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Hello Everyone!!

I hope all of you guys have had a great week! Mine was amazing as usual but it was extra special this week because of General Conference (which is when our Prophet and Apostles speak to us)!! 

I felt like conference went by so quick this weekended but I also got so much out of it! It is hard to choose a favorite but one that I liked a lot was the very last talk by Neil L. Anderson. I loved how he talked about all of the other talks and quoted the the Prophet Thomas S. Monson. It has been amazing telling people this week that we have a Prophet of God on the earth today that leads us and guides us! I have never really realized, until I came on my mission, of how amazing and what a blessing it is that we have a living Prophet of God! My testimony of prophets have grown so much and I am so glad that we are able to hear from them this weekend!

So this week we were able to see one of our investigators get baptized! My companion found him about a month ago and I have been able to teach him the past couple of weeks! He has come a long way and it is amazing to see the Atonement of Jesus Christ work in peoples lives! He has not been able to be confirmed yet because of conference but he will on Sunday!

So I told you about the prepared family that we met a few weeks ago, well we were not able to teach them this week because they were busy but we were able to drop by and talk with the dad for a little bit and he is so prepared! (He is the one with the New Jersey accent) So we asked him if he had been reading the Book of Mormon and he said yes. So we then asked him if he has prayed and asked if it is true and he said no. We asked him why not and he said, "I don't have to, I already know it is true." Sister Gaston and I could not help but smile the whole time after he said that! My face always hurts from smiling so much after I leave their house!

So on Thursday we were able to have some pretty fun lessons. We taught an almost 97 year old Jewish women and a minister in another Christian church here! They were both awesome lessons that I grew a lot from and I hope they did as well. It is amazing but scary getting questions from people who are from a different religion as you but I also love it because I can feel the Holy Ghost working through me! Just like the scriptures say in Doctrine and Covenants Section 100: 5-6

5 Therefore, verily I say unto you, lift up your voices unto this people; speak the thoughts that I shall put into your hearts, and you shall not be confounded before men;

6 For it shall be given you in the very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say.

I love being a missionary and I am so glad that I get to serve the people in Idaho! There are so many people here who need the gospel and we just need to find them! I know that there are people all around world that need the gospel, they just do not know where to find it! Do not be scared to share your beliefs and things you know to be true on social media. We have an investigator who decided to turn on General Conference and the first thing she heard is what she needed to hear and she thought, "Oh, I bet they always say that" but then later she saw that a member friend had shared the same quote and we told her that they do not always say the same things and that what they say is from God. 

I know this church is true and it is the only true church on the earth. I know that we have a prophet of God on the earth and that he is God's mouth piece on the earth! I love you all and hope you have a great week! I am just going to end with our mission scripture:

13 Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life.

Love,

Sister Lacey