Happy Easter!

 

Hey Family,

  Is it just me or have you guys been getting sick more than usual since I've been gone? I feel like I read that all the time, haha. I really hope everyone is getting better. Easter season is a good time to remember that when we'll resurrect we'll have perfect bodies! What a great blessing. Noah made Encore eh? Man that guy has just too much talent. Congratz, bro. P.S. when is the baby coming? this month right? goodness.

  Our P-day is switched to today this week, because we just had the opportunity to go do a session at the temple. It was incredible. I went into the temple with a question, and came out of the temple with much more. I'm excited to have more things to study. :) I love the temple.

  This week has been quite full of miracles. I had the most spiritual day of my life this last Thursday. I was on exchanges with Elder Lindsay, and I don't know why but the Lord decided to teach us a lot of things that day. It was such a happy day, the spirit was almost tangible. I really don't even know how to explain it in words, it was just super great. Then on Friday we had a mission conference, which was also incredible. At the end, after President had talked for a while and the spirit was really strong, President said, "A man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood has the power to bless..." Then, from the pulpit, he pronounced a blessing on every missionary . Angels were in that building that day, nobody could deny that. It was just amazing.

  Alice will be getting baptized this week, and possibly brother and sister H---. I don't know if I ever talked to you guys about them. They are cousins of a member that came to America to have their 2nd baby. They came to church and loved it, and Brother H--- has been reading conference ensigns and just trying to take in as much knowledge as he can. We haven't been able to meet with them for the past month because she just had her baby, but we finally met on Sunday. We will find out if they want to be baptized later tonight... we're praying for them. They go back to Shanghai next week, so they'd have to be baptized and confirmed this Sunday! Exciting.

  I love it out here... Driving back from the temple today we drove through my first area, Alhambra. It made me think how much I'm going to miss California. The perfect weather, the food, the psychos... haha. For the first time ever I actually feel like I could live here. At least here in Rowland Heights. It's so pretty. Anyways, I hope every one starts feeling better. I love you guys. Have a good week!

 

Love, Ben.

Conference

Helloooo family.

 

  Conference was incredible. I learned so much, and so many prayers were answered! I loved Richard G. Scott's talk about receiving revelation, as well as Elder Holland's. And the last 3 seventies in sunday afternoon. and pretty much everybody's. By the way, I'm calling it right now, Ronald A. Rasband and L. Whitney Clayton are the next apostles. Just letting you guys know. I feel like the resounding theme of the whole conference was love and charity. They talked so much about how we should treat others. I loved it. We watched it at the stake center, and I watched it in english. Watching it in chinese is just not the same, the voices aren't as powerful as the brethren, and the jokes they make don't make sense, haha. English is just the best. Good news! You know how I talked about an investigator named Alice a couple weeks ago? How she was awesome but then moved to San Diego? Yeah, she moved back. Pretty awesome story. Elder Fish and I were on bike, and we had some time just to go talk to people, but we weren't sure if should follow our plan we made the night before or go to someplace new. We decided that if our planning was inspired like it should be, then the Lord would lead us to the people we needed to see that day. We locked our bikes up against a fence, and the moment I looked up I saw Alice on the other side of the street, she had just gotten off the bus. We saw each other at the same time and she was super excited to see us. We ran over to her and set up an appointment. When we met with her the next day she told us that when she saw us the day before, she had gotten off the wrong bus stop. Man, just think if she would have kept going or got off one stop earlier? We wouldn't have found her again. The Lord truly maps out every moment in order to fulfil his commandments. She's getting baptized on the 15th :)

   I'm excited for this next week. I feel like a lot of good will get done. I'm looking forward with an "eye of faith" like it says in Alma 32. I love the Aw (pronounced oh) family that I'm living with. Sister Aw always makes us homemade bread and it's the best. Before I leave them I wanna get them some nice gift. We'll see. Anyways I love you, family. I pray for you guys every day. Especially for EJ and Noah lately. They're growing up in a terrible world! But they're lucky they live in the best family ever.

 

Love, Ben.