It seems that whenever I sit down to the computer to clue you in to my life as a dedicated servant of our Lord Jesus Christ my brain goes numb and I cannot seem to recall any of the excitement that occured in the past seven days. Why is that? a stupor of thought? maybe it isn't worth sharing? Oh I don't really know- it also seems that whenever I think that, I just start rambling and then before I know it i have spouted off a total ton of nonsense that probably means nothing to most of you reading this, besides knowing that I am safe happy and well! and warm- mostly. not yesterday though. We went to a zone conference in Santa Fe. We left at 5:30am to be there in time for car inspections starting at 7:00 am. it has just in the last week gotten chilly enough in Rio Rancho to be wearing a cardigan - so that is what we all three were weraring.(thats a lie. Sister field was wearing a blazer). And then, we jump out of the car when we reach SF into the frigid 36 degree weather! yep- a coat would have been nice. gloves would have been nice. earmuffs would have been nice. tights would have been nice. It was cold. Thankfully, we parked at the end where the inspections started so after 40 minutes we could go inside to the warm chapel! Santa Fe is cold. Rio Rancho isn't yet. hopefully in this next transfer I will go back south so I won't have to worry about the cold yet!
Zone conference was pretty incredible though! And what was especially awesome - we had a Q and A seesion with President Miller where we could ask really anything. that was neat. One elder asked him about the new movie that the church has come out with "meet the mormons" and asked if we would be allowed to watch it. President Miller had a stone cold expression and replyed "what movie? I haven't heard of this. What is it? Who did you say distributed it? I don't know. I will contact the missionary department in SLC and see what they have to say about it." to which, about every mnissionary present tried to explain what this movie Meet the Mormons is - then our time was up. President ended the QandA and we moved into the next part of the conference - where we WATCHED MEET THE MORMONS! it was too funny. but probably one of those "had to be there" kind of moments. But what an inspiring movie! It makes me proud to be a mormon! I would encourage all of you to go see it! and if you already have, see it again! and take someone with you who has not seen it yet. neat. I loved it. as for the rest of zone conference, of course it was inspiring and motivating and the greatest thing ever - probably becasue the topic of the conference was something I am so paiionate about- GOALS and PLANNING! yay! and it seemed to me that a single phrase that was said more than anyother wa "this willnot only bless your life while on a mission, but will bless you for the rest of your life!" I don't know if that just stood out to me more becasue it was my last zone confernce- but it was there! and the thing that really struck me from the whole confernce was there must be a vision before there can be goals. The vision is the WHY. It is the motivating factor behind everything that you do- it is the vision that the goals acheive and the plans to fulfill the goals. It all just made so much sense! and as for me - I need a vision for my life - not just all these crazy goals that really have no point besides being exciting. I need a vision. Well right now I have one.. but ask me that in two months and you might found me dumbstruck... yikes!companionship unity for zone conference! not even planned..
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