April 6th E-mail

Well Hello there fam! whats happenin? Was conference sweet or what! BAM! I cant wait for the ensign to come out! so i can study those talks! Jeffrey R Holland's talk blew me out of the water! It makes so much sense that the reason Heavenly Father withdrew himself from Christ wasn't because he couldn't bear to see his son that way but was because the savior had to experience spiritual death (not being in the presence of God) and so it was a must! so that he knew what it was like to be alone! WOW! I love conference! I hope you all got a lot out of it! there is so much to learn! We had a great week! and conference Sunday we got a new investigator! it was great! we also went tracting and we started talking to this guy named Dustin and he asked me if we celebrated palm Sunday... well by the look on my face he could tell i had no idea what the heck that even was... and so he told us what it was and what not.. well i said well we have an even better Sunday then that... we have an opportunity to hear from a prophet of God.. and then he said hold up, you are talking to a Protestant here and i have been to a lot of churches who will claim to have men of God and maybe even apostles but here you are now telling me that you have a prophet.. he says you have to have some big cajones to sit here and claim that you have a prophet.. and i was like well.. we got em! and he goes well tell me about the holy ghost so i told him what he does and what his role is.. and he says so you have the bible and you have the holy ghost.. why do you need more? and i said your right... in these crazy times in the world we couldn't use any more guidance... and he goes well no im just saying.. and i just smiled and then he says well how do you know he is a prophet and i said by the power of the Holy Ghost and he says you really think that the Holy Ghost told you that he is a prophet? and I said I don't think... I KNOW that the Holy Ghost has bore witness to me that Thomas Monson is a prophet of God! and just BAM! it was great! i was shutting him down left and right lol... but we invited ourselves back and he said ok but i have a lot of questions so come ready to bring it just like I'm going to bring it... and we said no problem... lol! it was awesome! but conference always gets me fired up to go talk to people! i love it! well i love you guys a ton! so the baptism is going to be at 10:00 a.m. and the church in Shanni's neighborhood on Bernina... and it will be Saturday the 18th... so invite all! and take pictures! I love you guys! thank you for everything! take care!

Elder Penman