Hello wonderful friends and family!

This week has been a blast and that especially because of conference! For those who don’t know, this weekend there was a worldwide broadcast of a conference where the Prophet and apostles that are on the earth today addressed the world. Other leaders of the church addressed us as well, including some of the leaders who are women. In fact, my favorite talk that was given was by Carol F. McConkie, a counselor in the Young Women’s Presidency, who spoke on prayer and inspired me to put much more thought and fervency into my daily and nightly prayers. The conference can be found on LDS.org, just look for the 2016 October General Conference! 🙂

The District

This week was pretty great for our whole district, and although there was some time taken out for conference, we still got a lot of finding done and teaching as well. Found some really cool people–and here’s a quick, funny finding story:

The District

Elder Whitesides were taking the bus the morning of our “car fast” day this week, and I was SO proud when without being pushed to, my companion initiated a conversion with a nice black lady sitting across from him. He was just very kind and sincere and talked a little about what we do, and actually stood up and set next to her to talk more. He expressed how learning more about the Restored Gospel could bless her, and she politely declined his invitation; but, he still continued a normal conversation with her about her day. Shortly thereafter, a man got on the bus whose name was John and he ended up sitting next to me. I just said hello and he was wearing headphones and said hello back. After a minute he asked who the heck we are, noticing our attire and nametags, and I told him! Somehow in our conversation he ended up mentioning he’s about 75% native american, and that his friend’s ancestors from long ago claim Christ came to them!!! That’s exactly what the Book of Mormon is a record about, so I told him and he was extremely interested! Meanwhile, the lady who had been talking to Elder Whitesides had heard the conversation I had with John, and leaned back over to Elder Whitesides and said, “Can I have your number, just in case I change my mind?” *he gave it* “And you want my number too?”
“Sure want us to call in you a week to see if you want to learn more?”
“Yeah sure call me in a week!”

A huge preying mantis

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I love you all! Miracles do happen! Every. Single. Day. Thanks again for all of the birthday wishes and cards and things that were send I do so appreciate it and all the emails and support and love I have received from back home! 🙂

Some cool Elders at KZoo last week (KZoo = Kalamazoo)

Have a great week and I will be emailing again Saturday because it’s the last week of the transfer, so I’ll let you all know whether one of us is moving areas!

Elder Breinholt