Missed the Parade... - November 14, 2016

Originally she didn't send any pictures this week, but I talked her into sending a selfie before she had to sign off of the computer-Mom

                    Hello and happy Monday friends and family! Before I forget, an important PSA: Please clean your iPad case as often as possible so you don't clean it just when someone you know hasn't washed their hands since they went to the bathroom holds your iPad case and you see WAY too much dirt covering the Lysol wipe and you feel like you live in filth. It is horrifying so please just do that regularly.

                    Anyway, this week was pretty fun. We got 14 out of the 20 lessons Salt Lake expects missionaries to get so I feel pretty great. AND we had the woman I found by giving her son a sticker came to church and she LOVED it so good things in Saco 2! And the crowd favorite Dave has been reading (well, listening) most of the Book of Alma in the Book of Mormon. This has been coming this week because this week Sister Lescarbeau and I have been dedicating ourselves to REALLY helping our investigators keep their commitments. I mean really giving them my entire commitment so they can progress. So for Kayla (the mom) we had the member in our lesson invite her to church and be her ride. And we gave her some old missionary clothes so she can have church clothes when she came to church. And she did! Helping: It's real!

                    As far as this week goes in detail: Monday we had Korean food made by a member who served in Korea so we tried Kimchi. I will eternal regret not recording Sister Lescarbeau and my reactions because it was hilarious. But I feel like I could get used to it really quickly. Not too spicy so woo.

                    Tuesday our cool miracle of the day was we were doing service at the food pantry and we realized a woman we were serving was someone I boldly started talking to on the street a few weeks ago. That was really cool. Especially when (tangent) after hearing Kayla explain at church how we (the sister missionaries) found her by talking to her on the street. I will just always feel proud for talking to her because it is my call to talk to everyone!

                    Truthfully, I don't remember anything that happened Wednesday. But Thursday we had zone interviews and that went pretty well. And we taught three people on the street, one being a potential who came out of their apartment and sat on their stairs to talk to us about a concern he has with his current study of the Bible. So we are trying to help him with that.

                    Friday we had all intent to go to the Veterans Day parade but due to an appointment we thought didn't go that long and apparently small participation, we totally missed it. It was honestly pretty disappointing. BUT we then just street contacted asking people if they got to see the parade and we were able to hand out a copy of the Book of Mormon so never lose hope!

                    As far as this weekend the coolest thing, again, was Kayla at church! Woo! But we are having district P-Day now so I need to wrap this up but I hope you all have a good week! Miss you all!

Love,

Sister Wright 

Cleaning, Raking, a Bit of Both - November 7, 2016

Mom couldn't resist zooming in on such a happy face!

                   Hey there friends and family on this lovely November Monday. I can't believe we have already reached my 16 month mark! It really doesn't even feel real. Starting Tuesday people would ask how long I had been out and I would cringe. I really just need to say "A little over a year" because 16 months is ridiculous. But we had a pretty exciting week in teaching, finding, and service here in Saco. I even got to teach a lesson while wearing pants so fist pump there! I will explain that and more as you read on...(cheesy transition)

                    Monday was Deep Clean Halloween. Because this was formerly an elders apartment there were definitely things that needed to be deep cleaned like a closet full of clothes (literally full, as in, from floor to ceiling) that we assume an elder going home just shoved all his clothes in. Other notable finds include an entire suit (pants and jacket), a game of Risk (pieces and board), and a surprisingly large amount of space when you clear out the junk and trash. Sister Mann would be excited to know we cleaned the entryway (swept and took trash out) and decorated it nice with seashells and Mormonads. Good times for missionaries when they can't leave the apartment.

                    Honestly Tuesday and Wednesday weren't that exciting. We had some teaching appointments and meal appointments with members. I have I mentioned we have literally a dozen nonmembers we are working with to accept the restored gospel of Jesus Christ? It is so cool! We keep seeing so many miracles in this area and it makes me so excited. Like Thursday we extended a baptismal date to the woman I found by offering her son a sticker and she seemed really excited because it gave her something she could work to and in her words "no longer be a lukewarm Christian".

