Exchanges

Hey all, this week was a good one. We drove down to Fredericksburg on Tuesday for District Leader training and exchanges. It was awesome we had exchanges with the YSA elders, they are over Univeristy of Mary Washington, so we spent the day contacting on campus which is by far my favorite form of contacting. We gave out like 6 BOMs in just a few hours and had a lot of good conversations. College kids these days are all obsessed with being "tolerant" and loving and accepting everyone and blah blah blah, but I find that extremely ironic because we were the laughing stock of the campus Haha. And I was only there for a few hours. Many many "nice" comments about us, as well as countless times I caught people taking snapchats of us or whatever. So yeah that's pretty funny to me.

Wednesday we had Zone conference and we talked about finding, through members and out own efforts. President Smith talked about how we need to be converted. He's a pretty tough love guy so that was a fun time Haha.

Thursday, Friday not too much happened but Saturday/ Sunday we had stake conference once again in Fredericksburg Overall, the Stake Conference was pretty good. President Smith gave a talk about how he had to deny a man the chance to be baptized. The reason was because this man was from an Islamic country and was previously Muslim himself. Even though he had gained a testimony of Jesus Christ and a desire to be baptized he still was not permitted the opportunity to be baptized. It was clarified between the two of them that if he had returned back to his home country(which is what he was planning on doing)he would be killed for it. For being Christian, and specifically a member of our church. This man was willing to die for what he believed in... for our Savior, and told President Smith he wanted to be baptized anyway, knowing the consequences. (Church policy won't allow Him to) President remarked how he was blown away the amount of faith this man had in Christ and His Atonement. Then President posed a question towards the audience. Most people, like this man, would probably be willing to die for their Savior. But could they live for their Savior? By way of explanation, could they go on living the proper way? Keeping his commandments, reading, praying, serving, fasting, going to church...etc. It made me sit back and reflect on if I could do that as well. My response is yes, yes I will continue to live for the Savior. Time will tell how well I keep those promises, and I'm committed to do my absolute best. I would ask that you all consider the same thing and ponder about it. I love you all thanks or all your support and for everything!

Exchanges and UMW