well sounds like things are pretty good! that´s cool that karen and rhett are coming, i imagine their kids are super big now too so that´ll be a shock the next time i see them. i´m sure all the adults will be the same, but the kids are gonna be completely new people! i´m pumped for lyce too, i´m sure she´s probably huge by now too haha. that is a cool experience from chip. we actually had a visit from a general authority this week too which i will share a little more about later :) and tell karissa that she has to do every senior thing she can, cause she´ll never get to do it again. i look back and realize i could have had so much more fun as a senior. tell her just to absorb it all or else she´ll regret it. but does that mean he´s leaving before school is even out? that´s super weird. and that´s cool you guys got to go speak at the developmental center. i´ve been there a few times, and it is a cool place. definitely not the same sacrament meeting, but i always enjoyed it :)
so like i was saying this week we had a visit from a general authority, elder kevin r duncan came, i think he´s a 70? and like the area president or something like that? but we had a super cool meeting with him. we had to be there at about 8 30 in the morning and we didn´t leave til about 4, but i really liked it. he took some time at the beginning with just the district and zone leaders and talked about really "owning" your district and making sure you really know everyone. he shared some cool stats too, something like every 1 in 20 converts said that they had a spiritual experience with the book of mormon before getting baptized, and 90% of them stayed active. it made me think of my converts and it´s pretty true. the ones that have stayed the most active had that experience or one with the prophet. course i do have one that´s part of the other 10%, but he was just stressing the importance of the book of mormon and how it assures that they stay active. then he talked with everyone, and even though it was a meeting of like 7 hours it went by super fast. he shared things like teaching the blessings instead of the things we have to do, trying to create the perfect lesson, and then gave us three new "laws," that one, we can´t knock doors, and two, we can´t ask for references, and three, we can´t baptize, or we can´t perform the baptism. they sounded a little crazy, but he explained and it made a lot of sense. it made me realize how many things i still have to work on haha. i know i´ve grown and learned a lot, but i´ve still got a long ways to go :)
we were also blessed to have a baptism on saturday, and it was super cool. we combined with the other zone so we had 10 that night, and it was awesome. there were tons of people there and everyone loved it. so we´ve been teaching marilyn, but her parents have been kinda against it all. she said she was sad cause she feels her family doesn´t support her in anything, so my comp really wanted that her parents went to the baptism. so he talked to her mother once, and she just straight up said she doesn´t like our religion, but that she would go. so sure enough her and her husband went, and ended up really liking it. they really liked the words that were shared, the hymns that were sung, and thanked us a lot because we helped out their daughter so much. so we´re pretty pumped for that cause we think that we´ll finally be able to talk with them and maybe help the whole family get baptized! marilyn just loved it too, she just kept saying how good she felt and how she couldn´t describe it and it was just awesome. she´s super loved in the ward too, so she´s super solid :)
we had a super good day yesterday too. it was ward conference so a ton of people came, even a lot of less actives with a few investigators. it was a good meeting, and we talked with a few members after and they said how much they liked it cause there was just a different feeling during the whole block and they liked it. it was true though, everyone was just happy, and we went and saw a few of the people that came and they seem pretty positive too. but then we had a kind of weird experience. so a less active guy came, and he was saying how he wants to change his life and come back to the church, and he asked us to give him a blessing. so we did that, and it was a super good blessing, he started crying after and it was awesome. but then he wanted us to come and bless his house in the afternoon. so we went, and he just really wanted us to bless his house so we just did it. i was the one that did it, and for whatever reason, right as i started praying i just started sweating profusely. it was weird though cause it really wasn´t hot at all, but i didn´t think anything of it. right as i stopped praying though, i stopped sweating too, it was weird. we had 2 deacons with us too, and we started talking about it, and they said they both started sweating and the same thing happened, and that they felt like something was pushing them super hard from behind. i really don´t know what it was, but i´m leaning towards whatever evil spirit was there was mad that we were praying, and maybe a similar thing happened like the thing that happened to joseph smith when he prayed the first time and he said he felt something, a being from the unseen world, and so the spirit was mad, but we prayed and now the house is good. we´re going back in a few days so we´ll see how it turns out :)
but that´s about how my week went. we´re super pumped cause we had a baptism, and we should have more this weekend. we´re working hard, things are pretty good. thanks again for everything, i hope you have an awesome week!
much love,
elder paskett
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