January 24

We had interviews two weeks ago and I was talking with Sister Call about whatever stuff, she likes chatting with me, but she was saying that President Call's mom, Marion Call has worked in the Ogden temple forever and now that its closing they dont know what she's going to do. I told her that Grandpa and Grandma Hancock had been working there for quite some time... so if they know each other it would be a small world huh.
It was stake conference, Saturday was normal conference session and Sunday they broadcasted from Salt Lake City a session especifically for this region of Mexico, Elder Jeffery R. Holland was the presiding authority and Elder Grow from the 70s was directing it. they basically told Mexico that they need to step it up and be better members and support themselves and pull their own weight.

4 points specifically were 1-the responsiblities of parents teaching their childeren the doctorine, 2-fulfilling temple covenents and working in the temples and taking out their endownments, 3- pay your tithing, a worthy full tithing, 4- and the church wants to see more missionaries from mexico. they compared statistics with the USA and Canada and Mexico and between u.s. and Canada 50% of the jovenes go on missions and only 10% of mexican jovenes go on missions or something like that and that if the number was the same as U.S. there would be between 16,000 and 17,000 more missionaris serving full time missions and stuff like that. They mentioned alot about how basically the mexicans are the lamanites descendents and need to step it up and fulfill the covenants, prophecies, and work of God.

Things seem like the church is trying to push the members to really be members and everyone work harder and better. Remember that really be members and fulfill your baptismal covenents by always being a servant of Christ and doing the work of god which is to bring to pass the eternal life of man(moses 1:39)
When Jeffery Holland spoke he started out speaking spanish really bad and said that to spare us all he's going to give his talk in english and have it interpreted but when he closed he was all emotional like everytime he talks and started bearring his testimony in spanish, but fluent and without thinking about the conjugations and translations of the words, it was cool to see. These leaders are really called of God and have magnified their priesthood authority and are guiding the church in the direction that He wants.

Help Levi help the ward and try to get all them inactives to church and fulfill your callings. and if anyone wants to send me some good bible bashing scriptures that would be cool, i can sustain myself but you know, the more the merrier!