Hellos!!!!

Wow, WAY too much going on here this week! It’s been nuts. I’m sure you all know and have heard about the earthquakes going on.  First off, we didn’t feel the earthquake, we were coming to our house at 9:30 and there was a guy in a car going around warning everyone about it and that we might have to evacuate for the tsunami. For about 40 minutes we didn’t have contact with anyone. With the warning of tsunami, our cell phones were the first thing to go and we had zero contact for that time. When we finally did get in touch with our district leader we were informed that we didn’t have to leave our area and the next day we found out that the tsunami was about a 7 foot wave.  They made a lot more noise over it than needed. But it was a good experience because the whole mission learned a lot about what we need to do in an emergency. The ward members were trying to call us and inform us of what was going on, so don’t worry we were receiving help. The thing that they are saying is that this is nothing compared to what is coming. There was the earthquake of 8.3 and then right after one of 7.8, they are expecting one to be around 9 point something. If it gets that big, we will be affected by the earthquake and possibly the tsunami, but where our house is here it won’t get to us so we are safe. 

On Thursday we had zone conference with President!! It was AMAZING. Everything I needed to hear, they talked about. They didn’t do the zone conference big like they usually do, it was our small zone of 14 missionaries and so we had to talk a lot. We ended reading the book of Mormon for the first time this year (in three months) and it was incredible. I really have felt the love for my Savior grow even more. I have been so anxious to start again the book of Mormon for the second time this year. When I finish my mission i´ll have read the book of Mormon 3 times in Spanish and I have learned more in that time than in my whole life reading the book of Mormon. This time we are reading and marking for the following things: 1. prayer  2. all names of Christ and God  3. all the times that God or Christ talk to the people.  4. obedience  5. all references to satan (murmurings, murdering, disobedience, anger, hatred, etc). We just recently starting and are now at about 1 Nephi 9 and I have learned soooo much. I cannot believe how many times satan is in the scriptures. Not because he is something great to learn about, but President wants us to know and be able to realize the attacks and temptations of satan. I’m really excited to read the whole book of Mormon and get the power to know how satan thinks and acts to be able to make even better choices in my life. I invite you all to do the same.  President talked a lot about the earthquake and we were to do practices of what to do. The next morning there was an earthquake about 6:55 AM and it was just little, but our district leader called us to make sure we were ok and was practicing what he needs to do as a district leader in case of an emergency. So I felt safe to know he will be my district leader until I finish my mission.

As for conference, WOW!! I hope you all loved conference as much as I did!!! So incredible, I honestly love conference. President Monson, loved his talk. I loved what President Packer said. His was more of a testimony than a talk but it was incredible. I have such a love for President Packer and what I wouldn’t give to have even a little sliver of his knowledge. He knows so much. I also really loved the talk about Joseph Smith from Elder Corbridge. That he is either a prophet or a pretender, the church is true (all of it) or it’s not. There is no in-between. Everything is either all true or all wrong. LOVED that. I’m going to use that with my investigators. As for them... none of them came to church. We went looking for them and there was a lot of things that they had going on that they couldn’t come or they just didn’t want to, I’m not sure. We have found 6 new people to teach this week. They are great and really are miracles of how and when we found them. Such an amazing time to be a missionary. I can’t believe how fast the time goes by. I feel such an urgency to be prepared for the second coming. Everyone of the prophets said something even a little word or story of the second coming. Please be preparing for that day and remember the words of the prophets. Remember what President Monson said, We MUST study and re-read the words of conference. They are there for our understanding and study. 

I love you all my family. I hope you all have a great day!!! Do whats right, always and you will be happy :)

Love,

Hermana Tycksen