Hello Family and Friends.

It was a great week and General Conference was amazing. During the sessions of Conference I was on an exchange with Elder Long, my good buddy. We watch all of the sessions on a computer in the branch building so that we could watch it in English. It is just better to hear the real voice of the prophet and the apostles. They spoke a lot about how to use our agency and following the prophet, always.
I got a good half of the priesthood session and the MTC choir was amazing. Dad, when they sang ´´Hark All ye Nations``, it was so powerful. The talk that Russel M. Nelson gave about when he loaned the Book of Mormon to his friends was amazing. We always look and listen to the prophets, but never think of them as doing member missionary work. Because his faith and confidence in the Lord´s Gospel a family was baptized and now generations will be affected because he was not afraid to share the gospel and he had confidence in the Lord´s promises. I hope none of you are afraid to share the gospel with anyone. It is the most valuable gift that Heavenly Father has given us and if we do not share it with our brothers and sisters we will have to look Jesus Christ in the eyes in the last day and tell him why.
``I thought they would not except it. I thought that I would lose their friendship. I thought I might offend them.`` You should be worried about offending God. Fear not them which are able to kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28)
I invite you all to pray for strength and arose your senses and realize how wicked the world is and how badly God needs YOU to spread the gospel. Don´t be afraid of what any man can say or do, rather be bold and faithful and true and confide in that God who created you.
Yes, I enjoyed conference quite a bit. As you can see from one shot, the re-transmission of the priesthood session wasn´t too popular in the branch. Just me and Elder Long... and Elder Richard G. Scott.
My son is doing good. He is a great Elder and a blessing to train. He has the will to work hard and do what his leaders and Heavenly Father expect of him. The Lord had blessed us with many great people to teach and this week Joara and Aldo, a Dad and daughter will be baptized as well as three other great people that the Lord has blessed us with. If you do your part and have faith, the Lord always does his.
I got a letter from Alex. He is doing good. He sent me two cd´s of classical music, which I am very thankful for.
I have written a bunch of cards and I haven´t sent a single one for over seven weeks. I´M WRITTING!!!!! just not sending. All of the areas in my zone right now are way far away from each other, so it is really expensive to go to meetings and do exchanges with the other missionaries, so I already used all of my personal money that I had and I am waiting on reimbursements.
I am almost out of money to use this computer so I will go ahead and send you guys this great email.
I love the work and I love my companion and this is going to be the best transfer of the mission yet!!!
Love,]

Elder Nothum

the video is the little boy of a recent convert. He is saying over and over again ´´YOU CAN GO TO CHURCH!!!`` His name is Kennedy and he is a really funny cute kid.