The Temple and General Conference

What's up friends and family, hope you all had an amazing week, mine was so good!!

Monday preparation day was good! We just had a picnic as a district and continued to get to know each other! I played some pickle ball with an Elder in the district which was fun as well! That night we stopped by the Forston family and had a short visit with them, awesome family and super funny!! Crazy thing: we got a call from a random number, the lady starts apologizing for not making it to church on Sunday, we had no idea who she was, but she wanted to meet up, so we set up a time for Tuesday!! She got a text from us about Easter and apparently felt bad she couldn't make it! 

Tuesday's district council was awesome. We talked about the importance of being in tune with the spirit and united with your companion. Because the more united you are the more the spirit will be there! Then we got a new truck, counted up some numbers for a stake meeting. Then we had an awesome lesson with Martha, the lady that called on Monday. She loved the idea of modern day Prophets and ended up watching conference!!! 

Wednesday we had an exchange with Elder Mansfield and Swallow. I was with Elder Mansfield in my area and we had a lot of fun! Met Grace who had a lot of good questions about our church and she appreciated the answers! We had an awesome lesson with our friend Rick who was so excited go watch conference after we talked about the need for modern day Prophets! 

Thursday was the TEMPLE TRIP!!! It was so amazing to be back in the temple, to feel the Spirit that is there! The Los Angeles Temple is so big and so beautiful. It was great to see some fellow missionaries that I haven't seen in a while. I know the temple is the house of the Lord and a refuge from the worries, rush, and craziness of the world. We got to finish the day off with dinner at the Heimuli's home and they always cook good, so that was a little bonus on top of going go the temple! 

Friday we had a large missionary meeting. We heard from President Rodriguez who talked a lot about love. How love needs to be the reason we want to teach people, the reason why we want them to come to church, the reason behind inviting them to be baptized, not just so we can get the number. Then a member of The mission presidency President Ridgeway talked about taking advantage of the time we have with President and Sister Rodriguez and learning from them, following their example, as heeding their counsel. We also learned that we're having a mission tour again, which means a genral authority is coming! They didn't say who, but it'll be in May!!! 

Saturday Geneal Conference was amazing!!! I absolutely loved hearing from our living Prophets and Apostles! We watched all three sessions at the church with a bunch of snacks they kept us awake and attentive! Between sessions we would walk around and invite everyone to conference! Email me if you want to hear about my favorite talks!!! 

Sunday General conference! We went to the Whitmans home for breakfast and the morning session, then had lunch with the Hada's and watched the second session, then had dinner with the Heimuli family. So we had a lot of food and were well taken care of! Also, got to hear from the  Prophet and hear him announce 15 new temples!!!! It's crazy that General Conference has already come and gone, but now we get to look back for the next 6 months and continue to learn from their words!!!! 

I love these three things that Brian K. Taylor talked about: 

 1. Stronger faith comes through putting Christ first.

 2. Brighter hope comes from envisioning our eternal destiny 

3. Greater power comes by focusing on Joy

I hope we all can have stronger faith, brighter hope and experience more joy in our lives!! Love you all hope you have an amazing week!!! 

Pics: 

Elder Echols and Elder Brown, Elder Norton, Elder Williams, Sister Parr and Sister Whimmer, The beautiful LA temple, Easter came late, Meeting with President