Season 2 Episode 6 - “Conferência Geral” (General Conference) [BEST HOLIDAY OF THE YEAR]

Beautiful Views

September 30, 2019
thru October 6, 2019 

P-day: Since we live in the same house as two other Sisters here in our area, we decided that we should go on a hike to the beach. It was such a fun and pretty hike!! It was awesome because it reminded me of Utah a bunch!! Well it reminded me of Utah the entire time we were walking up until we ended up at the beach. Then we basically spent the whole day on the beach enjoying a fun break to enjoy p-day. When we were finished, we took the bus to the “Lan House” which is where we have access to the computers and can talk to our families!! Once we had finished talking to our families for the week, we went back and were able to talk to the lady that had contacted us about a week earlier. Her name is Jamiley and it turns out that the missionaries had been teaching for about a year, but the other Sisters had not passed her name to us, so we had no idea about her until she stopped and talked to us. We shared a quick message with her, and we set up another meeting with her for next week to teach her and her husband.

Tuesday: One of the highlights of today was that we went and visited who we had only clapped at his door before we went ant taught him. We got to his house and he told us that he was a little busy but that we could talk to him at the door. When we were leaving, after sharing a short message with him, he apologized for not letting us in but next time we will be able to share a message with him! He is cool; his name is Marcelo he was asking us a whole bunch of questions about being a missionary. My companion and I left his house and we were so excited!! We even started talking about how cool it would be to see him go on a mission later!!

Wednesday: Not going to lie today was a pretty rough one, we passed by everyone’s house and no one that we had planned on visiting was home when we stopped by. We then decided to call a bunch of the contacts that were still in our phone from the missionaries before us, nobody we talked to was really interested either. But then we stopped by the American Family’s house and they had just finished making some banana bread!! They shared some of the bread with us and it was definitely the highlight of the day! And left us feeling much better after a rough day with not much going well for us.

Thursday: We visited a family from the ward which was fun, the dad and mom served a mission in Portugal, so she started to show us a bunch of pictures from their mission. Then that night we visited Andiara, who is progressing well in learning more about the gospel and growing her own testimony. My companion noticed that she had put the Restoration pamphlet up on her wall. We decided to teach her a little bit more about Joseph Smith and invited her to come and watch General Conference with us.  We were excited that she told us that she would love to come!!

Friday: We visited a few fewer active members and some recent converts. It was a good day and we were able to invite all the people that we saw and taught to come and watch General Conference on Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday: We spent almost the entire day at the church watching General Conference!!! IN ENGLISH!!! It was super exciting to hear the speakers and to see them on screen and know that everything they were teaching us is true!!

Selfie Sunday - Watching Conference

Sunday: We watched the Women’s Conference session this morning with some of our ward members right before lunch, it was all in Português. It was fun to hear all about the new temples that were announced as well as the new Young Women’s Theme they released. Then we went to the church building to watch the next session in English and I just loved every minute of that session. It was almost time to start the last session, so I called Andiara and she said that we did not need to pass by her house to pick her up. Which I thought just meant that she was not going to be coming to conference at all. But she came!! She even brought her baby too!! Her baby was a little energetic, but the evening session was so good and focused a bunch on the Book of Mormon and the Restoration of the gospel. They covered these topics enough that she leaned over to me and asked us for a copy of The Book of Mormon. It was so cool!!! I really enjoyed all of general conference!! Everything that the Prophet and the Apostles said was exactly what I needed to hear, and what the world needed to hear in order to prepare the people to come closer to Christ in the last days.

My favorite parts of conference: I really really loved all of the talks. I loved Elder Uchtdorf’s talk, as always, I loved the end when he was saying “please come join with us, you will discover about yourself, God and the gospel!”  His talk was really inspiring to me, I also loved Elder Gong’s talk when he said, “We may lose faith in God, but he never loses faith in us.” There was also a bunch from Radband’s talk that was about honoring and keeping our covenants. Elder Budge was talking about how we need to trust in the lord more. He used a cute example of his grandson, that said “I don’t feel safe, but I am” I loved that because sometimes we feel that same way, we are put into situations that are not going to be easy (like a mission speaking Portuguese) but, we know that Christ is always with us, always. We just have to have our faith and confidence in Him. and to remember what the lord has said (I have prepared a way for you) Gods plans are not always our plans. I loved the talk from Elder Alliaud, I loved his conversion story! Especially that he focused on how The Book of Mormon really is truly powerful!

American Brownies are the BEST even in a BUNDT PAN

But if I had more time, I would tell you about every talk that was given and my favorite part from each one of them. Luckily you don’t have to just trust my word for it, you all have access to all the talks that were given in this conference and can have your own favorite parts stand out to you.

XOXO – Sister Sanovich