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Hello World, I hope you are all doing well and still pushing along.

I think one of the biggest things of this week was Stake Conference. The Garden City Kansas Stake had their Stake Conference this week. It was a really insightful experience for me, pondering about past Stake Conferences of my life. There was a visiting authority, it was Bishop Cosey of the presiding Bishopric. He is from France and is really cool. He shared experiences about his family coming into the church and how the missionaries would spend long lessons into the late hours of the night (here he interjected, that's not true anymore, missionaries don't do that) being super bold with his parents to be baptized. When his parents were baptized (they were baptized in a collapsable pool in the missionaries apartment to which he then interjected again that's not true anymore missionaries, don't do that :) ) they had to be bold because they were some of the first members of the church in Bordeaux. He talked about how we (everyone not just missionaries) need to be bold. Not in an arrogant way but in a charitable way. Earlier in the meetings Sister Bell had talked about Tenacity. Which Bishop Cosey brought into his talk. He talked about how we need to be tenacious and stubbornly hold on (sound like enduring the to end to anyone?).

So I was thinking about stubbornly holding on and enduring to the end. I think it was appropriate for the week because we worked finding a lot of less active members who haven't been seen or heard for years and who many members in the branch don't even know who they are. A couple experiences with people we have found this week.

1: Sister Arollo. We found an address for Sister Arollo earlier this month and went to go see if she lived there. The people lived where she had previously had bought that house from her. However they knew where she lived and they pointed us to the direction. We then proceeded to try almost every house on that street being somewhat unsuccessful. Finally this week we knocked another house on that street pretty sure we had found where it was. An older lady answered the door and said that Sister Arollo didn't live there but Sister Arollo's sister in the back heard us and was like yeah she lives here she'll be back at this time. Well we came back and talked to SIster Arollo and it turns out that the older lady that answered the door is her mother and is very catholic, but that doesn't mean that we can't go back and talk to Sister Arollo when her mother isn't around, so we plan on going back later this week.

2 Brother Leech. We found brother Leech yesterday in which he first told us he was not interested in talking to us. We talked a little more learning some more of his story (he had ran into anti-mormon material in the past) and then his wife angrily knocked on the front door until he came in because "she does not like the church".

I think the word stubborn is important because I feel like enduring to the end you have to stubbornly hold onto the gospel ignoring the anti material that is going to be thrown at you and the lack of family support. That's my little spill for the week.

Love you all

Be Good, Live Well

Elder Waldron