This
weekend, Elder Bednar came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH
MY GOSH!!! We saw him at Stake Conference on Saturday, he gave
an incredible talk! (funny hearing him speak Russian ;) ) And
yesterday he gave another incredible talk. THEN, we had the
opportunity to meet with him as missionaries. Only the
missionaries in Moscow stake got to go, so I was WAY lucky. He
came, and I was expecting to get an intense lecture/talk about
missionary work and stuff, maybe like Elder Holland style. But
he came up to the stand, and told us that we would be have a
discussion. He had asked us to read three talks of his before,
and he just asked us what we learned. He started just calling
on missionaries and we would say what we learned, and then he would
go off for a while about it. He called on me, and asked me some
follow up questions to my comments. I talked to Bednar :D And
then he asked us to ask any ANY questions we wanted, and he would go
off about them. I, and we, REALLY learned a LOT about how to
become a better teacher. It was supposed to start at 2 (it
started about 245) and it went until 6:30!!!! And I was way sad
when he left. I shook his hand. It was the most
spiritually building experience I think I've had in my life, in that
short of time. It was truly incredible. I don't
understand how his mind works; he's my favorite apostle now for sure
:)
