Super Bowl

October 8, 2012

So I remember hearing from missionaries that General Conference is like the Super Bowl for missionaries, and I totally get it now. I LOVE CONFERENCE! Every single talk really just was the best thing ever! Elder Holland's talk was my favorite and I just loved everything about it. I stopped taking notes because I just wanted to listen. SO powerful! I wish I could watch it again but alas, I will just have to wait until next month to get it in an Ensign. Speaking of Ensign, can you send it to me when it comes out? We get one per companionship and that will just not work because I will be MARKING IT UP! And to be even more demanding...can you take it to Kinko’s and put a clear plastic cover on the front and back and spiral bind it? HAHA. I know I know I am so high maintenance. I am going to do it to my other ones today because I use them so much that the pages are starting to fall out. :) Oops. I just love them!

The weather dropped down here this week too. I am actually wearing a jacket today, which is WONDERFUL! It made me feel right at home again! I can't wait for that to be a regular occurrence. But now I am in the library with Texans who don't understand cold so they are BLASTING the heater. Ah well, it's just cozy.

We have interviews with President this week so I will ask him about when I can talk to David. That will be fun. I can't believe that my little brother is going on a mission so soon!

That announcement about missionaries was probably funnier here than it was there. We were watching it at the chapel and no one goes to the Saturday morning session so it was all 26 missionaries and then a few other random members but we all just went into shock about the announcement. It was actually quite funny. Everyone just kept saying no....no way.... Oh man. I think this will be interesting. I think it will make a huge influx of Elders soon but then it might die down because most of them would have been going anyways. I think this will make the number of Sisters going go WAY up. Very cool! We went to Texas Roadhouse for lunch as a district between sessions so I missed the Elder Holland press conference, but I heard he answered a bunch of questions about it. We were talking and decided it is interesting because in our lifetimes, we haven't ever seen something like this: a major change in the church. Very cool to be on a mission when that was announced. The thing that gets me now is that David's friends that are girls can go out now too!

This week, the work has been going well! We have just been working, working, working! I wish I had more to say but when we just work, work, work all the time, our stories become the same. :) O new one yesterday: found a dead cat. Totally had just gotten hit by a car and its eye popped out. SUPER gross! That is pretty much it. :)

Well, I love you all! We have to go to the store now to buy jalapenos. A member is teaching us how to make something yummy. P.S. In case you were wondering, yes, como comida picosa!

LOVE YOU!

Kate