gospel change peoples lives. This last week we found a ton more new investigators. It was really good.

Today we played soccer in the morning and then made lunch with some members. It was a lot of fun. Thank you for everything! I love you all so much. 

Love Elder Conover

Hearing the Lord's servants

March 9, 2015

Hi family!

I am very short on time, sorry I can't write more. The conference with Elder Duncan was incredible. We learned so many things and this work is changing dramatically for the better. I felt the spirit so strong being with him on Wednesday. We also had a leadership meeting with him on Friday. He talked mostly about us needing to know our sheep. It was very good. In the meeting on Saturday we talked a lot about always having the vision and representing Jesus Christ always. We talked about working better with the members and much much more. It really was an eye opening meeting. This Saturday we have the multi mission meeting with Elder Anderson of the 12 Apostles. We are so excited to hear his words! Elder Guzman and I are doing good. We are trying to improve everyday and keep this work moving forward in our area and help the other missionaries in our zone. I love the gospel. I love reading the Book of Mormon everyday and learing new things. We gave talks on Sunday about the law of the fast. It was good! I learned a lot preparing the talk. I know Jesus Christ lives. I know with even more surety now than ever that He leads this Church through his chosen leaders. Have a great week!

Love Elder Conover

Onward ever onward!

March 2, 2015

Hello dear family! 

Thank you for all of your wonderful and supportive emails. Sadly today I am not going to have time to respond to each one of you individually because we had to take a Preach my Gospel test and I am running out of time to email. I love you all so much. I appreciate your love more than you can imagine. 

Everything is going great here! I will admit that some days are very frustrating. Sometimes it's hard to work as we should with the members but we are getting better! We are also running very low on sleep because of our calling. As you all very well know sleep is so important. :) I know that trials and temptations are part of the great test we are going through here on Earth. NEVER GIVING UP is so important. I know that through Jesus Christ we can overcome anything if we do our part. 

We are teaching a man named Arturo. He is a very good man and has great desires to know the truth. He came for the third time to church on Sunday! He also wants to go with the ward to the temple on the 13th! He still is waiting for an answer from our Heavenly Father to know if the Book of Mormon is true. 

We are also teaching a less active Mom named Sister Maldonado and her 10 yr old non member daughter Laura. Laura has a baptism goal for the 14th of this month. We are making sure that her mom is active before she is baptised. They are doing great reading the Book of Mormon and they are making great changes in their lives! It is awesome. 

We are also teaching 16 yr old Alberto. He is the brother of a recient convert. We still need to teach him a lot but he has come to church twice now. The goal is that he can be baptised this month. 

Finally we were able to have a lesson with Fanny's Dad. It was very spiritual. His name is Mario. He is taking his time and really analyzing everything. Fanny's parents have both noted the change in Fanny and her way of living. Her mom Rosa shared with us that before Fanny used to get angry when she was asked to do something but now that she is a member of the Church she volunteered to take her little brother to school without even being asked. That was really special to hear. We want so badly to help her parents follow her example and be baptised so that they can have an eternal family.

Please keep these people in your prayers. I love you all so much. I can't believe how time is flying. I hope that I can become more like Jesus Christ these months that I have left. Have the best week ever! Remember who is King! :)

Love Elder Conover

P.S I will send pictures next week of our adventures at the beach today! 

P.P.S This Wednesday we are having a conference with Elder Duncan from the area presidency! On the 14th Elder Anderson from the quorum of the 12 Apostles is coming to give a talk with us and the other mission! :) We are pumped! 

SPS Life

February 23, 2015

Hola familia! 

Thank you all for your support and prayers. Today we played some great soccer on a turf field with the zone. It was a lot of fun! Elder Guzman is quite the hilarious companion. We are having a good time.

We had a baptism service on Saturday. It went great! Many members came to support Jessica and Fanny. They were so prepared. I am truly amazed by their desire and dedication to follow Jesus Christ. They will be great members! I really love the Book of Mormon. We were crammed into and riding in one of the small buses called rapiditos and a man asked me if we were protestants. I told him what church we represent and immediately could explain to him about the BOM because I had it in my hand. He was very interested. He asked me after I told him ¨Jesus came here to the Americas?¨. It was a great experience. We had to quickly jump off the bus right in the middle of our conversation but I quickly told him I wanted to give him the book and handed it to him. I wish I could have gotten information to visit him but those buses are called rapiditos for a reason. haha I am reading an attribute of Jesus Christ out of PMG every night. I love this gospel. It truly is perfect. I know Jesus Christ lives and leads this Church. Have an awesome week family! I love you all so much. 

Happy late Valentines day

February 16, 2015

Hello family! 

Thank you for all your wonderful emails, videos and pictures. They are all so special! I love you all so much.