                    Another cool miracle was Friday morning during studies we were told that our morning appointment had to cancel so we planned to go stop by someone I knew was only available in the morning. About an hour later that person we planned texted and asked if we could come over and rake her leaves. We were so excited, got our service clothes on, and rushed to her home to rake those leaves. She also mentioned she didn't have a copy of the Bible or Book of Mormon so we were able to give those to her, share a message with her, and set up a return appointment for this week. Woo inspired miracles! AND to make Friday cooler we had another appointment fall through and so while we were walking back to the car I saw someone on their porch and then go into their home. Knowing I am commissioned to talk to everyone I told Sister Lescarbeau we needed to knock on this person's door so we went over, knocked twice and once we thought no one was going to answer the woman answered, we invited her to learn, and she let us right in! I was so pumped! It is easy to forget sometimes miracles like that DO happen in real life and not just in the Ensign in foreign missions.

                    We ended Friday with exchange in Yarmouth. I went to a member meal with Sister Knecht and had possible ground moose, possible ground deer meatloaf. It wasn't bad at all, just like any ground meat. Saturday morning we went to a garden Sister Mann and I had helped clean on exchange before but this time it was just Sister Knecht and I who didn't know really anything but the woman we were helping was super nice and helpful in getting us going. I used some big clippers to chop out some weeds and goldenrods which was a pretty fun, especially when I was finished with the patch I was assigned to clear out and could see it all done. Much like my favorite part of the mission, being able to see how far you have come.

                    Saturday night, because Portland is between Yarmouth and Saco, we almost met for dinner at Chipotle but went to the food court at the mall and I got Qdoba instead. So close. So. Close. Besides that, Sunday was exciting because of daylight savings, so one free hour of sleep. But now we get one less hour of light during the day, so boo. These are the things I miss about Arizona. Because Sister Lescarbeau wasn't feeling well I spent a lot of time reading in the Book of Mormon and I am currently in 3 Nephi 11-18. Words probably aren't able to describe how exciting it is to read those chapters like someone who doesn't know Jesus Christ or didn't know He had visited His "other sheep" in ancient America. I love being able to invite people to come close to Christ through the Book of Mormon and help them see if He loved the people in all parts of the world to visit them as the Resurrected Lord, He definitely loves us today. That I know.

                    Oh and today we went to Reny's. Apparently its a Maine Adventure. Have a good week and I love and miss you all!

Love,

Sister Wright  

"Sister Knecht and me"

"Exchange meeting!"

"Because Hood is a New England classic"

"Flowers we picked the last time I was on exchange in Yarmouth"

Many Pre-Halloween Treats - October 31, 2016

                   

        Sister Wright and her new companion, Sister Lescarbeau, at the Saco Ward Trunk or Treat               

                    Happy Halloween friends and family from your favorite non-costumed missionary. Because Deep Clean Halloween falls on a Monday this year we are basically in all day which as a missionary is fun but not at the same time. Hooray for clean apartment but boo not really contacting people. Oh well. This week before Halloween we had a lot of cool miracles or "treats" so I am basically going to start sharing them now:

                    Monday Sister Mann and I walked on Old Orchard Beach and collected a bunch of shells and even some sand dollars. Reason why Sister Mann is the coolest: She decided to have us walk down the beach and talk to this guy who had said he saw us walking around before and we invited him to the ward party this weekend. But she talked to him about his religious background and we just casually discussed the gospel. It was cool. And at dinner we were able to set up with a member to take us to a lesson on Thursday so we were really excited, it was a good day.

                    Tuesday I traveled again to the land of my inheritance, Manchester, to drop off Sister Mann and pick up Sister Lescarbeau (which is funny considering Sister Lescarbeau was just serving in Portland, ME). I cried way too much losing Sister Mann but I knew she was in good hands to travel home. And Sister Lescarbeau and I got to know each other a little better on our way back. Sister Lescarbeau is from Colorado Springs, Colorado and is basically my apostate music soul sister. Like, she even likes Train because reference. She's been out for 14 months (so a transfer younger than me) and knows how to get things done and relate to people really well. Someone told us Sister Lescarbeau looks like Miley Cyrus (obviously before she went weird). But yeah we are going to get good work done here in Saco these next five weeks if this week is any indicator. #miracles

                    Wednesday we tried a lot of finding. Everyone should be proud of me because I talked to two people randomly, one taking their trash out. And the other was on their doorstep and I was basically across the street. Both took invitations to the Halloween party so I felt pretty accomplished.

