Awesome General Conference

Well it was such a good weekend. I loved conference. It's kind of hard to believe that's the last one of the mission. We started off the weekend with tickets to one session, the Sunday p.m. one, and ended up getting into the conference center for all of them. It was pretty sweet. I was able to make it in the conference center for every session of my mission. I really liked the talk by Elder Pratt about being and doing because all of those principles not only apply to kids but to our investigators as well. There were a lot of good talks though. A lot of them seemed to be focused on marriage. So that was pretty weird. I can't apply any of those. I'm looking forward to receiving the Ensign/Liahona and studying out the messages. I can't believe that before the mission I didn't look forward to conference. It's the best time of year!

It's been a tough couple of weeks. It seems like the work has slowed down a little. It's been hard for us to get into houses. It would be pretty easy to get discouraged. But I know that the Lord didn't send me here to plant seeds, he sent me here to be successfull and to baptize. I know that as I'm prepared to receive His children He'll send them to me. Even if it means He has to bring them from other parts of the world. I'm not called to fail.

The temple service went well. We set up for the solemn assembly again. So we went up to the 4th and 5th floor of the temple. It's kind of crazy I've been able to go everytime and see these things that most people never get to see or never even know are there. And I feel like I could give a tour of it.
 
We were able to have a baptism this weekend. It was kind of a crazy one. I felt so unorganized and so rushed, there weren't a lot of members there, her family couldn't go. The time we scheduled for the baptism was already occupied by another one, so we had to move the time to eight. We were ready to cancel it. I felt bad because I wanted it to be a day she would remember, and not because it was so crazy. So we were ready just to cancel it and do it next weekend when it could be more organized and all that. So we started talking to her and explaining and we gave her the option to move the baptism to next week. And she said "no we can do it this week. I'm already here, and all those things going on is just satan trying to stop it." That kind of blew me away. The faith that she had to know she was entering into a covenant with God amazed me. That's why I love this work so much. To see the change in the lives of others and to see their faith increase is amazing. This work opens up the doors of salvation to them. It's great. Anyways our baptism ended at 9:15, and the sisters had a baptism after us and they needed someone to baptize so I was getting ready and then they had somebody else do it. But by the time we were ready to leave the church it was after 9:30, our curfew. And we hear a knock on the door and it's President Winn and his wife. And I got scared I thought we were going to get in trouble, and I didn't know how he know we were there. So we explained all of that and Sister Winn went into the baptism and we stayed out in the lobby and talked about stuff with President, joked around a little bit. It was great. But by the time we got home it was around 10:10. It was a late night. Well this week we have zone conference and I'm pretty excited for it. I can't wait.