04-05-10

I hope that you all enjoyed Easter and General Conference. We stayed here to watch conference instead of traveling to Punta Arenas, which is three hours away. We weren´t able to see priesthood session because they don´t broadcast it live on the internet. And Sunday morning we only saw the last talk because of some technical difficulties with the internet. It finally got fixed, but we ended up having to move to another room where the internet was better. So what I saw of conference, I loved. I am really looking forward to the magazine though, so I can read what I didn´t get to hear.

What I loved is how most of conference was focused on how to protect and strengthen our families. It was sooo cool to hear all the prophet's and apostles talks. One talk that I really liked was about how we need to make good judgments and the steps that we need to take to do that.

Things with Elder Sanford and I are going great. We are working hard, and we have found some really cool people. We are hoping to invite them all to baptism this week.

One man that we found this last week is named Antonio. The first time we knocked on his door, he was pretty contentious and didn´t want to listen to us. But then we talked to him a bit about his family and then shared with him the thirty-second version of the restoration. He agreed to let us come by another day for 15 minutes.

So we went by the other day and we taught him and his wife, Elizabeth, about the restoration, and it was amazing. They understood so well and at the end, they said that they would read and pray about the Book of Mormon that night. We are going back to teach them tomorrow, so we will find out how it went. Antonio was really active in the Catholic church for the majority of his life, he even helped out with the youth program there. But then something happened with him not agreeing with a bad choice that a priest made, and they got in an argument and he stopped going to that church.

It was just such a good feeling to see someone excited to hear about the restoration and understand it all. Please keep Antonio and Elizabeth in your prayers.

Well, I hope that everything is amazing for all of you. It isn´t horribly cold here yet, but it is getting colder each week and it gets darker earlier and earlier. I think it will start getting pretty cold in a month or so. I don´t think that it gets that much colder than it does in Montana, the only thing is that I haven´t ever had to walk around all day during the winter before.

Love,
Elder Brian Sheahan (the no-named elder, because no one here wants to risk mispronouncing my name, or they don´t know how. I know how it is Scott.)