Elder in England: Week 40: General Conference!

This has been a great, busy week here in Dereham! I loved General Conference so much! It's so amazing how you can find answers to you questions through the talks you hear - I had SO many questions answered of how I can do better! It really helped me strengthen my testimony that if you really do have a question and you earnestly seek for an answer, you can receive it!

I may have said this 6 months ago, but General Conference is a little different here in the UK. One thing I should've known before I came to the UK was that because of the time difference, you watch the sessions on different days. We watched the Saturday morning session at 5pm on Saturday, the Priesthood session 10am Sunday, the Saturday afternoon session 1pm Sunday, and the Sunday morning session 5pm Sunday. I still haven't watched the Sunday afternoon session yet, so I'll have to find time to do that! I also realized how great I had it being able to just turn on the TV back home to watch General Conference - the only way you can get it here is by internet, and then you better hope you have a good connection! We had a decent connection at the Church, but sometimes it would skip forward or skip backward, so sometimes we'd have cliff-hangers as we listened (for example, we never found out what profound thing the dancing Indian shaman said to the doctor). I'm excited for when we get the General Conference issue of the Ensign so I can read all of the talks!

We've also had Mission President Interviews this week, which were amazing! (If you want to see pictures of that, you could check out Sister Holly Jordan's [President Jordan's wife] Facebook page - they'll probably be there). It was also kinda funny, because I didn't want to forget any of the questions I wanted to ask President Jordan, so I wrote them all down a few days before, but then some of the speakers at General Conference answered some of my questions for me! I was still able to ask him some questions to help me do better, and he gave me some really good advice, so I'm excited to go out and work and improve now!

We've had lots of meetings with other missionaries and ward leaders this week, and we've found some things that we can do to help them more, like visiting some less-active members with good potential to return, and they've told us they can help us drive to some of the more obscure places in our area to contact some of them. I'm so grateful for such awesome member missionaries here in this ward!

We're also looking forward to this week because of all the people we're planning on meeting. We haven't had too many appointments with investigators this past week, but we have some solid potential investigators we're going to meet his week along with some great part-member families who want to be taught! We're also excited to begin finding some great new investigators with everything we learned from Interviews and General Conference!

One last note, I'm learning to drive this week! We got a call from our Zone Leaders right after General Conference on Sunday that we were going to have an exchange within two weeks and that, because one of them didn't know how to drive, I'd have to learn how to drive! My driving lesson is this Thursday, hope it all goes well!

Hope everyone had a fantastic General Conference weekend! Love y'all!

Elder McOmber

Funnies of the Week:

We found a self-re-inflating whoopee cushion in our flat this week. My companion loves it.