District Conference

Almost forgot to write this this week! Sorry if its short and makes no sense. This week we had district (stake) conference. One of the blessings of being in europe is that you get 70s to come more often. We had a 70 come from france and he taught us about unity and how to strengthen the district. not grow it, strengthen it. interesting idea, but true. we have to be strong or we can´t really grow. but he said that we should have FHE, and that we should invite our friends and help them feel the spirit. and the missionaries. he said that he and his family are very busy, but they have the missionaries over for 2 FHE¨s every month. He said the key is being well organized. be where you need to be on time. (its a spanish culuture thing to be really late).

President Deere came too and also talked about misionary work and FHE¨s. I can really see the leaders of the chruch trying to get families to strenghten themselves through FHE, family prayers and family scripture study. Because if we aren´t strong as a family, how can we help someone else strengthen thier faith? And once we´re on the right path, share, share, share! There´s been such a big focus on misionary work in the church here, its coming from everyone, not just hte missionaries.

Its cooled down a lot here too, so we´ve been walking around in the rain more. We don´t have an umbrella and my jacket dosen´t have a hood so last night i pulled my scarf up over my head to keep it warm and we walked under the patios so we stayed a lot dryer. but of course wtiht the rain, no one is outside. and it was late enough that the older people were in bed and everyone else was putting thier kids to bed, so we didn´t really have anyone to visit. so we were walking around and joked about teaching the stray cats that were huddled under cars watching us. they were pretty much the only ones outside this late. cats and missionaries. Thats pretty much how it goes.

Love you all so much! Don´t forget what you learned in general conference!