Hey everyone! This week was awesome!
On Tuesday, we went and helped a less engaged member pick tomatoes. She had so many!! It was a fun time. Then we had lunch and we contacted a bunch of people. We had dinner with a sweet couple, then a lesson and went to the addiction recovery class with her.
We had follow up MLC on Wednesday. We had an awesome lesson with our friend Michelle who is getting baptized next week! Then we visited some people and invited a ton of people to watch conference. We had a lesson with a less engaged member, then had dinner with a couple. We went to young womans and painted aprons!
Thursday was full of member messages and it was a fun! We went and visited this couple, they are both 90! Someone had said something rude to the husband and he wanted our opinion on how he should react. Old people are so funny! They asked if we'd had lunch yet, then made us ham sandwiches. We had a meeting with the zone leaders, then met with a less engaged member. She is pretty funny. She asked if we had seen this video on YouTube about how the second coming is almost here. We told her we didn't have access to youtube and she proceeded to turn it on and had us watch the entire 30 minute video. The guy is just quoting President Nelson the entire time so it was fine. Pretty funny though. We had a few good little stop by lessons and then a super fun dinner! We have an amazing returning member who has been coming to church and is working with bishop to get her temple recommend. She is the sweetest and she invited us over for dinner. We had so much fun and the food was delicious! We went on exchanges! I went to Sutherlin with Sister Budge!
Sutherlin is a fun little area. But I really love Winston! We had a good day though! We had a lesson with a guy who was an aircraft mechanic, so we had a cool conversation about that. Then we got lunch at the cutest hawaiian place! They had the best shaved ice I've ever had! Then we visited some people, invited a bunch of people to watch conference and then exchanged back! We had an amazing dinner with some more returning members! The wife grew up in the gospel but her husband did not. He joined for her and they both said that he did not join for the right reasons. He asked if we could start the lessons over and he had some good questions. Its so cool to see all these people wanting to come back to church!
Saturday was a blast! We got up and went to a members house for breakfast and the first session of conference. Then we came home and did our studies really fast, then went to another members home for lunch and the second session. We visited a few people and dropped off cookies to them. Then we went some of tmy favorite members for dinner and the final session of conference! All the talks were so good! I loved Elder Hirsts talk focused on love and Elder Kearon's talk on joy!
On Sunday, we went to the Bishop's house for cinnamon rolls and bacon and watched the first session. Then we ate lunch, did some studies and then went to one of our new members for the second session. It was so fun! I love hearing from everyone! President Nelson is so cool! I definitely dont wanna live till 100 though. We had dinner with our ward mission leader. We figured out all the details for the baptism happening on Saturday. We also met with our relief society president.
I'm not sure what we're doing for pday. It should be pretty chill and relaxed. Hopefully it'll be fun!
General Conference was a big reminder that I should focus on becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ first and everything else will get figured out. It also reminded me that this is a gospel of joy!! I hope you were all able to get answers to your questions during conference!
I love you all!hope you have a great week! Find a way to share something from conference with someone😁
Love,
Sister O'Barr
