Toured Boeing

Dear family,

I'm late emailing today because Sister Smith, Sister Wikstrom and Sister Tennant (some other sisters we have been living with the past few weeks) went this morning to tour Boeing! I've been wanting to tour Boeing for months now, and it was definitely worth it! It is the biggest building in the world, and not only is the building huge but the planes are HUGE! Some of which go through the assembly line and are finished in just a few days. Crazy!

The highlight of this week was that we had our first official lesson with LJ, and it was a powerful experience! The lesson started out a little rough and neither sister Smith or I felt like we were being given what to say or what questions to ask, but we both kept praying and at the end we were somehow given the right words. LJ said the prayer afterwards and we all knelt quietly for a good 5 minutes, the spirit was so strong. Finally Sister Smith asked LJ how he was feeling, and he started crying and said "I don't know." Sister Smith explained to him that what he was feeling was the spirit, and he just cried some more and nodded. There is nothing like seeing a grown man break down and weep because of the spirit that he feels.

The assistants asked Sister Smith and I to give instruction at Mission Leader Counsel this week. We've had to teach at zone meetings and interviews before, but this was just plain scary! Basically we taught President Bonham, the assistants, the zone leaders, and Sister Training Leaders in the mission about companionship study. It was intimidating and I felt pretty inadequate but it actually turned out to be a success! I talked a little bit about some of the principles I learned from my parents and watching their companionship and how those things apply to our companionships and helping our investigator "kids." I don't know if any of you knew this, but I have some pretty amazing parents!

What about that conference! It gets better and better every year! With all those talks about following the prophet, Sister Smith and I were sitting on the edge of our seats waiting for President Monson to do something crazy like call the Saints to Missouri or lower the age for missionaries or something! Next conference. :)

Love, Sister Slade