Visit of Elder Nelson to the DR

It was our privilege to translate for Elder and sister Nelson this past Sunday on a stake conference and a devotional. The talks were amazing. At stake conference he had the children stand to sing I am a child of God and to always remember how special they all are. He commended the parents for bringing the children. She spoke on how would we act if we took the word saint seriously into our daily routines, like how would a mother, father, employee, employer, teacher, etc. act as a saint and told a story of a temple in Tonga to be dedicated, had the words Holiness to the Lord missing so they quickly got the words posted or the Temple could not be dedicated. In the evening, at the Institute, over 800 university students came. She gave a different talk because she felt guided by the spirit to tell them of her experience as a young woman turning away proposal after proposal to be married. she would take the question to the General Conference and each time, the answer would come to her but it is a personal revelation, she explained, it had nothing to do with the actual talks. He went over all the personal progress values and asked the young men to look at those values to be at the level of purity as the young women. Each value was explained with stories and good advice. when he got to knowledge for example, he said: The difference between not getting an education and getting an education is that you have the desire to help others and being able to serve others. He also told the parents to teach their children another language. Daniel translated for him in every meeting, and I translated for Wendy. I was nervous at first but got the hang of it, and the words just came out effortless as if someone else was saying those words for me. It is an experience I will never forget, because I told Daniel that I didn't want to do it since there were other interpreters there that had done it before many times and that I wanted to practice in a smaller setting instead. But he encouraged me to translate for her and I am glad I did. In those meetings there were hundreds that came.