General Conference and Transfer Calls

First things first. General Conference was awesome.

Tuesday- I had another exchange with Elder Coy. We did Spanish Work again. While we were in a lesson with a recent convert family, Elder Coy kept talking to me in Spanish, then there would be long pauses, then he would realize that I no hablo haha. 

Wednesday- We taught the first lesson to Jermaine and he accepted to be baptized!!! That's our first baptismal date in our companionship. He was really excited. We also had a great lesson with Paul and Susan. Their friend had recently passed away. Their hearts were a little more open to our message this time. 

Thursday- We went to see Paul and Susan again. We just chatted a little bit and then talked about FamilySearch.org. They want to come to the family history center next time we meet.

Friday- We met with a new investigator named David. We weren't able to teach him a whole lot, as he had a lot of experiences that he wanted to share, but it was still a super powerful lesson.

Saturday- What else was there to do. It was General Conference. I really liked Elder Robbins talk in the Morning session about "Which Way do You Face?" He talked about courage and the call to "Fear No Man," which was our topic at Zone Conference a couple weeks previous. I also liked President Uchtdorf's talk in the Priesthood Session about asking ourselves "Lord, Is it I?" That really hit home for me. We were at the church pretty much all day.

Sunday- Jermaine came to a session of Conference, and he really liked it. I liked how many of the speakers in the morning session talked about following the counsel of the Prophet and other church leaders, and then the Prophet's talk was about following Jesus Christ. It all just meshed together. When we follow his Prophet, we are following Christ. We got to watch the afternoon session in a member's home, which was sweet. The spirit was so present in their home. We got transfer calls after conference was over, and...Elder Zonts and I are staying. I was really surprised cause most of the time, President allows new missionaries to stay in their first areas for 3 months, then tranfer them. This will be my 4th tranfer here.

Things are great. Elder Zonts and I are excited to stay together for another transfer. It will be a longer transfer, cause this last transfer was so shorter. That's the week. It was a super good week. I Love You All. I invite all of you to take the counsel that we received at conference and apply in your individual lives.

With Love,

Elder Dumont

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There were like 6 of these military choppers flying overhead while we were trying to teach a lesson. The airports about a half mile away.

 

Sometimes you sit on a park bench, looking over a lake, and you think to yourself, "If I were a cow, I would go cannibal and eat all of my cow friends...munch munch. And then the cow police force would try to take me to cow prison, but I would just eat them too. My hunger cannot be contained!!!!!" These are the literal thoughts that go though my head. Um...yeah moving on. 

When I awoke from my nap, I found these on my camera...I was tired ok.