Salutations to my beloved family and friends who shall be
reading this lengthy epistle. A wondrous number of strange unrelated
events occurred this week so I shall work at describing it the best I
can. Shall we begin?
I must begin with last Tuesday. Since Zone Conference
was on Wednesday we chose to move our monthly missionary meeting with Bishop
Falescini to this day. Bishop Falescini turns out to have a great story
of how he was planning on being a missionary with Sister Falescini but then was
called to be the Bishop of Apollo Beach. A lot of great things were
discussed and I feel the ward is changing to become more missionary minded.
We went out with Brother Young after the meeting. We
drove around the area a bit and stopped by a few member new move ins.
Wednesday was Zone Conference and we drove quite a long way
to get there. President Cooper made a big emphasis on going back to the
basics of it all. 2018 should be a great year from many of the things we
talked about this Zone Conference. It was all about working with the
members / finding in better ways.
Thursday was not too eventful besides going down to the edge
of society in the southern part of Apollo Beach.
Friday was definitely eventful. We did a member lesson
that night with the Ordinola's. Brother Ordinola works at Spectrum.
It was a good discussion on how we can get to know our neighbors better.
They were appreciative of it and gave us some cranberry juice and oatmeal.
Saturday became extremely interesting as we needed to help a
single sister out with some electrical expertise, hence the subject
title. Our Young men's President was there as well and he is a real
electrician. It was my duty to crawl underneath the house and drill some
screws in so that we could put up a cable up and create a new outlet. It
was dark, full of dirt, and damp down there. There also was no racoons,
badgers, wolverines, bats snakes or solicitors down there so that was a
blessing.
Sunday was great because we had a Regional conference of the
Southeastern states. The Southeastern region covers most of the Southern
states. Elder Ulisses Soares of the Seventy was there as well as Elder
Bednar. All of the talks were great but Elder Bednar did the best.
I wish I could transcribe it all down but that would be impossible. Elder
Bednar talked about Faith and Repentance.
"Faith is all about believing in the Savior and His
ability to heal us. The name of the Great Physician is true because Jesus
heals us from our Spiritual maladies and wounds just like a normal physician
fixes physical diseases and wounds."
"Repentance is truly a great thing. It helps us
overcome more than just sins, it helps us overcome weakness as well.
Repentance is for everyone, sinners and saints as it allows us to get the Savior's
help."
Elder Bednar gave a warning that we should not sin now and
expect repentance to be easy. He said that it is "hard to turn away
from sin when our purpose was to sin."
After that we had a good linger longer and were able to set
up some stuff with some Elders in the Elders Quorum where they go out with
us. A investigator named Ron was there and he is getting great
fellowship.
That is about all. For a spiritual thought I will put
a cool quote I found this week:
Every day I have a choice. I can choose to have
a good day or a bad day. I choose to have a good day.
Love you all and hope you have a great week.
Elder Fabricius
Pictures:
Both of us being goofy
The edges of society