                    Thursday we had a really cool miracle of going to find a potential investigator we had been trying to contact for a long time and ended up running into her less active land-lady and sharing a message with her and setting up reading the Book of Mormon with her. So good times with that. We also got to teach one of our investigators Mark at work because when the only time you can meet your investigators is at the job site, you do it. AND we had the coolest lesson ever with that member from Monday night. She took us to the appointment with a returning part member family and we are mostly teaching the daughter (age 10) so she can be baptized! We tried to teach her really slow and establish a foundation of Jesus Christ and His earthly ministry. The member who took us was super awesome because she brought visuals like clay apostles and pictures to hold and we feel we might have had some information overload but overall it was a neat experience. And they came to church on Sunday! We were also supposed to have a lesson with Dave. It fell though so we will continue to try to work with him.

                    Another cool miracle came on Friday. We went out to lunch with a member and the waitress told us she had to tell us a funny story before we left. Turns out she has had this spiritual awakening starting on Wednesday when she watched God is Not Dead and saw two Catholic Nuns on Thursday. She said when she saw us and our name tags on Friday she really felt like God was talking to her and we were able to give her our number. She is also coworkers with another potential investigator of ours so we will probably hear from her again. We also were able to share the message of the Book of Mormon with woman we do service for weekly which she turned out to really enjoy! And another less active sister we do service for is the coolest missionary even if she can’t get out of bed because she invited her friend to learn and the friend is interested and we taught her Saturday! So we have found a lot of cool people this week!

                    Saturday was the ward Trunk or Treat and Sister Lescarbeau and I got to be cats. Some other honorable mentions include the Thayer family as the Skywalker family (Sister Thayer even as Padme) and the Guerrettes as the Jurassic World cast (the kids as dinosaurs and the parents as Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt). Another family I didn't know was Harry Potter themed and the dad was Snape. Overall it was way fun, especially the Mac n Cheese cook off. I was in heaven.

                    Sunday we were basically everywhere after church. But the highlight was when a member couple came with us to teach their neighbor and the husband shared his testimony of the gospel in his life and invited our investigator to ponder what he would do if he found out this church was true. And that was super cool because the investigator really latched onto it.

                    So good things are happening in Saco. I hope you all have a safe Halloween and are excited for November. Love you all!

Love,

Sister Wright 

"At the beach. We had a fun time"

"In Manchester"

A member posted this on the mission facebook page and Mom was able to steal it!

Time to Leaf - October 24, 201

"Just me and my best friend"

               Hello and Happy Monday friends and family of the world. I am coming at you from sunny and windy Old Orchard Beach, ME where the leaves have abandoned the trees. It is honestly one of the sadder experiences of autumn, when you walk out of church and look at the trees by the parking lot and realize ALL THE LEAVES HAVE LEFT. Boo. But at least the colors were beautiful while they lasted. Despite the drought potentially"ruining" the colors we still had a beautiful leaf season. So on to reviewing the week.

                Monday was P-Day and unfortunately not much to report on. Today though Sister Mann and I hope to go down to the beach to have our last "photo shoot" before Sister Mann leaves. Yes, Sister Mann is leaving and heading to the Logan area aka she is going home for health reasons. Honestly, this is one of the saddest things either of us have had to deal with and I will miss her so much but I know she is going to be a wonderful service missionary in HOPEFULLY the Logan Temple. And seriously, only the coolest people can say they did two missions in one year? Only the coolest super hero ever SisterMann! (I know you are next to me as I type this but I want it known on the internet where your mom has found my blog that you are AWESOME!) Ok I will stop bragging about Sister Mann and talk about the rest of the week for realsies.

               Tuesday we had our last "less active" lesson with a less active sister we work with. For all 

intents and purposes she is active now because she has a calling (nursery workers for the win!), goes to church, and is keeping the commandments the best she can. We are also helping her go do baptisms for her family by November so hooray! We also got a new phone because we thought our old one wasn't sending messages but apparently the new one does that too so we are just crossing our fingers we can talk to people effectively by the time we get a new new phone later on. And Tuesday I got to talk to Brother and Sister Mann with the companion sister Mann. That was pretty fun. Especially since Sister Mann's younger brother sounded like Nick. That freaked me out. (Happy shout out Brother and Sister Mann and Josh!)

             Wednesday was district meeting. Besides that nothing too exciting happened. But Thursday I had three sandwiches that inevitably killed my stomach. We had lunch with a member who made us burgers and I made the smart decision of having two. I neglected to remember that after our lunch appointment we were going to the Assistant Ward Mission Leader's for coordination and he was making us BLTs with may and avocado. Avocado-My weakness. So two burgers and a BLT later I was dead. But the sister who made the burgers also trimmed my hair so while I was dying at least my hair looked nice.

