Last week we really went to Omaha just to play. We went to Old Market, which is like old downtown Omaha. They have a lot of really cool art stores and fun thrift stores and this really amazing ice cream place with homemade ice cream daily. There is also a store up there that they make these rings that all the sisters in the mission have and Sister Simmons didn't have hers and mine had broken. It was a lot of fun. It just takes forever to get there so we spent most of our preparation day traveling and in Omaha.
It seems like every week we have so much to do and it's never the same, even though we do the same thing everyday! This week we had interviews with the mission president and it was really good. It's so weird that it was my last interview, with the exception of my departing interview, with him. We did find out that there will be another mission tour next month with a general authority but we don't know who yet. We did a lot of service this past week which was great. We have really been struggling to find service lately but we did service with Deb and also with a less-active just cleaning up and doing some things for winter. We were able to go to Sidney and Hamburg and see a lot of the less-actives there and even meet some that we had never met before. In Sidney there is this couple, the Kolemans. We tried to meet with them before but they were always busy when we were there and this time we were able to have a lesson with them. They are rock stars. They both want to come back to church and they are teaching their daughter who is 6 all about the church even though neither has been for years. We taught the Restoration and she knew about the Priesthood and understood the authority. It was such a miracle.
Last Sunday was also one of the most powerful fast and testimony meetings that I had ever been to. There was a family in our ward who got sealed on Saturday. The wife had been less-active for years but came back a few years ago and her husband got baptized like 13 months ago. They are such a strong family now and the wife is related to most of the ward, so most of the ward was able to go to his endowment and their sealing. They have 3 kids and their oldest turned 8 a couple months ago. Their 8 year old bore his testimony and it was one of the most powerful experiences. He bore a sweet testimony about the temple and the sealing power and in the middle he was just overcome with the Spirit and just stood and the microphone for a whole minute and the whole chapel was silent. It was amazing! And really made me reflect on the reason that I am out here to help families hopefully get to this point.
Thanks, love you!
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