Confirmations and Conference Explained

Things are going well over here in Africa.

General Conference. I have to admit that I am very jealous that you all got to watch it. I was odd knowing that this past weekend you were all home watching conference. And we were here in Africa just a normal weekend, normal Sunday. We had the option to watch it live, well the ward had the option. But they decided that we should watch the recording because it would be more likely that people would come if it was a recording. Because if we watched it live, it would have been at odd times. So we are watching it recorded on the 26th and 27th. I am super excited. I love conference. I can't wait! It will be good to hear what all of the General Authorities have to say. And to learn from everything they are going to talk about.

Next. We have totally changed our eating habits. It's great. Hard. But great. We decided we are going to eat healthy. So I haven't had fast food this whole week! We have been eating a TON of vegetables, fruits, and basically no sugar and no pop. We have a lot of salad. You kind of get sick of it. We will need to find new healthy options! But it feels good. We have also been running. We wake up and go do sprints and stuff at our complex. There is a rugby field that we planned to go to. We went there the first day and got eaten alive by mosquitoes! I had twenty three bites! Haha! So now we just stay on the road next to the field! It sucks to run, but it makes you feel so much better! Like the days we haven't been able to go, like Sunday, I find myself missing it. And looking forward to it the next morning. Who knows why? I hate running! Haha! But it has been good.

Friday was great. We got to go to the temple. They try to do a temple trip once a transfer. So we didn't go last transfer, but they made sure we could go this transfer. It was so nice. I love the temple! The spirit was so strong! As it always is when you go to the temple. It was so nice. A good time to uplift myself and get back to centre. Ya know? If that makes sense.

I can't think of too much else that happened. Like really. This week wasn't too eventful.

Oh! The confirmations! Haha! That was eventful! Haha! So yesterday, we had five confirmations in our ward. I was asked to confirm Sheila, she and her two girls were baptised. It was nerve racking, but everything went well. I was really nervous that I would mess up and have to do it again! But I didn't! A successful first confirmation is now under my belt! Ha! Elder Wilkinson confirmed her older daughter Phatty, and Brother John, the ward mission leader confirmed the youngest, Mphumi. And then the bishop confirmed his niece, and Dmitri. It was great.

We still have five people on date. It used to be ten, but with all of the baptisms, they went down! But five is still great! We have just been having a struggle getting all of them to see the importance of coming to church. I mean, they act like they see the importance. But then they don't come! It is so frustrating! We don't know what to do! We have one girl that comes to church every week. So that's good. And then a lady that comes every other week because she works every other Sunday. And then the other three have been doing great with lessons, but they don't come to church! But we are really going to work on that with all of them this week!

The weather is still nice here. It still feels like summer to me! The days are still hot, it cools off a lot at night. Which is good. But it is still hot. During the days it feels like the weather hasn't even changed! But it is funny to hear all of the African people talking about how they can feel that winter is coming! I mean, come on! The weather hasn't even changed! Hah! But we will see. Supposedly it gets pretty cold here in the winter!

It is good to hear from you. I love you so much! I hope that everything goes well for everyone at home! Have fun over spring break! I love you so much! So so so much!