             Friday was what I call Asian food heaven. We had one member who lived in Japan make us sushi rolls and fried tofu for lunch. Oh and miso soup. And for dinner another member made postickers and fried rice. I have decided Sister Mann is my favorite because she agrees if there was one restaurant that you would eat at for the rest of your life it should be an Asian one. And Sally (who is now just short for Salvation Mobile) got new tires.

            All week was fairly overcast and drizzly but despite that we were able to meet twice with one of our investigators, Billy, on his front porch. Billy is an interesting case because he loves spirituality but has a hard time with organized religion. But we had the opportunity to give him a large print Book of Mormon he accepted. He says he likes what he's read so far. We have another investigator who really likes bow hunting and we read a bit about Nephi's bow to him which he enjoyed.

            However, the rain wasn't so bad until Saturday when it was pouring all through the festival we had a booth at, The Saco Pumpkin Harvest Fest (pronounced: Hah-vest). Our booth was right next to a cool eco-preschool with hedgehogs and a tortoise. I got a picture of the tortoise but failed to get one with the hedgehogs. Lost opportunity. But our booth had coloring pages, a prize wheel, and Halloween prizes. Sister Mann and I had fun talking to people and inviting them to the ward trunk or treat next weekend and a lot of people seemed excited to attend. We will see how that turns out Saturday! 

           We also had a baptism for one of the elder's investigators! It was such a beautiful service and we tried to get our investigators to go but no one was able to. Oh well, it was still really cool!

           Saturday night I found out my fate of staying here in Saco and I will be co-senior-ing with Sister Lescarbou, who is currently in Portland. I will pick her up tomorrow in the land of my inheritance, Manchester, but obviously have to lose Sister Mann in the meantime. This week has really taught me the importance of companionship and I want to quote from General Conference Elder Yamashita to all of my companions: "I know one reason you came here. You came here for my benefit. I have come to understand what a great young (woman) I have been serving with. I am blessed to know you." I love you all and hope we all continue to be ambitious in Christ!

Love,

Sister Wright

"Rex the tortoise. Cool neighbor at the Saco Harvest Fest. You're welcome Nick"

"District picture because #week6"

"Updated fandom map"

"I AM THE LAST ______" - October 17, 2016

"Selfie because we forgot to take photos during the week and you wanted to see my face"

                    Hello Friends and Family and Happy Mission Monday! I hope you all have had a great week. Sister Mann and I have been enjoying this autumn weather with the leaves changing. We have been collecting leaves and keeping them flat in a book. What was cool was during zone interviews during the meeting Sister Blair had her own collection of leaves and used them as an analogy for our change during the mission. We all change but we don't all change into the same thing nor do we change at the same pace. We are all beautiful because we chose to change. Take those thoughts and ponder them in your mind and expound on them in regards to the Plan of Salvation and the Savior's Atonement. The mission is cool stuff!

                    Before I get into the cool missionary moments this week, a "fun" experience Sister Mann and I had last night was ten minutes before bed we were quietly getting ready when we hear this relatively loud buzzing and then it suddenly stop. We look up and there is this huge gross beetle crawling around our bathroom door frame and we had a minor freak out followed by catching the unwanted visitor in a tissue, running down the stairs in our slippers, throwing him (tissue and all) out the front door, and proceeding to take five minutes to make sure all the window were ENTIRELY closed. Luckily earlier in the day the landlord had mentioned the window that had our AC unit might not have been entirely shut so after that critter made himself welcome we made sure those windows were SHUT. We also had to squish two spiders during the bug eviction process but I digress. This has been story time with the awko taco Saco sisters.

                    We had a pretty good week with being able catch people which you think wouldn't be that difficult. Sometimes it is but not this week. We had appointments set with the mom I shared that I found by offering her son a sticker but they fell through either on her or our ends which was sad. We weren't able to meet with Dave but we are still in contact with him! And another investigator who had a baptismal date was supposed to come to church yesterday because we were having a linger longer after for Ward Conference but he didn't come. Oh well, there is always next week. We did have a really solid lesson with him where we asked what he expected to get out of the rest of the lessons and he testified that everything we have taught him has just felt right and that God hasn't told him it is wrong. So he will be baptized, we just need to get his family to join him!

