I LOVE General Conference!

Hey everyone!

This week was wonderful....I just LOVE general conference! We got to watch all 4 sessions and it was so amazing. I loved President Monson's talk on gratitude, the talk on living a consecrated life (I think it was Elder Christofferson?), and then of course Elder Uchtdorf's talk...he's so funny. I think his was something that a lot of people needed to hear, myself included: when things get rough, go back to the basics and focus on them; don't keep trying to run at full speed ahead. I really enjoyed it. It was kind of frustrating at the beginning of conference though: Saturday morning we showed up 1/2 an hour early and whoever was supposed to come and set things up didn't come. There are 3 congregations in our building and the first person to show up with a key to the projector and the TVs and everything got there 2 minutes before it was supposed to start. it took about half an hour more to set everything up, so we finally got to start conference at 12:30. It wasn't too big of a deal, except we missed which new temples were announced and I only got the closing testimony of Elder Holland...but we should be getting the Ensign next month so I guess I'll read about it then.

Also on Saturday night while the elders all went to the priesthood session, we all had a sister night! It was SO much fun...all the sister missionaries on or near the island, older and younger (so not the ones in Victoriaville or Ottawa, but about 17 or so of us) got together at the mission home and had a huge dinner together. We were supposed to bring a dessert, so we got a recipe from Elder Bourdon for an apple tart (he's a French pastry chef), but he uses grams so he tried to convert them into cups but it didn't quite work out, so we ended up having a TON of extra butter in the crust...not quite as good as his, but the other sisters didn't seem to mind :) We also played this game where each sister writes a little-known fact about themselves and then puts it in a container. Sister Kite was in charge and so she read each slip and then gave 3 names (the one of the sister who actually wrote the fact and then 2 others) and we had to guess which of all of them we thought it was. I guess if you have more time you're supposed to have each of the 3 people elaborate on the story and then guess, but we didn't have enough time for it. It was fun though...we learned that Sister Morse had art for sale in an art gallery and that Sister Kite helped the FBI catch a bank robber...crazy, eh?

The rest of the week was pretty standard...we did A LOT of finding since we were just about at our limit of how many click we could drive for the month so we spent a lot of time on the metro and bus, and that was interesting seeing as it rained nonstop all week long, but it turned out all right. one time we were on the bus, missed our stop by a LONG ways because we didn't know we had missed it and were still looking for the street name, turned around to wait for the bus going the other direction, got stopped by a train, and then ended up being almost an hour late for that Dinner appointment with our less active...but it was ok. We taught a couple of people, spent a TON of time trying to get people to conference and had about 8 people say they'd be there and then had 3 completely unexpected people show up for the last session...it was just so crazy. We'll see how this next week goes. But Elder de la Torre is back to being in our zone and I just love him...and Elder Bourdon is a great district leader. it's been a fun week :) I hope everything is going well with each of you...i love you all tons! Take care and have a great week!

Love. Sister Nicole Lindsey