Conference!!

Oh my lanta! Wasn't conference just absolutely amazing! I loved everything about it and I hope that you all got some things out of it. Heavenly Father truly has a plan for each of us and one way that we can just feel that love of the gospel even more was through conference this week.

This week here in the Zoo has been pretty fantastic. It has cooled down a lot. The weather here is just kind of ridiculous because it is always all over the place. It honestly just blows my mind. One day it is sweltering hot and the next is freezing cold. I love the heat and am not looking forward to winter so much.. But think. It is October so we just need to keep this weather the way it is and life will be good.

 

We picked up this new investigator named Jaylen. He is from Detroit and is here and WMU. He is 19 and agnostic. We have had a few lessons with him. WE have been talking to him just about the basics. He really has never learned anything about God but believes that there is more out there. It is actually very incredible as he keeps all the commitments we leave with them. So this last lesson we were going to recap the 1st vision and share the rest of the message of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We had just got through the great apostasy and we mentioned that after all this time of people searching to and fro for the gospel as it states in Amos, then we get to Joseph Smith but all I say was in the 1920's there was a boy who was looking for truth. He looks at us and says, "Joseph Smith Right" we smiled and said yes... He has a true desire to learn and is coming a long the path. He just has so so many questions. Hopefully he can receive his answers by the spirit. We are meeting with him again tonight and I am excited for it.

 

On  Friday we had interviews with President Brennan. The Brennan's are just so great. I love them so much. We had a wonderful conversation and asked for a whole bunch of opinions from Sister Eisert and I. We most likely will be staying together or I might be taking over the area. We will see what actually ends up happening.

 

Today's thought comes from conference. I loved every bit of conference but one thing I wanted to share was from President Uchtdorf: he talked about How do we know where to go? Are we able to feel the call of Heaven in our lives? God truly knows all, he knows when we weep, he knows us by name, he teaches us to harken to the voice of the Lord. As we do this 1. Our life will be better. 2 God will be able to use us to help other's lives be better. Remember though thtat the gospel wil not remove all of our trials. As it says in the scriptures in Ether 12 We are given weakness to make us humble which in the end will strengthen us. Don't compare ourselves to others. Be the best you that you can be.

 

I love you all and hope that you have a wonderful week!

Love Sister Milar

 

P.S. story of the week. So on Friday night it is Sports night at the KUB. We invite our investigators and nonmember friends to come and play ultimate Frisbee. This is great for a few different reasons. One it is a very happy environment and everyone feels welcome, two people invite all their friends, three it is fun!. So we kill three birds with one stone.  This week we were playing. We had broken up into smaller groups. My team was 4 girls and 1 boy. We were killing it. (yes the girls were killing all the guy teams) Well Elder Merritt, one of the zone leaders, loves Frisbee and is pretty good at it. We were playing against his team and keeping up really well, they always win. The score got to a tie at 10's, next point wins. So here we go we are playing and the other teams are just waiting for us to finish. Well the Frisbee starts coming towards me... except it is over my head and it is for the other team. I know I need to block it  or Elder Merritt will come out of no where and catch it. So I take a good jump up and barely reach it and swat it down as he tries to catch it and misses. I BLOCKED IT! VICTORY!! We won that game and we were all so happy haha The end! I hope you have a great day :)

Purple Sunday!!