We Are Called To Be Bold: General Conference WHAAAT

Oh. My. Goodness. General Conference is the best EVER!!! Maybe it's just my crazy missionary mind and being totally obsessed with the gospel and listening to people talk about it (positively), but I am entirely convinced that this was the best general conference to date!

I have come to the realization that I am a total fan girl of the prophets and apostles- I read their profiles and tape their pictures on the walls above my desk.

I was blessed to be able to listen in English- we had a separate room in the stake center that was streaming the conference in English for us North American missionaries, and lemme tell you, it was just a party. The best, most spiritual party EVER! We had cookies and brownies and cheesecake- hermana Harkins had celery and crackers with goat cheese, the weirdo-and we talked in English for two days, it totally threw me off, but it was a little sliver of how we do conference in the states- with lots of food and in ENGLISH!

I wish I could just mentally type all of the things that I loved about conference, all the revelation I received, all the love I felt, the testimony strengthening of having questions answered in conference. There is not enough time. But I just love Conference. As a missionary, inviting everyone to conference and every day testifying of the power and authority of the prophet and his apostles just made me so EXCITED! And my testimony was so strengthened by their words and their love. I love conference.

But if I had to pick favorites...I loved Elder Uchtdorf's talk on gratitude. And Elder Holland's talk on how it's hard being a disciple of Christ, but it is the way. I loved in the General Women's Conference when all the little girls sang teach me to walk in the light. Thought of my Emmy Belle and I totally teared up and all. I love Elder Eyring's Joyful face, he had a lot of joy this conference. I just love it all. I love the gospel. I love being a missionary. I love being here.

I just know that all the talks about family history and discipleship made my mom so happy, I thought of her during every single one. She is just on the same wavelength as the apostles of the Lord, that's all ;)

In other news, I am LOVING my sector and the members and our investigators and everything! There is a less active member that we found contacting on the bus this last week, explaining that these earthquakes that Chile is having have all been predicted and are recorded in the Book of Mormon, would you like a copy? Oh, if we could all be fearless like Alfio! I love it!

I have come to know that there is a church wide "bad habit" of making uncomfortable jokes about speaking in Sacrament meeting before starting your talk.

We had more practices this week for the Easter choir, and we did this awesome practice where we all spread out throughout the chapel, closed our eyes, and sang Sublime salvador (Beautiful Savior) purely by ear and in A Capella. AAAH IT WAS SO COOL! I love getting the A Capella chills. Good times, good times, high school :)

We put on a family home evening for a less active family this week, and when we passed by their house to plan the day, the wife told us that they didn't have enough chairs to support everyone that was going to come. So on the day of the family home evening, Hna Marquez and I carried 4 chairs from our house to theirs. It is amazing the things that missionaries do to help others. We carry chairs half a mile to put on the coolest FHE ever :) being a missionary is the best, most fulfilling adventure ever. I am in the palm of my Heavenly Father's Hand.

Hermana Harkins