A Week in Tapachula

Hola all,

Well this week has been fun.

Compared to other weeks it seems like nothing really happened this week.

This week Elder Prows had to get another ingrown toenail out. So we didn’t work Friday and Saturday. So I spent the day reading the Liahona. I really like this quote from President Ezra Taft Benson he says, "THE LIVING PROPHET IS MORE IMPORTANT TO US THAN A DEAD PROPHET...God’s revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the Ark. Noah needed his own revelation. Therefore the most important prophet so far as you and I are concerned is the one living in our day and age to whom the Lord is currently revealing His will for us. Therefore the most important reading we can do is any of the words of the prophet contained each month in our Church Magazines. Our instructions about what we should do for each six months are found in the General Conference addresses which are printed in the Church magazine. Beware of those who would set up the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence."

 This having been said I think it is our duty to watch General Conference where the living prophet of God, President Thomas S. Monson spoke and gave us counsel.

 This whole week though I was looking forward to General Conference. I was also a little bit worried about how much I would understand in Spanish, so I turned to the Lord for help a few days in advance. So the first session of Conference came on Saturday morning and we went and watched it in our church building. At least the music was in English, you can’t translate that. So yeah the first speaker was President Packer, boy is he old, but he talked really slow and was easy to understand, a few later President Eyring and even though I didn’t understand him very well I felt his emotions and feeling as he was speaking, The Holy Ghost can traverse barriers of language and great distance as well. The next two sessions we watched in English in a Cyber (place where you can rent computers) so that was nice. All the talks were really good. I really liked the talk by President Uchtdorf when he said, "Many of the things you can count, don’t count, and many of the things you can’t count, do count."  Then on Sunday we went to the stake center to watch the sessions, we only had one investigator there, but that’s ok. But I thought it was hilarious when President Uchtdorf started talking in German and that was like oh sorry President Monson. But overall, it was a great General Conference; a lot of focus on the family. If you didn’t get the opportunity to watch the Conference here is the link. You can watch all the sessions from this link. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2015/04?cid=HP_SU_4-5-2015_dPTH_fGC_xLIDyL1-B_&lang=spa

In President Uchtdorf’s talk, I learned that sometimes we are focused on things that don’t count in the eternal perspective. And sometimes we get caught up in these things and our pride for things can lead us to sin and be offended when someone criticizes us. So if anything, the Prophet has said this conference if it offends you, it is because you are not looking in the eternal perspective and being selfish and wanting only what is good for your temporal self and not for your eternal self.

So I hope you all watch and read the talks of the Prophet and Apostles this week and many weeks to come. Their words can help you and set you on a course for the better. I hope that you all meditate on the passages they have spoken and it will bless your lives in so many ways. I know this church is true with all my heart, and I know that Thomas S. Monson is the living Prophet on this Earth. In the words of Joseph Smith, "I know it, and I know that God knows it, and I cannot deny it"

Love you all,

Elder Pugmire

My district, you will notice we all have matching ties in memory of Elder Fackrell.

Mi Amigo Roberto with my suit jacket on.