Modern revelation is the best!

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This week was amazing and ended with some exciting announcements! 2 HOURS OF CHURCH! This announcement has us so pumped! Not only is it going to be easier to get people we are teaching to Church (haha), but the new home-centered gospel study plan is going to give each one of us more opportunities and more responsibility to seek and receive personal revelation. There were so many amazing talks in this conference that its hard to choose which were my favorites. I recommend all of you read Elder Rasband's talk on fear and of course Elder Cook's talk about the new Sunday schedule (he is coming to our mission on Oct 25th!) and Elder Bednar's talk. I am so grateful for our modern day prophet who can receive revelation for our church and help guide us along the covenant path. 

This week we also had zone conference and it was all centered around using time wisely and it was so motivational and uplifting. We learned how to better set goals and put forth our best effort before the Lord. I have a testimony that when we work hard and put forth our best effort before the Lord, he will bless us. Sister King and I have seen that in our work and the work of other missionaries. 

We had the opportunity to go to the temple to do baptisms with a recent convert in our ward, Nastya. It was her first time to the temple and my first time in the Kyiv temple! It was so beautiful and reminded me of the peace that we feel when we go to the temple.

In Elder Rasband's talk he talked about fears. One way he said to set fears aside is to stand in Holy Places. When we go to the temple, we can receive answers to our problems or find peace to set those worries aside. Nastya was able to experience the peace of the temple and it was such a happy day! 

Sorry for the long email this week but I hope you all had a wonderful conference weekend! 

Love, 

Cectpa Daines 

Pictures: 
1. Temple with Nastya 

2. Conference with our Shawarma 

3. Our awesome "Free Book" sign that we made last P-day 

4. My favorite guy "Dzi Dzi" strikes again

5. Another Zone Conference temple selfie 

6. Eating burgers on P-day 

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