Letter #78

Well, this week ended up being pretty eventful, especially this weekend.  Pretty much every person we planned to meet with didn't actually meet with us, so we spent most of our time walking around and trying to meet new people.

Well, the most exciting thing about this last week was stake conference.  We had President Worthen from BYU come up and speak to us, so that was pretty special.  We had a 2 hour session for the youth in our stake Saturday afternoon, and then the stake fed us all dinner, and then at 7 we had another 2 hour session, and then another 2 hour session the next morning from 10-12.  So we spent a long time there.  President Worthen was speaking for the entire youth session, which was almost entirely spent in Q&A format.  A lot of my notes from that section don't make much sense, but I think that session was good.  The adult session after that was probably the best.  President Worthen shared a story from Sheri Dew, who wanted to try out for the girl's basketball team at BYU, but didn't because she got too intimidated by her competition.  After she told that story the first time, the coach from that year, who had been coaching women sports at BYU for 42 years said that that year in that sport, she was 1 person short of a full roster, and that was the only time in her entire career that had happened.  I don't remember the point of that story, but it was kinda painful how he told it.  And then somehow, there was this overarching theme in the conference, where all the speakers kept bringing up the fact that time doesn't exist in eternity.  But the actual theme from the first presidency was supposed to be hastening the work of salvation.  The Sunday session started with the stake president saying that most of us would probably be offended by his talk, so we all knew right away that it was going to be a good one.  Basically, he told us all that we need to do a better job of observing the Sabbath.

Saturday morning I got to go back to Poulsbo for a baptism!  That was super exciting, and it reminded me how much I miss Poulsbo, especially my ward and district over there.  It was probably the best baptism of my mission too.  Everything was super organized and well done.  We also had interviews with our mission president, which was fairly uneventful, except that it was my second to last one.

Well, I am about out of time now, but I love you all!  Bye