January 20, 2014

I had a whole day with a British sister this week, sister Maynard, and it was really fun(: but she says she doesn't watch any of the British shows I watch, she watches American shows that I never watch, and she taught me some British words. Did Daddy serve in Leeds,  that is where she lives. It was fabulous being senior companion. Just for a day to test it out, but it was a good day getting to be the one who had the stuff planned out and deciding to go to work and do what we're supposed to, and sitting in a lesson, actually being in control of the lesson, and seeing how I can help make the teaching unified.

We also had interviews with President and Sister Jenkins this week.It was just nice in general to meet with him because he's a great guy. They inspected our car, so we had to wax Riley. For a day though we had to drive around with half of the car buffed because our vehicle director wanted to do an experiment with the amount of time you leave the wax on to see if it made it work better the longer it stay. We were his guinea pigs. It was weird.... 

BUT (...if you buy four complatos) we got to go the the templllleeee!!! Squeee<3.I Iike the temple. And we saw the new new video! It's really, just grand. I love parts of this one better and parts of the old new one too. But just being in the celestial room and everything is my favorite. I wish we went every week!

But we get to go to the open house soon! Two days in a row!!:D the 4th and 5th, first with Devin and his mom and then with a group of 50 nonmembers from a ward member's work. Idk why we aren't hosting anymore, the big cahoonas in charge just decided they had enough people doing it already. Tis ok!

So had stake conference this weekend!! Oh my goodness it was the coolest one I've ever been to! They had people from the congregation stand up and answer questions (of course Devin, gets up and says the most profound statement a 17 year old,  not to mention convert of 3 weeks, can say, and challenges everyone to do their missionary work more) and showed clips of Elder Holland speaking, had us sing Lead Kindly Light. and made a video of us missionaries in an interview so people in the stake can know us personally and pray for us by name and trust us and work with us because NOW is the time to step up our game and not sit around waiting for other people to do the work, we have to carry the yoke equally to get this gospel spread forth! It was fun, Sundays session was good too, about the youth and an investigator spoke and it was all just really powerful. I think things are going to step up, and we're going to really try and have members out with us every single day, even if it's just going out knocking on doors of potentials and former and less actives.  Some members are just fabulous. Some lady after stake conference came out to our ward mission leader, and asked how old Devin was. When she found out that he was 17 she offered to pay for his mission, because she got a distinct impression that she needed to help someone with that. He's been really concerned about paying for a mission but he's pretty much going to be the best missionary in the whole world and really has to go. We found this out and about died!? Seriously, we've been talking with him about this multiple times trying to convince him not to worry about the payment, that it will all work out because of his righteous desire. He's the best. Oh man, we loooove Devin.

So yeah.....I hope I'm not forgetting anything too important from the week. I loooove youuuu!

Got to play with this little girl today and a Westie! Best day ever!