Zone Conference, Ward Conference, ridiculous front doors...

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!! It's been a pretty great week! Super amazing weekend!!! That's when all the exciting stuff happened... haha so I'll just tell you about that! Mostly we've just been tracting the rest of the week! oh! but our new fun thing to do is to take pictures of the ridiculous front doors... in new England you never know which door to go to... well unless they block off the front door like these ones... haha then you have to search for the side door.. or sometimes they don't block off the front door outside but inside it's blocked by a couch or something so we knock on the door and then people awkwardly come out the side or back of their house and then come talk to us... haha it's great! so we're on the quest to find the greatest door block offs... haha so i sent a few from this week....and a couple pictures from zone conference. This is a four generation picture!!!!!!!! Sister Griffin trained Sister Waite who trained Sister Sowards who trained me!!!!!!!!!!! :) haha :) pretty awesome! Not many people know their grandmas and great grandmas! Four generations all at the same zone conference :)

So Sunday was ward conference! It was super awesome! The best part was when they had a surprise testimony and they chose Brother Eldredge!! He went up there and bore his powerful testimony and talked about how because of home teachers and the sister missionaries and their tenacity and persistence he is now back after so many years!! Ah!! He is so amazing!! He's planning to go on the next youth temple trip to do baptisms and he's getting his patriarchal blessing soon! Last week we tried to tell him that we didn't need to come see him anymore because we've taught him everything and he's just so good and coming to church every week! He didn't really like that idea... he said "so what?! come anyways!" haha so for now we're still planning to see him every week! Also on sunday Sister Wallace got her temple recommend!!! Oh my goodness!!! I am so excited for her!!! So either this week or next week the Raineys are going to take her!!!! :D our less actives are on fire! :) ahh! so great! 

Sunday night we had a meeting with all of the stake leaders and Elder S. Gifford Nielsen of the seventy came and he spoke to all of us! It was so great! One of the things that really stuck out was how he talked about real growth and the mission of the church Moses 1:39 and how we are all in it together! We have to work together in unity as missionaries and members and just how we have to act and the little things each day make such a difference. Heavenly Father did not put you here to fail. We are all here to succeed! We're here to learn all that we can and return home to Him and to bring others with us! We have to be unified! It was a great meeting!! it was kind of an extension of his conference talk which was so good! so just read that and it will be almost like you were there! :) 

Yesterday we had zone conference!! I love zone conference!!! Singing "Called to Serve" with 130 other missionaries never gets old.. ahhh!! just so filled with the spirit and so much happiness!! It was amazing! We got to hear more from Elder Nielsen and his wife! They are both so full of enthusiasm and excitement! I wish I could tell you all about it! I'm like overwhelmed with all of the amazing things that we heard! haha it was so good! We talked a lot about choice. Every choice we make determines which side we're on. We all made the choice to come here and we need to always be on the Lord's side! The great thing is that we know who wins this war! We just don't know what the final score will be! But we have to fight to the end and help all our teammates - our brothers and sisters! He put us here to win! I know that every choice we make is much more than just here on earth and we need to work on an eternal journey and not just an earthly journey! I am so grateful for the spirit I could feel yesterday and for all the great things I could learn! We cannot waste a minute! We are on the Lord's team and need to always remember that and fight til the end! :) I wish I could share more with you! But let me just tell you it was amazing! I hope we can all realize the potential that we have and realize how God really has a plan for each of us!! And it's the plan of happiness!!! Isn't that so great?! His plan is for us to find joy!!! and to be happy!!! :) ahh!! it just makes me so happy:) 

I love you all so very much!! Hope you have a wonderful week!! oh and everyone say happy birthday to my amazing mom!!!!!!!!!!! It's her birthday tomorrow!! and she deserves to have the most amazing day ever!!! so make it happen! haha :) LOVE YOU!! :)

Sister Tait