Conference Is Coming

General Conference is when we get a chance to see the prophet, President Monson, address the World. We believe we have a prophet, a mouthpiece for God and what the prophet says is the word of God.

This week has been packed full. Starting with something funny that happened on Sunday. Once a month we have what's called Testimony meeting. It's when anyone is free to go up and tell the congregation things they know to be true or spiritually uplifting experiences. The Bishop of one ward went first and told everyone time was limited and to keep them to a max of 3 min. It started out with a few great ones and then an old guy came up. He spent over 10 min just talking about different sicknesses he's had over his life. Eventually the Bishop had to stand up and whisper in his ear that there was a long line behind him of people who wanted to talk. He looked at the line and said, "I guess I'm getting kicked off, I'll have to finish my story next time. Goodbye."  And walked off stage. It was pretty funny, but pretty much killed the great spirit that was in the room.

On a good note, we had 4 baptisms this saturday! It was amazing. The first was a studly kid, Isaiah, who brought his friend to the baptism.

Now the friend wants to be baptized. And Isaiah is getting all his siblings to bring their friends to church. He's an amazing missionary.

Then we had Hubbie get baptized.

Hubbie has been recovering from alcholism and decided when he got a DUI that he needed to turn his life around. He's the most humble person I know. His biggest obstace was his family. Because of the drinking, his marrige was not the strongest. None of his family were members or religious. And they did not support him any step of the way. They told him they weren't even going to be at the baptism. But during the service they walked in as Hubbie was about to go up and get dunked. They made it! They even stayed after and got to know everyone. Wether they want to admit it or not, they all felt the spirit and know Hubbie did a great thing.

Next was Dakoda.

His Grandparents were his support group. His mom and older sister didn't go to church at all. But they did go to the baptism, which was great to see. We even got a pic with the whole family before the baptism.

The last baptism was another greats story. Rylee had her dad baptize her.

Rylee's dad grew up in the church, but left it and didn't do anything bad. Just wasn't religious at all. As we've taught Rylee, we've been able to teach her parents a lot as well. Rylee's mom isn't a member, but was the most supportive person to her, and very excited to see her daughter get baptized. (We're still working on the mom, she went to church this Sun!) It was tremendous to see Rylee's Dad progress so much. To get the Priesthood in order to baptize her. To see his life change as he's comming back into the church. This has been a great week.

This has been an unbelieveable 6 months. I love it out here.

(so you don't think it is all work and no play, Ryan sent this and said it was his ninja look)

Keep improving each day,

Elder Pearson