I don't remeber if I said this last week but we had a zone conference in Petrolina, which is the only city outside of the state that takes part of our mission. We had some training and talks given by leaders and the mission president and his wife. One talk that I liked from this conference was the 1% differences that seem insignificant actually add up in the end. It went along with the "line upon line, precept upon precept" where the small changes will help us. It was given in context of health and the small changes to our habits that will increase out health overall but the principal can be applied to anything we do. For example, If I'm not doing excercises and I decide just to do 10 pushups everyday it seems like nothing, but if executed it makes a difference because you are actually doing something other than sitting around thinking I don't want to do a big workout routine, but 10 pushups I can do; setting 1% goals will help us to start big changes. And during the zone conferences they always announce birthdays and from my zone I was the only person with a birthday, so everyone sang to only me...😂I also got M&Ms. As far as general conference, I got to watch saturday afternoon and both of the sunday sessions, I didn't get to watch preisthood because, just as all sessions, they are broadcasted live and in this time zone would start the conference at 9pm and go until 11pm, so it didn't work out with the missionary schedule, but I was informed that some did go to the session. president didn't give any counsel to this subject. We also had interviews with president but because my area is far and is a branch still president travelled to us to do the interview and to converse with president of the branch. It went well, he also went visited our apartment to see how it is and he saw the big hole in the ceiling with sweage dripping down into the shower so now I think something will happen to terms to reforming the house a little. President also talked about the upcoming tansfer and said that our companionship will probably stay the way it is.
Inways of news, thats most of it. I was way suprised how well I understood general conference in portuguese in ways of progress from the last conference when I understood almost nothing but I was happy to see the improvement.
Tchau, Love you
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Elder Benjamin Barton
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