Conference cheers!

I was sitting in the office at the Joseph Smith farm watching conference on the senior couples laptop and waiting for a tour when President Monson announced the change in missionary age. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since!! I was so happy I cried :) There are two really amazing girls in the Canandaigua ward that are both 19 and want to serve missions so bad! When they were home from BYU for the summer they taught with us several times a week, and so instantly we thought about them.{and I also thought about friends and cousins that this will effect} One of them is turning in her papers now and putting her availability as January! I am so so excited for the huge blessing this is to allow more youth to go on missions -especially sisters. It made me think about what huge desire I had to go on a mission when I was 19, and how that desire died for a time, but thankfully returned and I decided to go. I am so grateful for my mission and also that now the opportunity to spread the gospel will be more available! yea! yea! yea!

 

I guess that will also cut down on the number of tours I take that ask if the only reason I came on a mission was because I couldn't get married :)

 

Conference was really great for me, because it gave even more of a desire to work so hard this last week, and also it helped me face that I am going home. I have been pretty upset about this, but conference helped me to see that there are good things to come and that I can continue to increase my faith and serve when not on a mission. The lord knows how to teach us things that we need to hear when we need to hear them.

 

Irene is doing awesome. We are reading the Book of Mormon with her. We told her about a new investigator that we had found earlier that day {his name is Jon, he is really cool and also doesn't have any knee caps} and she told us to bring her with us to teach him, "I'll tell him all about the Book of Mormon." She is so cute :) She was called as a visiting teaching coordinator and is so excited about that and loves to do her visiting teaching. She is also so proud to show us her tall cup of ice water that replaced her ice tea every time we come.

 

We contacted a family we had met earlier and the mom told us as we were walking up to the door that 2 of her children were home sick. The daughter said she had a skin virus called 'cellulite'. Haha thank goodness she didn't go to school!!! I didn't know that was contagious.... she might be staying home from school for a long time :)

 

It is going to be a great week! I will probably get to email a little next week. I love you all! Thanks so much for your prayers, encouragement, support and love. I am so grateful for the good family I have.

Love,

Sister L