Letter #28

So, this week was pretty great.  It was pretty full anyway.  We had a zone conference, and exchange, and stake conference for the whole state (also Alaska.  It was one of those broadcast ones).  So yeah.  Basically, we've been in meetings all week.

This was my first zone conference in the Northern Conference, so that was pretty cool.  We met up in the Mullinex building in Bremerton with the Port Angeles, Silverdale, Bremerton, and Gig Harbor zones, and spent 7 hours in trainings.  So that was a long time.  But we talked about all sorts of good stuff.  And I don't really remember what that was, because I didn't bring my notebook with me, and it's definitely blending together with the 6 hours of stake conference that I went to.  But we got to see a bunch of other missionaries, and we all ended up on the blog, so it was a party.

We spent a bunch of time this week inviting less actives and part member families out to stake conference, and we got a couple of people to show up!  So that was pretty exciting.  Robert D. Hales and L. Tom Perry spoke to us.  From Salt Lake, but it was still cool.

Some missionaries from my zone ran the Tacoma Narrows bridge this morning.  That was fun, because we were on the other side of it this time compared to the last time I ran it.  It was super foggy this morning, so it was a super epic run.  Like you probably could only see about 100 feet in front of you.

I saw a bald eagle out my back window the other day.  There are a lot of bald eagles around here.  Also, I smell the ocean every day when I leave my apartment.  Gig Harbor is a pretty nice area.

So for the priesthood leadership portion of stake conference, we did breakout sessions.  And so the missionaries and ward mission leaders talked about some things about how working with the members is, and how it should be, and he guy leading the discussions showed us this pretty cool pyramid diagram about a behavioral pattern that shows experiences on the bottom that leads to beliefs that leads to actions that leads to results at the top.  And so I don't really know what my purpose in telling about this was, but we talked about beliefs, and it was interesting, I guess.

Well, things are getting rainy here again.  Which means that we aren't seeing much of the sun anymore for a while.  And people are saying that we are going to get more snow than normal this year, because our summer was so nice.  And for the most part, everything is going just fine.  I miss you all! I hope things are going well!