Conference was really great! We missed most of the first session on Saturday morning due to some upset stomachs but made it in time for President Uchtdorfs which I thought was fantastic! We just watched it at the church building. About the age change... hmm I’m not really too sure how I feel about it. 18 seems young and with the immaturity of some of the 19 and 20 year olds it worries me a little that they will be worse. the problem with 19 year old sister missionaries is that lots more will go which means when we get home there may be a lot of girls on missions. It narrows our pool of potential wives hahaha The Saturday afternoon session we watched over at a family’s house. We actually had dinner over at their house last Thursday and they were a super awesome family and we asked if we could possibly watch a session of conference at their house. They said yes and even fed us lunch and afterward sent us home with a TON of food. They are feeding us again on Thursday. I think they like us more than the sister missionaries in their ward. hahaha Priesthood session we watched at the church building of course and we sat with the Spanish missionaries in our zone. Sunday we ended up watching both sessions at the H’s apartment. They are a senior missionary couple and are super fun to be around. It was really fun being able to watch it with them and they made us breakfast and lunch! People are too good to us sometimes haha.
Most of our week this last week was spent going and teaching members. We were really working on finding a way to help members do missionary work so we were trying to figure out what the first step would be and we concluded that the first step in missionary work is being able to recognize the Holy Ghost. So we came up with a lesson to teach people starting with reading out of PMG. (They recently came out with mini PMG's so we are able to take them around with us more easily) PG 96 and read about how the Holy Ghost gives small promptings and how we really need to pay attention to them. Then we read some scriptures the first from Gal. 5:22-23, then 2 Nephi 32:5, and last Moroni 7:13, 16-17. Then read PMG PG 97 to finish off. Afterwards we left them with some papers we made that had some scriptures about the Holy Ghost and a blank spot next to them and asked them to read the scriptures then write what they learned and we set up appointments to go back and follow up this week. We had 2 very common responses which helped us really see how inspired it was that we started with this. Every young adult we taught this too said the same thing "Yes, I have trouble recognizing the Holy Ghost." a couple even asked us "How did you guys know that I’ve been struggling with this? This is exactly what I needed." There was a family we taught it too because their daughter is in our ward but still lives at home so we ate and then taught this and the dad said "I think the Lord knew what he was doing when he put you two back together because you teach together how missionaries should." It was nice to hear that. That was most of our week though not a ton happened but at least it wasn’t a bad week. This next week Elder C. Scott Grow is coming to the mission. The Zone Leaders have a meeting with him tomorrow night and then he speaks to the entire mission on Friday so I’m really excited for both of those. Also between conferences we ended up cleaning up our apartment and de-junking it and I’m pretty sure it’s the cleanest missionary apartment in the mission by far. haha and most of the time I was thinking "well I’m glad that mom taught me how to clean well." haha It was a pretty good week... except on Friday which was the day we went up to see D B get baptized. We were almost up there and we got a text that it was cancelled. Now they are on their way to Ohio to live. We went up anyways and got to see Elder N which was super nice. He was an awesome comp. then we went and stopped by the B’s because I never told them goodbye and I heard they were upset that I left. So we decided to surprise them and boy we did. N B did like a double take and was like "Your back? For how long?" haha It was good to see them though and actually get to say goodbye and I promised to keep in better contact with them. But yeah bummer about the baptism but it was made up for. Also we stopped by the DI after an appointment in C and we found some AWESOME ties. That rarely happens at this DI but they had just restocked and they had some real quality ties there. Well that’s about all. Love you tons and hope you have a great week!
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