October 8, 2012

Highlight of this week--CONFERENCE!! How great is that!? Changing the ages of missionaries to 18 for elders and 19 for sister? Crazy! All of the missionaries in my area were super excited about that.  There is
so much work to do, and there are only so many hours in a day--definitely need more missionaries.  So they are changing the MTC time too.  If they are English speaking it is 2 weeks, if they are Spanish speaking it is 6 weeks (not 8 like mine) and if it is a super hard language it is only 8 weeks.  They are trying to get a lot more
missionaries in the field!

But I especially loved the Saturday sessions, of course they were all good, but I love them!  I loved how mainly all of the talks were about missionary work, the plan of salvation, finding joy even in the hard
times, and becoming a converted servant of the Lord.  It was neat how the apostle Peter was mentioned SO many times.  I really like learning about him.  Best General Conference ever.

Did you watch the talk on Saturday by Larry Echo Hawk? Well, it was great! He shared a lot about how the book of Mormon is written for the Lamanite descendants and how it is a blessing to his people.  Well we have an investigator that NEEDED that talk.  He is native american and reads the Book of Mormon and comes to church with his family, but it hasn't really connected with him yet.  We are going to watch that talk with his on Wednesday and I have no doubt that it is going to be powerful.  I am excited for it!

Well after conference was over on Sunday we had a baptism, it was so good.  It was just a spiritually uplifting day all around :)

The rest of the week has been awesome as well.  We have been finding a lot more families to teach.  There is 1 that I am super excited about. The mom's name is E**, and her son and J** have been talking lessons for a bit and they really have a desire to learn more.  They ask the most sincere questions and are trying there hardest to come to church and to read.  Her husband, L**, is one of the nicest people I have met.  He is not interested in learning about the church, or so he says, but he has been sneaking in the room a little for lessons
lately....it makes Hermana Taylor and I so happy.  The last time we had lesson with them L** brought their 2 other kids, A** and B**, in the room and wanted them to sit in on the lesson too.  So, maybe he isn't quite willing to really learn more about the church, but he can see a difference in J** y E**'s life and he wants the rest of his family to have that too.  E** is set for baptism on the 27, and hopefully the whole family can be ready by then.  They are such a great family and I know that the gospel will bless their life so much!
Happy day:)

Well, I love you all.  Hope you got to or will get to watch every session of conference because it was so good, how lucky we are to know that there is a prophet that guides Christs church on the earth today. Lots of love :)