General Conference

Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010


Family!

I have realized I am not very good about responding to emails. I email every week, but sometimes I forget to answer the questions or things you tell me. They always mean a lot to me and in the excitement to tell you what's happening here I forget to respond specifically to you. So I will try to be better at that. Before I forget, starting next week my email will be one day earlier, on Monday instead of Tuesday. So feel free to write before Monday. :) Chris, thanks for sending an email for mom. And Mom thanks for sending your other ones. Thanks for getting all the school stuff taken care of. I appreciate that. And I am glad that you were able to share with the Rexburg Sister Missionaries the thoughts my mission president shared with us. It has continued to do me a lot of good. Being in control of our thoughts is a wonderful thing. Also, I was looking forward to reading Mynoa´s email about the Savior, but I never received it. I am sure it was wonderful.

Speaking of wonderful, General Conference was wonderful. I haven´t been able to see the last session yet, we´ll see it next week in church, but all the others were very good. I guess no one has any doubt now on how important the family is. It helped me to realize the importance of motherhood and father hood. I forget who said it, but that we will all be released from all other callings and assignments expect for that of father and mother. I thought that was so powerful. The family is the most important thing. And everything else is there to simply help the family. I took a lot of notes. Before the session started I wrote down some questions I had and was amazed at how quickly they were answered, in pretty much every talk. I am grateful for truth and personal revelation, and for those who are willing to dedicate their lives to serve God and fellow man. It was so inspiring.

This week we have been able to find a lot more contacts, maybe because the weather is warming up. We are still trying to get them to turn into new investigators. We have a new Chinese investigator, Ji. It is so interesting teaching Chinese people. They have no concept of who God is or who He could be. Whatever you tell them about God they accept because they have no misconceptions in their mind, except for the fact that He may or may not exist. In Germany religion is a requirement in school and everyone knows about God and Christiandom. And so it can be hard for them to understand the truth about God, that he is literally our Father in Heaven with a body. It just makes sense for Chinese people. Interesting. Along with teaching Chinese people comes eating with them too. I have had some pretty exciting food lately. The most recent was cuttle fish. It looks like a baby octopus with tentacles and everything. It was really good though, which was kind of surprising. It made me think of Sean and Ric serving in Taiwan. As I was eating it, Hao, the one who had given it to us, was just laughing. He said we would starve if we took that long to "research" it in China. It was funny.

Well that is it for this week family. I love you so much and hope that God is continuing to bless you in your lives. I know He will as we continue to search for Him more and more in our lives.

Until next Monday!

Love,
Sister Fitzgerald