First Zone Conference

Not much news this week.  After our visit to Bintulu, we were so tired.  We arrived home on Saturday afternoon, and went directly to church for a special meeting and Relief Society meeting.  We had makeup classes for the sisters in Relief Society.  It was so fun!  The young women came also.  They had more fun playing with E/S Larson's new hats than the make up.  The sisters loved getting beautiful and laughed a lot.
Dad and I came home and had a little nap on Sunday afternoon before going to the airport again.  We went to Miri for our first Zone Conference.  Our 6 missionaries traveled with us--it was fun!  We left at 8 pm and arrived in our hotel room after 10 pm.  I was exhausted and so was Dad.  Our meetings the next day were suppose to start at 11:30, but President Clark's plane was delayed and we didn't start until aboout 3--barely time for our trip to be worthwhile. 

Our mission president's wife always talks about family history--always!  So, she did her presentation first, then Pres. Clark spoke.  It was wonderful.  He is a great motivator and speaker.  The young missionaries really respect and benefit from his speaking.  He was traveling with one of the General Authoirities--Elder Pratt and his wife.  Sis Pratt taught us on the Holy Ghost for almost a hour, which left little time for her husband, but very informative.  Elder Pratt was wonderful!  He just opened it up for questions and discussion.  I loved it and him!  So down to earth!

We also got to meet several of the missionary couples in our district.  In fact, they all sat at the same table with Dad and I.  Such delightful people!  President Clark's sister and her husband, the Weilands, are serving in Sandakan, on the eastern part of the island.  His 84-year old Mom is serving in Miri, where we were meeting!  We enjoyed meeting all who were there.  It's nice to put a face with names now.  Our group from KK had to be excused before the meeting was over because we had to catch a plane.  We finally got home at about 11:30pm.  My back hurt so badly from that horrible ride in Bintulu that I spent most of the next day in bed.  I didn't exercise this week at all, but today(Sunday) I feel really good and am going to get back on schedule this week.

Tomorrow, we have to start preparing for a Valentine's Ball for the YSA group we work with.  They are inviting the rest of the YSAs in our District.  We're going to do our planning tomorrow night at FHE.  They love stuff like this.  Any wonderful ideas-just let me know.

Jenny, we received your package today from the sisters, who had a visa run to Singapore last week.  We love the pics and calender and especially the treats.  Sebastian loved, loved his hat!!  When I told him that it was a genuine BYU hat, he said, "Oh, it must be very expensive!"  He put it on his head with the tag still on and wore it to take us home from church today.

We love you and pray for each of you daily.  Heavenly Father is mindful of each of you daily.  I know this, for the Spirit  tells me!         LOVE,  MOM

This is a pic of some of the wonderful road we traveled on in Bintulu!-----21/2 HOURS!!!

This is Kiko, who is in our YSA group.  She is coming out of her shell with us more and more.  If I were rich, I would pay to have her teeth fixed--they're so bad!  She's good and faithful.

This was YSA's FHE two weeks ago.  I taught them a lesson about the early pioneers of the church. Then, I let them look at the 20+ books that Mary Anne has compiled of the Church history in KK and talked to them about how they are the pioneers who are being written about in the history of KK.  They loved it!