Monday, April 6, 2015

GENERAL AND ZONE CONFERENCES

I am glad to hear that her funeral was so great! I love that there was eclairs, the oreo cookies and haggandaz hahaha. She would have been so proud! But everything here is going great though. The gospel truly does bless our family so much! It is crazy because I have felt the joy and comfort of the Gospel so much!  I know I will see her again!

And yes we got the easter packages, thank you for sending the shirt and the tie! Please no more candy though, we are still loaded up from Christmas even so all of the stuff from Valentines and St Patricks is just piling up so we have way more candy than we would eat in our whole missions hahaha! 

This week we had a fantastic week though! We went to all of the zone conferences so we got to go to all of the different parts of the mission. We went to Buffalo Grove which is the northern suburbs and we also got to go down to Indiana. I think it was my second or third time going to those places ever haha. My favorite part of all the conferences was this week on Wednesday when we got to go to the Chicago zone conferences which is the stake of the south side.  On Tuesday night I was thinking that I really wanted to see Karina who is a recent convert in Midway.  I was thinking that I could text the elders in my last area and to tell them to tell her to come to the church or to maybe see if we could stop by after the meeting and say hi to her. I really wanted to see her but then I kept thinking oh she's not in our area anymore and we will be busy so I just felt like we shouldn't text her. That night though I just prayed that she would know how much that I love her and her family! Then the next day when we got to the meeting and when it was lunch time we walk into the gym and they announce that the Midway Ward was the one who provided the lunch. It was amazing because Karina came and I also got to see a lot of the other members! It was honestly one of the best moments ever! So after lunch I got to talk to Karina for like 20 minutes and she is doing so well! She just barely went to the temple and she Loved it! I told her though that she answered my prayers by being there and she talked about how it was a crazy thing that she ended up there! The Sunday before the meeting they said they just need men to help serve so she was going to offer but then thought she couldn't but then on Tuesday she was talking to the relief society president and was like are you sure that you don't need anybody to help and then she was like oh yes! So she ended up coming and it made me so happy!!  She just made my week so much better! I miss her family so much!

Our area is really starting to pick up also! We had six investigators come to conference this weekend so that was huge! Conference was great as well! We watched most of the sessions at the Foster building but we watched one at the house of a member named Stein Ingerbretsen, he is friends with John Ellis and his uncle is the doctor named Rich who is friends with Leslie.

It was sweet because we brought one of the members in Chi 4 who is YSA to a lesson with us and she invited our investigator to come watch conference at the Foster building because her family was doing something after conference there so we got invited too! :) they had a bunch of food between sessions and it was one of the ladies birthdays who we call Obispa. In the Hispanic tradition they always push your face in the cake but she snuck around it so one of the Elders went to get her with a plate of whip cream and he got her so she came to get him back after and he reached for him and he blocked it and so the whole plate of cream went onto my companion’s suit and everyone just started dying laughing! It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen!!

I love Elder Zacher a lot though! We are working so well together and we are such great friends! We are loving working together and starting to see lots of success!
It was a great week this week and I am loving being here! Have a great day today mom!

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