FHE: We played sardines at the stake center for FHE. Jessie was the first to hide and I was the first to find her. Curtis was the best player though when it came to leading others astray, he came in to hide with us, but then Sister Richards came in. He got right up and said we weren't in there and went out to lead her to look on the other side of the building. He then came running back in once he was away from people. It was a lot of fun.
Sisters Conference: We flew down to Anchorage at 7:40am Tuesday morning. The whole day was spent like a zone conference. They had some senior couples give training's in the morning and most of it was talking about our self-worth and how beautiful we are. It was like a session of women's conference. Each of the STLs had get-to-know-you games and also to give training. This is where the meat was. We all centered it around Christ. We had a panel discussion with President and Sister Toone which was really fun and ended the evening with a testimony meeting. Sister Richards has trouble sleeping so we asked if we could sleep in a separate room in the mission home. We got to sleep in the General Authority room. Anytime a General Authority comes from Church Headquarters they sleep in this room. We were able to get sleep while all the sisters sleeping downstairs didn't go to bed until after midnight or 1:00am, if they got any sleep at all. The next morning we were able to go to the temple which was really nice. Because we are so far away up in Fairbanks we aren't able to go every other transfer so that was a real treat. Afterwards we changed into p-day clothes and played in the gym for a little bit waiting for pizza to be delivered. After lunch we went on a hike closer to Girdwood on your way if you were to drive down to Soldotna. That was fun and we all took a ton of pictures. I think that is what caused my iPad to go kaput. The next day my iPad couldn't keep a charge and the next thing I knew it was dead. It is getting looked at right now so hopefully they can fix it before transfers.
DJ: We had a lesson with him on Thursday with Rachel and a friend of hers up from Utah came as members present. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and asked if he would be baptized. He said that he doesn't want to rush into things and wants to make sure that he does all he can to find the church for him. But as of a few minutes ago he texted us out of the blue saying "Sooo ... how about getting me baptized." OH MY GOODNESS !!!! Such a tender mercy right now!!
Exchanges: We spent Friday having a lot of lessons. William (a less active we have been trying to get a hold of) texted us back and agreed to meet with us. Right now is not a good time for him with coming back to church or even reading the Book of Mormon so hopefully he will be prepared by The Lord for later to return to the fold. We had a lesson with Mack which went well. He said it is the highlight of his week to have us come and teach him. We are soon going to just pass the torch over to his Home Teachers to keep visiting him. Later we had a lesson with Dalen and Ethan present which went well and it was a lot easier to chit chat with them this time. We had exchanges that night and I went to North Pole to be with Sister Langford who came out on the mission the same time I did but we just have never served around each other. It was a lot of fun. We did service to take down a health fair that happened that weekend and I was able to take some booklets home about exercise and eating healthy. We had a lesson with one of their investigators and he is so elect. He was making analogies with us about how the Gospel of Jesus Christ can be related to like working out and other things. He agreed to be baptized, but wants to wait for his Mormon girlfriend to come visit for Christmas to do it while she is there. We helped to celebrate Elder Voss's birthday and then we went to the adult session of stake conference which was really good. President Toone came and spoke and he was amazing. He is a great speaker and is super funny.
Zone Conference: We had interviews with President and he basically told me my transfer call. I won't spoil it now as I know the majority of the call but not everything so next week's post will tell you what is going to happen. We had zone conference. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed the training's. We had our talent show afterwards and Sister Richards and I went first. We pretended we were doing a singing act. I start to sing and Sister Richards doesn't so we get mad at each other and start to stage fight. It went really well and the zone was eating it up. It was a lot of preparation that we had to do for this, including getting a wrestling mat to borrow and getting it all lined up to look like we were actually fighting. At the end Sister Richards kills me by snapping my neck and we worked with the zone leaders to twist a plastic bottle at the right time for the sound effect. We had a lot of laughs and I think everyone had a lot of fun. I was super exhausted later that evening. For FHE we did pumpkin carving. Rachel and I worked together to carve one. She took out the guts and the pieces that needed to come out as I carved the witch design. It didn't look like much in the light but when we put a flashlight in it in the dark it turned out pretty nice.
Sent from ALASKA!
Sister Shelley
Sent from ALASKA!
Sister Shelley
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