Letter and Pictures - Week 88

Dear Family,

     It's been a fun eventful week with General Conference! Wasn't it great?! I guess it always is :) This week was long because of the excited anticipation for conference. We began teaching Kelvin this week. He is awesome and very prepared. He has a story similar to Joseph Smith where his parents are a part of different religions and it's made him feel confused by it. He has been around to many other different places and is searching. He has really opened up to us and the gospel. He told us that he feels he may have ended his search and may stop here. He has had these questions of the soul that he has had for his whole life and using the Book of Mormon we were able to help answer them all in such a short time. He was amazed. He is intrigued by the Book of Mormon and knows it is powerful. He has began his study of it and he also came to conference this weekend and was busily taking notes of it. He loved it. We didn't yet get to talk to him to much about it because he had to leave right after the session but he was so happy and had the brightest smile on his face there. It was a joy to see his joy. 

     It was a beautiful conference. What stood out to me from it was the talk by Elder Rasband on quickly following the promptings from the Holy Ghost. I've been working a lot on seeking personal revelation and recognizing and following the promptings as soon as they come and so that talk stood out to me. I'm looking forward to being able to go back and really study the great talks that were given. 

     We saw Lorraine several times. We taught here a couple different lessons about the plan of salvation. She has been doing a lot on her own. It's great! She takes her books with her everywhere and has been doing research. She wrote a question about covenants at church and went a looked it up and she also looked up repentance and now she knows. She didn't come to the conference this weekend unfortunately because she was with her family. She had her thoughts on the conference and was feeling guilty she didn't come. We touched on repentance when we went by to follow up with how she is doing and she is for sure coming next week to church. We are going to help her get the talks so she can watch them. 

     We saw Meredith and after talking about the book of mormon extended a date for baptism. She said she would try for the date but still wasn't fully committed yet. She just needs time. She didn't come to the conference and when we also went by she felt really bad she didn't come. We will do the same for her as with Lorraine.  Rodney said he was going to come this weekend but for some reason he didn't show. We think something might have come up that prevented him from being there but we don't know. He is still doing awesome. He is now finished with first Nephi :) 

     Ulanda came to conference. We were able to see her this week and talk to her about the restoration and remind her about when she first came to know the truths of the restoration and when she was baptized. It was good and I guess it helped since she kept her commitment and came to conference which she enjoyed. Patrick surprised us as he was able to make it to one of the sessions. He had to leave right after too so we didn't get to talk to him too much except over the phone but he thought all of the talks were really good especially the one President Uchtdorf gave on fears. We set up a time to go and see him this week. 

     It's been a great week. I loved it. I'm finding a lot of joy in doing this great work :) I can really feel that this gospel is true. I find myself really gaining a deeper and stronger connection between me and my Father in Heaven as I fervently pray each day and communicate with Him. I know He hears and answers each of our prayers with great love. I feel that He is there. I feel that He is listening I am grateful for all that He does for me. I love you all and am really grateful that I have such a wonderful, loving family!

Love,

Elder King

General Conference Weekend!  You can't have conference without a big conference breakfast :) Elder Anderson made some french toast with bananas, nutella, and passionfruit juice. We watched conference at the chapel. On Sunday we went to the Herrington's for a nice lunch provided by them. It was really nice of them and it was really good. Ulanda came to conference and she came at just the right time because she came late but as soon as she got there the speaker said something that really spoke to her. Patrick, Kelvin, Sister Jones, and the Sobers also came. Sister cadet and many of the members watched from home.

Today we played volleyball for pday :) It was fun as always!