Cinco De Mayo

Feliz cinco de mayo!!!

 

Sounds like your week was fairly normal. A lot of soccer so that's always fun. :) This week went pretty well I guess. I learned how to juggle!! Haha it took about 20 minutes and now I do it all the time. :P haha it was fun. We didn't end up moving yet. We don't know when it will happen. We should find out today. (found out, yes moving today, don’t know new address)

 

The zone Pday went well. We just played different games and kind of hung out. It was nice. :) it was super hot though and we had to wear jeans. We will be skyping sometime after 2. We will get out of church at 1 and have lunch then come back and Skype. I'm honestly not sure, but around then. Are you guys free then? That is like 12 your time. We will just Skype from the iPad here at the church so that will be nice. :) 

 

So, spiritual experience for this week is going to cover a couple days. Saturday we had the cultural celebration for the temple and then on Sunday we had the dedication as well as a CES fireside. It was an overload of apostles outside of general conference! Haha it was awesome though! So the cultural celebration was pretty cool. All the youth in the temple district got to participate. There were youth from our ward in it. It was cool. Parts were kind of cheesy, but it was kind of cool. But the end was the coolest part! There was a slideshow of a ton of pictures that people had sent in of them at a temple and they took all of these pictures and made a huge picture of Jesus Christ! It looked super awesome!! And then, of course, the dedication was amazing! We went to the first session so we saw the corner stone ceremony. It was cool. President Walker wasn't there though. But president Uchtdorf and Elder Christopherson were there. Everyone was super excited to finally have a temple in south Florida. :) I really miss the temple and so it was nice to be able to see the dedication and feel the spirit of it even though we can't go there. And then, the CES fireside was really good too. Elder Ballard spoke to the YSA all about technology. It was super awesome. One of the main things he focused on was that even though the apostles are old and people don't think they understand, they do understand. He went through and named off basically everything that people use to communicate. Text, FB, twitter, google +, snapchat, Instagram, Pinterest, Etc... It was cool. He taught about how they can be good, but also bad. He took a little different view on it though than we are used to. He focused a lot on how this technology is taking over and we don't have as much quiet time anymore. This is like what you said that Lisa shared. Technology is taking over and there really isn't much time for the quiet. So he challenged everyone to search for quiet time where we can really feel the spirit. I invite each of you to go on lds.org and watch it. It was really good. 

 

This week is going to be a little different. I will give you guys the scripture, but I am making you work. :) The scripture this week is Alma 36: 24. This is really focusing on conversion. We need to help other people come unto Christ right? But, what about ourselves? Are we truly converted? Do we have that joy in our lives? And if so, do we truly have a yearning to share it with others? Do we understand that they are our brothers and sisters and that we have what they need? Are we willing to put our doubts and fears aside to go out and share the gospel with the people in our lives? Or are we too scared of what their answer might be? I want you to answer these questions and read the scripture. 

 

I love you all!! I am so grateful for all of your support and help! Your Heavenly Father loves each of you more than you can imagine. Have a great week!!

 

Love,

Elder Moyes