Conference

Hello everyone. How was your week? Good. Mine was good too. I'm still lovin Providence. It is a really cool place. I would NEVER want to live here other than as a missionary, but it's a cool place to be. haha. I have come to realize that being a Zone Leader takes a lot of time out of regular missionary work. We do lots of phone calls and lots of extra planning on top of weekly planning for our area, and all that stuff. But, it's fun being able to get to know the other Elders and Sisters better. I'm enjoying it thus far. There aren't a whole lot of stories to tell this week other than that we have one investigator with a baptismal date. He is the son of one of the members in our ward that was baptized relatively recently. He is 9 years old, and is really excited to get baptized. So we get to teach him and hopefully he'll be baptized on the 16th. Cool.

So conference was pretty awesome. I loved all the talks. I felt like this conference was pretty memorable for a lot of reasons. One of those reasons is definetely the announcement of the second Provo temple! That was SO surprising. Totally blew my mind. haha. I realy loved Elder Christofferson's talk about repentance and forgiveness. I thought I learned a lot from his talk. I also really liked Elder Ballard's talk about the name of the Church. I am so glad that he talked about that cause after last conference when President Packer talked about that, I was kinda confused about why we even had mormon.org. But Elder Ballard did a good job clearing up that confusion. I loved the part when he proclaimed that no polygamists, or other fundamentalist groups are a part of our Church. That part was cool. So basically conference was awesome, like it always is. It's weird to think that next conference, I'll be home. huh. Speaking of that, today's my 20 month mark. Crazy, eh? Oh yeah, I saw Caleb in the choir for the Priesthood session. That was cool. I got all excited and wanted to tell everyone that I knew him, but then I realized that nobody else knows him, and they probably wouldn't care all that much if I told them anyway. haha.

What were some of your favorite talks or insights from conference? Hopefully that'll be a good excuse to send me a letter or email for next week. Gives ya something to talk about.

Oh I just thought of something else that was cool. Yesterday in between sessions, we were wondering what we were going to eat for lunch cause we aare out of food at our place. One of our cambodian members (one of the 4 or 5) called us and told us to come to the Khmer temple to get some food. So we headed over there. I didn't even know there was a Khmer temple in Providence. But we got there, and it was a huge party for some reason. We got some food, and I got to talk to a few of the people there. It was pretty cool. Definitely gave me some hope that we can do something with the Cambodian population here. My biggest hope comes from the fact that we actually have some active Cambodian Priesthood holders here. That has been the challenge I've faced my whole mission. But we have some here, and they know lots of friends that are less active or non members so hopefully things will start to pick up soon. I'm excited for it.

Ok well, I think that's all I can think of to write for this week, I think. I hope that you all have a wonderful week. Ok love y'all! Bye.

Love,
Elder Hammer