Week 18~General Conference

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April 2, 2012

Hello!

This week was pretty good.  Its just tough sometimes though because I feel like we never plan and think things out, so that's why I´m frustrated at times because we do so much more walking than necessary and waste precious time... at least that's what I think!  Oh well though, that's part of the job.  We were able to watch all 4 sessions of conference!  So that was awesome!  We couldn´t watch priesthood though because it was after 9 o clock, but thank you for the outlines so I can read about the priesthood session.  That would  be awesome if you could send the Ensign next month so I can have it in English.  Oh yeah, they had an english room for us as well so I got some really good notes.  I liked pretty much all of the talks...  I liked the one by the guy in the 70 about priesthood, I think on Sunday afternoon.  Also its always awesome to hear Eyring and Uchtdorf and our prophet Thomas S. Monson.  It was a easy weekend of just conference.  Yeah, I saw Landon for a second but didn´t recognize David Archuleta, but that's cool. (Chandler's friend, Landon Clark sang in the missionary choir during General Conference).
We worked pretty well last week, but William (Lucas´brother) still hasn´t come back from his dad´s before his mission to baptize his brother.  Then we´re still working with Rawane.  Her whole family (2 brothers and her mom) came to conference yesterday morning-afternoon here.  They said they liked it alot.  There was also another one of our investigators there and she said that she could really feel the spirit, so yeah, we´re still working with them alot!
A few interesting things happened this week though too.  One day while out tracting, we were walking down the sidewalk and a lady and a man were cleaning their gutters.  I said hello to the lady and shook her hand, then I said hello to the man and went to shake his hand and he asked `você é americano?´and I said yes.  Then he said `eu não falo com americanos´... In english, "I don't speak to americans!"  How rude huh?  ha ha so yeah, that was interesting.  Then we saw a cat sneak up on a bird and pounce on it and eat it, so that was cool.  But things here are just normal.  Kind of a struggle at times, but oh well.  Like in alot of the talks, we just need to push through the tough times and rely on Christ because the winners of the `race´of life are those who endure to the end.
I am so grateful for all you do!  I hope I get the package this week after the leaders conference.  I hope you guys have a great week in Cali, and yeah send lots of pictures!  Have a great Easter and say hi to Alec, Jackson, and Pep and tell them I love them.  I love you guys and hope you have a fun and safe week.  Talk to you next week!

Love,
Elder Halpin