Happy late valentines day. I'm so happy to hear that you all had a great day. Apart from being sick today things have been going very well here. I feel like this blessing to be a leader is forming me and helping me become more of the person Heavenly Father wants me to be. A less active member named Gaby told us that she is ready to make her life right again and she told us she deeply desires to feel clean again. We told her that through repentance and then taking the sacrament again she can feel completely clean. She came to church the next day and had an interview with the bishop. She looks so happy! Her 10 yr old daughter also accepted a baptism date for the 14th of March. When ever we leave the house we each hold a copy of the BOM in our hand. President Klein has created a new vision for 2015. Always having a Book of Mormon in the hand is part of the plan. Giving out way more copies of the Book of Mormon is great. The BOM is such a powerful instrument in converting and strengthening ourselves and others. There are so many prophecies in the Book of Mormon about the coming forth of the BOM in our days as a sign before the second coming of Jesus Christ and the gathering of Israel. ( ch. heading 3 Nephi 29 and 3 nephi 21, 1 nephi ch. 13 etc.)  I feel greatly honored and pleased to be a part of these great prophecies. I am going to attach a copy of the vision for 2015 so you can see what we are doing. Mom should be able to translate it. :) 

Fanny and Jessica are doing good. They are both preparing to be baptised this Saturday. We met a man named Ignacio the other day. He is from Peru. He had many questions and is very interested in reading the Book of Mormon. I feel like he is going to progress. 

I love you all so much and hope that you have the best week ever! I know that Jesus Christ lives. I know that His Atonement is real and that through repentance we can change to be more like Him. I am so grateful to be able to express myself and talk with Heavenly Father through prayer. I am so grateful for the sacrament and the power it has if we take it worthily and with a desire to be better the following week. Thank you for your support and prayers. 

Love Elder Conover

The update

February 9, 2015

Dear loving family,

Ready for the news... yes I was transferred. It was sad to leave beautiful Ceiba and all the wonderful people there. Tuesday night we had a very spiritual lesson with the Reyes family and I have great hope for them. They will continue to progress. My greatest desire is that they will one day enter the Temple together as a family and be sealed for all eternity. Wednesday morning we took a bus to Progreso and from there to my area. Now we don't have change meetings. You are not going to believe who my new companion is. Elder Guzman! We always joked about being companions someday but now we really are! We are already teaching very unified because we know each other so good. We are working hard and having a great time! We are the zone leaders here in San Pedro Sula (zona Satelite). I love it here and am really enjoying being a missionary. Sometimes a profound feeling of joy and gratitude come over me. The transportation here is super crazy but fun. There are these small buses called rapiditos that we take quite a bit and we are always jumping from one bus to another when we have to go to other areas. I am very grateful to be with Elder Guzman because if I wasn't with someone who knew how this all works there is no way I would be able to make myself around. Now I don't have to just learn one area I need to learn the whole zone because we do interviews and go on divisions with all the other 30 missionaries in our zone. Tomorrow we have interviews with Pres. Klein. As he does the interviews we are going to be training one by one each companionship in our zone the vision of the mission. The work is being accelerated greatly here in centro america and in all the World. The leaders are putting great emphasis in auto sufficiency temporal and spiritual. It is awesome! The last zone leader here, Elder Lamb, is super great. I hope that I can keep the fire going. They found two investigators Fanny and Yesica that we are preparing for baptism on the 28th. Fanny is 17 and Yesica is 23. They are very prepared and have lots of stewardship from the Ward. We are very happy about that. We are also super happy with the missionaries in our zone. There were a total of 11 confirmations on Sunday! The house where we live is really cool also. There is a huge water font outside. I do my hair, brush my teeth, etc. all outside! It feels like camping! Where the font is it's always shady also. I love it! The members here are super nice. Almost every day we have diferent members who give us lunch and dinner. They are so kind. 

Thank you for all of your kind emails. I love hearing from each one of you. I love you so much and hope that every day our love for each other and Heavenly Father will continue to grow. I love this gospel. Becoming like Jesus Christ is our life goal. Keep enduring and loving the journey. 

Love Elder Conover

Transfer week!

February 2, 2015

Hey family!

This week we have transfers. Tomorrow we find out who leaves. Today we went to the beach with a box of pizza and banana pop and sat on the dock watching the waves. It was very relaxing. I don't have much to update. Sister Augilar (David's mom) came to Church on Sunday! That was great. I know that we belong to the true Church of Jesus Christ. This is His Church. I am so grateful for the blessing to be a part of His kingdom. Sometimes I feel it's too good to be true. I know that we must find all the elect from the four corners of the Earth and bring them Home with us. I love you all so much! Have another wonderful week. 

Love Elder Conover