Monday, August 24, 2015

Aug 3 2015 - An exciting week for the Conrad Family


Hello Family!!!

 

Well hello my awesome family! Today was another awesome P-Day and a pretty good week! Even though there wasn't that much missionary work that went on.

First of all, Ill give a shout out to my sister Emily who is leaving on her mission in 2 days! Man i am super excited and cant keep thinking of the wonderful experience she is about to partake in her life. 

 

And also I was super pumped to get the 2 packages this week! Let me say everyone kind of hates me right now but dont worry mom, I have been sharing ;) I was pretty stoked about the strawberry and Chocolate Nesquik! And yes I did get the Debit card but I havent tried it yet. I got to talk to Daniel for a small moment so hopefully I can talk more next week at church. He did give me an embarrassing hug thanks to you mom :)

 

This week has been pretty good because of the training that we recieved in Bangalore. So, we left Tuesday night on train which again was fun and a little sketchy. I just love watching what I think are mice running around in the train. When we arrived in Bangalore, all the zones that attended met up at the church. We had the Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore and the 4 Sri Lanka missionaries with us so we had a huge group.

Basically the 3 day training consisted of 8 hours a day and learning the principals/fundamentals of Preach My Gospel. So that included many things and kept us busy. We did lots of teaching practices to help us improve and apply the things we were learning. They were long hours but it was important for us to learn. Hopefully we will all go back to our areas and apply the things we learned.

After the trainings we would go with a set of elders and go to their area in Bangalore and try to visit and practice more. Which was kind of lame for us since the area took us an hour and a half to get their with all the traffic and being night. 

But an interesting experience that I got was to teach a person of the Muslim faith for the first time. We have to get special permission from President  in order to teach Muslims due to reasons. It was a pretty cool experience. I didnt really know how to go about teaching to well but I felt the lesson went well. He has a desire to learn how he can recieve an answer if Jesus Christ was actually our Savior and Redeemer.

We had lots of fun in Banglore, the area we got to stay in was loaded with nice restaurants. I was able to have Taco Bell, Burger King and Krespy Kreme! Oh man it was the best!

 

After the Training we went back to Coimbatore and everything is well. We set 2 new baptismal dates with A new investigator named Charles for the 22 of Aug! He is an awesome kid alot like Jebaraj. The Training took pretty much the whole week but it was good to have. 

Jebaraj was confirmed this week at church and gave a small testimony in fast and testimony meeting which made my day.

 

Today for P-Day we went to see Taj and his family since they are leaving next week and asked if we could go visit them one last time. haha So we went and hung out with them again :) This time we didnt play much bball but went on a cool hike in the forest. Which was pretty cool since Taj said no one is allowed where we went but since he has some pretty cool connections they allowed us in. We hiked up to a cool waterfall place and had fun watching everyone play in the water... :( but it was super cool. Very pretty. They didnt let us take pictures for some reason but im pretty sure we will get some.

 

Love you all and thank you all so much for the awesome letters you gave! Have a great week everyone!

-Elder Conrad

 

 

 

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