It's been a great week, this weekend was amazing! Sister So and I
are totally shifting gears and spending our time working with the
members. The youth invited us to a missionary night they had this week
for mutual, and it was so fun! We got to talk about missions and how to
prepare and what we do and answered a lot of their questions! Then we
made pies afterwards, it was super fun!
This
week was stake conference, and I'm not sure who I told already, but
President Nelson and Elder Hallstrom both came out for it! This year is
the 75th anniversary of the DC stake, so they had a special fireside on
Friday night, then conference on Saturday and Sunday. SO. GOOD. We were
on shift at the VC Friday night, so we didn't get to go to the special
fireside. Earlier that day, we had been talking about how cool it would
be if President Nelson came in to see the temple model, since he was at
the stake center like 300 feet away. Friday night it was pretty slow,
there were a few families there. We were talking to a couple other
sisters, when we heard the door open. The room went totally silent, and
we turned around just in time to see President Russell M. Nelson walking
in the door, followed by Elder Hallstrom (Presidency of the 70), and
some security guys. You could literally feel the spirit hit you when he
walked in, the room was silent within seconds, and everyone turned
around to see what was up. President Nelson looked around, then WALKED
OVER TO US. He said, "Hi, I'm Brother Nelson!" (The most humble man on
this planet). Then he went to all the sisters, and shook our hands, and
we introduced ourselves. It was the most amazing experience!! He has the
bluest eyes, and shaking his hand I thought my heart was going to
explode the spirit was so strong! After that, he went and found Elder
Fowler (they're best friends!), and looked at the temple model. He was
only there for like 10 minutes, but the spirit was buzzing the rest of
the night. Basically the best thing ever. I met him again on Saturday
night before Conference started, I got to shake his hand again! SO
COOL.
Stake Conference was incredible, I feel
like I got just as much, if not more, revelation than general
conference. I'll attach some cool facts below!
Some fun facts from Conference:
-9 apostles came from the DC stake
-Ezra Taft Benson was the first stake president here
-President Nelson has 10 children, 52 grandchildren, and 91 great grandchildren. WHUT
-25% of missionaries are sisters
-In 2 years, we went from having 58,000 to 88,000 missionaries worldwide
-When Elder Hallstrom was born, there were only 8 temples. They just dedicated the 148th temple this weekend!
On
Saturday night, President Nelson talked a little bit about the Book of
Mormon and the atonement. In the King James Version of the Bible, the
word "atonement", in any of its forms (atone, atoning, atonement, etc),
is only found ONCE: Romans 5:11. In the Book of Mormon, it's found
THIRTY NINE TIMES. That's a big deal! The Book of Mormon contains the
"fullness of the gospel'" because it teaches about the atonement. I
absolutely know that's true, and have come to understand Jesus Christ
and the atonement through the Book of Mormon. It is a true book, and
will change your life. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is the true church, and we are led by a living prophet and apostles!
That's something that I'm so beyond grateful for, and know to be true
with all my heart!
I love you all so much! Have the best Thanksgiving and eat lots for me! :)
Sending lots of hugs (especially this week),
Sister Wilson
衛愛兒
Every Sunday, they have all the converts over, and any nonmembers they know, and have Sunday dinner.
SO COOL. he is the sweetest, funniest, most humble man on the planet.
Eyes dilated ;)
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