                    One cool way we caught someone was we went by a less active's to see if she was home and she wasn't... but she pulled up when we turned around to leave and we were able to help her bring in groceries. Those little moments when you realize you are being truly led by the spirit always makes me happy. Besides that things have been a little more slow with the work this week but that is ok because the people we are working with are really great. I am just always in awe to have found so many people just in the last two transfers here in actual Saco and It’s all thanks to my awesome companion who has taught me so much about talking to everyone about the restored gospel. Ten points to Sister Mann!

                    Yesterday was Ward Conference for the Saco ward and Sister Mann had the cool opportunity to see some members from the Farmingdale ward. We also said our final goodbyes to Buffles (107-year old member) and her daughter before they head down to Florida for the winter. And had scripture hero time in primary again! Since the month's theme for primary was prayer we acted out some favorite scenes of prayer. The junior primary made some pretty valiant guesses at all the heroes being Nephi. Not a bad guess in all honesty but they really excited when I finally did act out Nephi. Sister Mann got to be her hero, Captian Moroni. When we got to hang out with the adults we focused a lot on the Sabbath day and why it's important. I really liked the discussion of the importance of the Sabbath but, again, we got to hang out with the primary.

                    Besides that I truly have no idea what this next week will bring with transfers. I really don't want it to be my last transfer in Saco or with Sister Mann but we will see. I hope you all have a good week and stay safe!

Love,

Sister Wright 

"Introducing Carlotta and Bradley. Carlotta is obviously special"

"Cool tree courtesy Sister Mann"

Blitz and Splits - October 10, 2016

                  She didn't send a picture of herself AGAIN, but I grabbed this screenshot of the video she sent

                   Hello and Happy Monday again friends and family! Weren't we just here talking about my adventures last week at the beginning of October? I feel like we were because honestly the weeks are going by too dang fast. And nothing too exciting has been happening this week so I really feel like anything I write won't be that exciting to hear about. But as always I will do my best at storytelling the lives of the Saco Sisters:

                    Remember last week when a mom asked if we just handed out free copies of the Book of Mormon? Well 1. We are teaching her and she is super great and 2. We ran into someone else (actually, the British guy who plays pickleball) and HE asked how much a copy of the Book of Mormon would be. Needless to say we were excited he asked one of those questions every missionary loves to hear and gave him his very own copy of the Book of Mormon. As a necessary missionary side note, upon reflecting on this last general conference so many speakers spoke on the importance of the Book of Mormon in our conversion to Christ. I love having the opportunity to share the Book of Mormon as another testimony of Jesus Christ to bless peoples' lives as I know its blessed mine. Also just being able to correct any misunderstandings of the Book is another cool opportunity as well.

                    Besides that the rest of this week was a lot of finding out who in our teaching pool is still interested. The "pool cleaning" has been rough in some ways because we lost a lot of people but we figured out who is still willing to come closer to Christ. Dave apparently had a really strong spiritual feeling one morning that he really needed to consider baptism so we were able to discuss a lot of his concerns with that. No baptismal date yet but he is asking all the right questions! Our other investigator with a baptismal date had to drop it though because he hasn't been to church yet. In his defense, we haven't had normal church in a while due to conferences so he will get there.

                    Saturday we had a zone blitz in Portland. It was an experiment the Zone Leaders put on where we were out for two hours in a particular part of Portland (I covered South Portland near the Portland

Headlight) with a temporary companion (so I was with Sister Lescarbou) and basically find as many people as we could. Some companionships had cool experiences like inviting people to baptism (by which the person expected to be baptized next week. Not how it works but still cool) and men decorating their houses for Halloween. I was able to go find a bit by a beach and learn some Maine and WWII history as I looked at the Atlantic directly at Peaks Island, between Portland Headlight and Bug Light from a couple. Neither were particularly interested in learning more but were really fun to talk to. We also met a couple in their backyard by the fireplace who invited us to sit and talk with them. They apparently had seen missionaries in the past and we were the first ones they ever asked how we even became missionaries. So overall the blitz was a cool experience. Sister Mann got to go on a social media split with the Portland members and she seemingly had a lot of fun.

                    Yesterday, I'm assuming due to Hurricane Matthew, we had a lot of rain. I remember my trainer saying that when you’re out in the rain people take pity on you but not ever feeling like that was actually real. Well yesterday I did and people were all really nice, even if they weren't interested in a lesson right then. And we had a lot of visitors for the weekend, some even from Hawaii, doing their genealogy work out here. So cool!

