17 Again

Hallo, alles!

So, Thursday TRC was great, we talked with the grandmother of one of the sisters in our zone. She is a wonderful lady. We get to Skype with real investigators in Germany this week and next week for TRC (Teaching Resource Center) and our whole district is super excited. The whole zone loves TRC .

Friday was the usual -- long, monotonous, and really hard. Saturday, on the other hand, was the most scrumptious spiritual feast I have ever had in my life. The talks were all fantastic. I learned so much, and got a good 14+ pagers of notes. I loved Lynn G Robbins Talk. I think I got a full page of notes from him alone. It was amazing! That’s the best adjective I can think of.

So, for conference I set the goal of having a question for each session. I got this from something Danika told me in one of her letters: "It helps of you have a [specific] question." So I decided I'd write the question at the top of the first page for the session, and keep it in mind as I took notes, and see what kind of an answer, or answers I got. It was a really neat experience, especially when my first question was answered very strongly in the second talk, the one by President Packer, and then again in Elder Robbins talk. Talk about God hearing and answering our prayers.

The second session was spectacular. Jörg Klebingat's talk really hit me hard, maybe because he's a German, but also because of his presentation style. It really fit my learning style, and I got a lot from his talk, especially his list of things to be a better disciple. I really liked it with some of the 70 giving talks in their native languages, I think it had a lot more power behind it, even more so than when they speak in English. Our entire zone was a little disappointed when President Uchtdorf didn't speak in German, but I quickly got over it when there was so much power in it. It was mind-boggling.

Listening to President Monson's talk Sunday morning was really cool. He answered my session question, and I got a lot more from the spirit than I did with the other speakers. I got more thoughts and impressions of things I should do, and not as many "that's a good quote, I should do that," moments. It's amazing the things you notice when the prophets speaking verses when the area 70 and other apostles are talking.

Sunday night Devotional was really cool. it was an area 70, former BYU football player Vai Stasomi or something like that. I don't remember. He’s Tongan, and he gave a wonderful devotional. He told us to put our notes away, and then just talked about his life, and things he's done to have missionary experiences, told lots of jokes, and it was super cool.

Tuesday devotional was also an area 70, Brent H Nielson, and he gave us one of those "things I wish I'd known at your age" talks. We all thought it would be boring, but it was actually really good. I learned a lot from him. So much, I would need to write a whole other letter.

So, this week was full to overflowing with cool spiritual experiences, and I loved every minute of it.

Keep smiling everyone. I love you and pray for you,

Sister Montgomery.