Why hello there everyone! Oh man do i love conference. I come away feeling so "edified" idk i cant explain it any other way. Saturday we were able to go to Castilla and watch it in the stake center. Even though anyone and everyone can come to watch saturday everyone was working or busy so it was basically just all of the missionaries in our zone and a few members there watching all day. It was awesome. We watched all 3 sessions on saturday in spanish which just wasnt the same. I understood basically all of it but even if spanish was my first language i would rather watch it in English! For example we were watching Elder Hollands talk and naturally hes just going off and burning everyone like i love and what happens with the translation is that you can very very very quietly hear him speak in english when the translator stops or pauses. So hes talking and all i hear in english was "Step up! do it yourself"! haha thats something that gets lost in translation for sure. Its just not the same. Part of the reason that i love conference so much is because the pure pure love that the profets and apostles speak with. It cant be matched. I still learned a ton but it made me realize just how thankful i should be to know english, the language of the restoration. But after the morning session on saturday we managed to get a member from our branch that was there to go to piura for us and buy us Pizza Hut! yum. we couldnt go because it was outside of our zone but he brought it back and we ate it all :) Then on sunday it was a little interesting. We ended up staying here in La Unión to watch conference on the internet. It was cool because i got to watch the morning session in english but the only problem was that the internet was so slow that we couldnt watch it...lol just audio. but that was alright too because Elder Uchdorfs talk was written just for me haha, so true so true and something that i really want to work on. Oh and i cant forget how beautiful come thou fount was sunday morning. Then in the afternoon we ended up watchin it in this house of a member with a big flat screen tv, but he also lets kids pay to play his playstation so the kids were there screaming and playing throughout the whole session AND it was in spanish so to be honest with you i didnt learn anything from that conference session...lol except that one of the apostles told james to get married....haha but thats okay cuz itll be something good to read when the conference ensign comes.
Thats really really funny that you mention David Archuleta because Elder Chichia my comp always says that i look like him (even though i know i dont) and so he was joking around again and said that he saw me in the choir that was singing because someone looked like David. I cant believe it was actually him! nuts! That would be so awesome! hes gonna come Piura Peru and im gonna train him haha. does he already know spanish then? I always thought he wasnt allowed to go on a mission because he would be a distraction but i guess that solves the problem, dont tell anyone where hes going and send him to a country where he isnt famous.
So hopefully ill get those packages tomorrow, we´ll see. but im sure its all okay. oh and thanks a lot for the pictures, tell james he looks like a nerd with his V-neck and that hoodie. oh and take off my hat fool! oh yeah and thats a good looking cup that he was drinking out of at dinner, he must have finally come around, looks like that family really does get blessed while there is a missionary in the field ;) oh yeah and tell james that i recieved revelation the other night in the form of a dream. i dreamt that he came on a mission and that he got called to Piura Peru. Thatd be so awesome, hed get here when i had about a year and then when he ended his mission I could come back and go tracting with him for the last week of the mish. and i would know the president still.
Oh and our new president that will come in June or July is named President Rowley from just south of Provo. I think they are apple farmers or something like that haha. But yeah they sent us a picture. Lets see what else is going on? not a whole lot. If you wanna send me a present i would love a burned CD with a bunch of EFY songs. right now we have EFY 2010 and they are pretty good songs. But other than that not much. We should have a couple baptisms this week before the next transfers so we´ll see. next monday are transfers and i dont think either of us elder chichia and i are leaving but i really dont know do i?
I love and miss you all. Cant believe that 6 months have gone by since the last conference. Cant wait to get the ensign and read them all over again. There is something very specail about the words that the prophets speak with us. They cant be found anywhere else. Love you all tons!
Elder Woodburn
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