It's a bugs life

This week was a good week. On Wednesday we got to go to Santa Ana for the Welcome Meeting for President Spjut and Sister Spjut (Spyut is how it is pronounced). We got to know them a little bit and to learn a little bit from what they learned at the New Mission President Seminar that they had. In that seminar all of the twelve apostles speak with them. We learned some cool stuff from that. On Friday my companion and I went back to Santa Ana for the Leaders Meeting. It was my first and the first of President Spjut as well. He was kind of nervous but it was really good. We talked about some changes that we are going to make in the mission that were taught by the apostles. 1. We are going to start teaching Lesson 5 of Preach My Gospel before and after baptism 2. We are going to start focusing more on D&C 20:37 (The requirements for baptism) 3. We are going to be in charge of teaching all of the lessons again after baptism and 4. We are going to visit the converts constantly for 3-4 months after baptism and teaching them and keep dropping by for a year to teach. All of these changes have to do with conversion and retention. We have to focus more on getting the people to the temple and not just to baptism. It's very important that they go to the temple. In the talk "Your four minutes" in General Conference by Gary Stevensonhttps://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/your-four-minutes?lang=eng he talks about something that Elder Bednar did to help his family members recieve  the essential ordinances. It's a good talk you all should read it and then think about people you know that need those essential ordinances and help them.

This week Elder Sánchez, Elder Leiva (an Elder that lives in my house) and I got sick. We all had diarrhea and I threw up in the night on friday night. We all went and took tests and turns out we all have parasites. I have E. Coli. Don't worry though because I've got pills and it's going away I feel much better. We didnt work on Saturday or on Sunday. We went to church though. I feel almost normal. It just one of those things you know?

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Well have a great week!

-Elder Rowberry