Camron's letter.....April 2, 2012

Hola familia, What a fantastic conference! It went by so fast. It's hard to believe. It's truly incredible how special conference is when you really understand how much it is worth. My favorite talk by far was the one by President Eyring. He did an awesome job! I think the best one for the church was by President Uchtdorf when he told everyone that they need to stop judging and its easy, "just stop doing it" haha. Then when Elder Ballard talked about how he loves the GPS so he can tell his wife he knows where he's going and he doesn't have to ask anyone for directions haha. And then when he said "I can tell you how to drive because I'm your husband and I hold the preisthood." haha. That was great. But it truly flew by. It's funny how a lot of people say that conference is like Christmas for missionaries and I didn't notice it as much until this time. Before conference I played the anouncement to the last conference when it said, this is the 185th semi anual general conferance (the Morning Breaks song was playing in the background). My companion and I and the other comps started to cheer. It was funny because we were so stoked! There was an English room where we could listen to conference, and I was the only missionary in my zone out of all the Americans who listened to it in Spanish. When the missionaries from the MTC sang, aparently they saw David Archuleta in the choir as a missionary! We all ran up to the screen to read his plack and when we realized it was him we all started cheering and jumping up and down that he had made the decision to be a missionary! My comp said afterwards that he felt kinda weird because we were like these 13 year old girls screaming and jumping as if  he came out to sing or something, haha. But wow, I've truly gotten an even stronger testimony about fasting. We fasted this week to help out an investigator named Javier who hasn´t been able to go to church for a month because of his work, and also to find a family. During our fast Saturday during the night we found a way awesome family, and they want to follow Christ better than they are right now. Then after our fast we went to go to see Javier Wednesday and he told us during the lesson that he couldn't stop thinking about how he really needed to get to church and he couldn't get it out of his mind. He told us for sure that he was going to go to church and nothing was going to stop him. I am so thankful for the power of fasting. It truly shows that God blesses us when we go the extra mile. A lot of times we can't see and can't understand how happy these blessings will make us when we go the extra mile for the Lord.  Just like it says in Ether 12: 6 "you will not recieve a testimony of these things until after the trial of your faith." May we all act with more faith and go the extra mile for the Lord so we will be blessed and have a full knowledge of this truth.  Love, Elder Christoffersen