                    Besides that, I've been reviewing general conference (yes, already) and I feel like I neglected last week to write about my favorite (and yes, biased) talks: Elder Oaks and Elder Anderson. Both were focused on missionary work and I feel like it was a continued theme throughout the conference as we discussed the blessings of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that the truth is restored on the earth and the best way to pay it forward is to share it with someone else. Something I know we forget is that there is "no correlation between the depth of a relationship and the probability that a person will be interested in learning about the gospel." We send missionaries out to talk to strangers and that those strangers will want to hear from them. Why doesn't the same apply to us as normal people? It’s an awesome concept that I'm glad Elder Oaks discussed. I would highly recommend reviewing his and all other talks given! I love you all and hope you have an awesome week!

Love,

Sister Wright

 "These are brown and orange"

"In the car"

"As Sister Mann says, in the cah"

"By the church"

Literally Maytember - October 3, 2016

"This is the best we could do. Because of the drought, the leaves are taking forever to change this year."

                    Hello and Happy Monday friends and family! I don't know if I had said this already but I realized a while back I will have been in Saco from May to September PLUS so in Studio C terms, I've been in Saco for Maytember. Not very clever, I know, but that is ok. I say these things mostly to avoid the fact that I hit my 15 month mark Saturday and had my last General Conference as a missionary. How did that happen?? I swear, the first six months took a seemingly long time, the middle six zoomed by, and I don't even know how it became October 3rd already! But we press on like a lot of the general authorities talked about this weekend. Sister Mann and I had a great time this week (AND WEEKEND) so I better get to telling you about it.

                    Last Monday we honestly didn't do anything really exciting. But we had dinner with members which to me is always a blessing. Today we are going to go through all our winter and summer stuff. Because it has been so cold this week (going down to the 50s and 60s which after surviving last winter I assumed I had become acclimated to) we decided we needed to break out the winter wardrobe and for your friendly neighborhood Sister Wright that means she can starting sending home her summer clothes. I literally have no idea how I got here BUT I DIGRESS.

                    Tuesday we had the really cool opportunity to find a new investigator. We were looking for someone in a neighborhood and the current resident had told us the person we were looking for had moved. Luckily that guy was pretty nice and took a Book of Mormon. As we were walking back though I bravely asked a mom we were passing by if her son wanted a sticker. She enthusiastically said sure and noticed I was giving him a "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" sticker and commented on how that is a lot of Jesus love. From there we explained who we were and she asked "Is it true Mormons give copies of the Book of Mormon for free?" So for Sister Mann and I we really feel like we hit the jackpot with her because she is so open and she even said "You know, I always see missionaries but I've never talked to them before. I'm glad you came and talked to me." Something I've been working on my entire mission is talking with everyone and I gained a testimony of its importance with her. It's not like most of my mission I haven't WANTED to talk to everyone, I just have been struggling to overcome that initial boundary of just TALKING to them because people are strangers and we are taught as children NOT to talk to them. But because for once I spoke up, even about a sticker, we have invited someone to learn about the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and seen her twice to help her come closer to Him. So thanks missionary motivation.

                    This week we also met a man from England who spends his mornings playing pickleball. #ThanksFinding

                    As I'm sure some of you are wondering we saw Dave again once this week. He wasn't able to watch the broadcast of General Conference but he texted us this morning saying he wanted to see us again this week so we assume the break he was taking is over. Thanks for your continued prayers for him!

                    The only other thing (besides the fact I have had sushi and Japanese dumplings or gyoza TWICE this week. Go food!) I would like to focus on this week was General Conference. I know I'm not alone when I say all the sessions of General Conference were fantastic and I really wish we could have it more often. But then it wouldn't be as much of a treat. Since I've started my mission I made a notebook with the questions I would want answered by the general authorities and of course I did that again this conference. What was awesome was within the first few talks a lot of my questions were answered and they continued to be answered as the conference went on. It was a huge testimony builder to me because I felt and later knew that God does hear and answer our prayers and by that extent He does answer our questions because He loves us! Why wouldn't He answer our questions? That's where the Restoration started, is with a question, and I am grateful to live in a time of modern prophets.

                    Well, I just want to say thanks to everyone for their love and support and I hope we all take what we learned from General Conference and apply it to our lives! I love and miss you all!

Love, 

Sister Wright 

 "Fantasy Conference! I didn't do too bad"