Mission Tour

This week was GREAT! We had mission tour this week. Which is basically a zone conference except a general authority presides. We had Elder Watson who is in the area presidency and 1st quorum of the twelve with us. Monday night the sisters got to go do dinner with President and sister Poulsen, and Elder and sister Watson. It was fun. I got to sit right across the table from Elder and Sister Watson, so I spent Monday evening chatting it up with a general authority. Haha...It was fun. He is pretty funny. Then tuesday was the conference with him, which was also amazing. At one point he said he had a "test" for one companionship. He took out a book of mormon and said this copy was special. His eight year old granddaughter who had just recently been baptized had written her testimony in it, and he wanted one companionship to take it and give it to a family that would then be baptized. My companion and I quickly volunteered for the "test". But now I am a little worried about finding the right family for this Book of Mormon. So, if you want to pray for my companion and I to find the family that that Book of Mormon is supposed to belong to, we would greatly appreciate it. We know that Book of Mormon is meant to convert a whole family. Now we just need to find them,a nd we need your prayers to help. So thank you for that. Also this week we had two baptisms. Gomolemo Bantshang was baptized in the family ward. He is 14, and his mom is a member. He is a very bright 14 year old, kind of how I imagine Joseph Smith was at that age. While bearing his testimony he said he was hesitant about being baptized for quite a while because he thought he had to know everything, but then he decided that that was not faith. He was very happy to be baptized, and we were happy his father came! The other baptism we had was in the Singles ward. His name is Thuto Motshwarapitse, yeah try and say that one :) He has been coming to church since he was 12, for like 10 years now, off and on. His older brother used to bring him, but now his older brother his less active, but Thuto finally decided he was ready for the commitment. It was great to see him make that covenant. He was also really happy. It was great. Then yesterday we also had a fireside for the ward. It was wonderful. We have been really concerned about the unity in the ward, so the ward mission leader got us a fireside, and it was great! Everyone really enjoyed it, and we had a great turn out! We were expecting no more than 30 families, because we were going to give each family a BoM to give to someone, but the BoMs ran out before every family got one! It was great! We based our fireside off of President Hickley's talk "Feed my Sheep". You havn't read that talk, you should. It is very good. It says how every member needs a friend, a calling, and nourishment. So that is what we talked about, and everyone seemed to really enjoy it, and the bishop was really pleased and asked if we could do a follow up fireside ina couple weeks. So, that is good progression. This really should help the ward, which is what we have been praying for. So this week was great. And I am looking forward to another great week. Thanks for reading, and thanks for your prayers. We hope to find that family that needs Elder Watson's Book of Mormon very soon!!! I'll keep you updated.