I Loved Conference

HOWDY HOWDY HOWDY!

This week has been the bomb.

 During the choir practice yesterday we practiced a new song called "I am Jesus Christ" and at the end of one line it said "what a morn, glorious dawn, Christ is born" or something but the r and the n on the end of morn and born looked so much like an "m" that the first time singing it some people sang on accident "What a mom, glorious dawn, Christ is bomb" OH MAN that was funny. AND it rhymed. 

Mom, I appreciate your love and your letter. I love you so much!!!!!!!!! 

I loved conference but I am going to have to get the conference ensigns to read all of the sessions. On Saturday in between sessions, we got a call from a bishop in the area who had a member in the emergency room in a hospital near here so we left immediately. It was a good experience, nothing too traumatic. She was very appreciative of the visit and we were able to give her a book of Mormon. She hasn't been to church in a while due to her health and she hasn't been reading her scriptures so we promised her that she will at the very least feel God's love and peace from the spirit as she reads daily. She has family that she has been trying to share the gospel with and they were there as well. Good experience. We then got a call, not 3 minutes after we had returned to the church house, from a member in our ward who's husband is in an assisted living home and was having a very hard week. We went immediately again and he had been moved from his previous room because he got in a fist fight with his roommate the night before. We visit him often, but he was way different this time. He said he lost his wife 6 months ago and he tried to kill his dad 6 months ago because his dad beat him up his whole life for looking like Sylvester Stalone. He also told us later that Sylvester owned the building we were in and the heaters in it. It was so bizarre. None of that is true, haha, so we just tried to be his friend. The most real moment was when he asked for a blessing. We asked him what's been going on lately and he said "I don't even know who I am anymore" I remembered Elder Uchtdorf's talk and said "Phillippe, you are a son of GOD who is going through a rough time" and he got really quiet and said "I haven't felt like a son of God in a long time" he was teary eyed for a second, then a minute later he was back to ranting about killing people and Sylvester Stalone playing various roles in his life. WIERD. 

We felt like Phillipe's ex roommate Louis might need a visit and so we went to see how he was doing. He was a little shaken up but we actually stayed there and watched conference with him! After some prying he told us that his family had just gotten baptized in Maryland and that he was interested in learning. After conference (he slept through most of it, bless his heart) we had a little lesson and set him to be baptized on May 11. HOW AMAZING!!!!!? We know that The LORD prepared for Louis to meet us that day. 

I loved conference. Being gone for a session threw me off a little but I loved the Priesthood session and the whole time I was thinking "Dad and Josh are there" and that was cool. 

This week we got a new companion, Elder Moffett. He was in our zone being trained but we took over the training. :) I love that! He has been out 3 weeks and we will finish out the 12-week training program with him. 

I need to go, I love you all!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Andreasen

P.S. I choose Christ!