General Conference!

My top 3 favourite were Jeffery Holland's talk about the sacred role of motherhood and how no love comes closer to the Savior's than a mother's love for her child. And then Vern Stanfil's talk about how sometimes we find ourselves in darkness and we can't make it through the tunnel just with our own light. We need to rely on the Savior's light to guide us and also the light of others. And then Elder Cook's talk about Bristol (which is the zone I'm in haha) I was actually in Bristol when I was watching that talk. But he said we need to be "ship shape and Bristol fashion." He talked about how to protect ourselves from the unseen danger of Satan and how Satan can hit us with unexpected temptations or trials at any time so we always need to have ourselves prepared. He talked about righteous self-control which I loved!

Watching conference as a missionary is so stinkin cool. I felt a lot more in tune with what was being said and I picked out some different things specifically for investigators but so much was for me. I need to continue to strengthen my own conversion to Christ so I can help others come unto Him. I loved the analogy by Elder Maynes about centering our clay because I love ceramics and it made me think a lot about myself. It's so hard to make a bowl on a potter's wheel if the clay isn't literally perfectly centered. If it's even the slightest bit off, the bowl will have imperfections and air bubbles.  It's funny because we had zone training with the mission president this weekend and I went on splits with the zone leaders. I was talking to my companion about how I feel like the mission wants us missionaries to be kind of like robots. They want to to always be exactly on time and say all the right things all the time and just be perfect. But I realized that in order to be 100% obedient we must have our lives centered on Jesus Christ or when we are obedient we will just feel like robots. We need to do things out of love for the Savior not just because we are told to. I'm not sure if any of that made sense haha.