Janna Mills: Week 28

Happy halloweenie!!! This morning I sang that song "i'm a mean old witch with a hat and i ride on my broom with my cat!" so sister fekete, she loved it. ha ha ha ok SO no I'm not moving- 7 1/2 months in Exeter, here I come!!!! Will it be 9 months? ... we'll see. :) ha ha yesterday was stake conference and it was so funny because so many people from other wards/ branches came up to me "Sister Mills, you're still here!?" ha ha ha BUT Sister Fekete is leaving me for Haywards Heath. (Close to the temple so she will be closer for her surgery and what not which speaking of is just next week!) but she is still here with me!! Tuesday night we got home and Sister Sebald and Priestley were there to sleep over for traveling the next morning and we started to quickly pack all of Fekete's stuff and then we got a call from the zone leaders "actually sister Fekete you aren't moving... for another week" Sister Gregson (from Holiday, Utah!!) who will be my new companion has a driving test in London this Thursday so they just decided to let her and Fekete stay where they are until after that- yes!! We were well excited. We still had to go on a roadtrip on Wednesday up to the temple and back because the 2 sisters were going in completely different directions, so Fekete and I were their stand in companions for the day but it was great because we got to run into the distribution center to get a big picture of Christ for our investigator David!

Let's see... oh one of the reasons we were so chuffed that Fekete is staying for another week is because bishop and his wife had told us they would take us out for a proper curry, so Thursday night that's exactly what we did and it was so delicious! They LOVE their curry here in England. This morning we also got a phone call from a Hungarian lady that is in England for the week and is passing through Exeter today. Fekete's mum knows her and Sister Fekete's mum actually gave us a referral from this lady so today when we meet her we are going to meet that referral as well! After Sister Fekete got off the phone she was just like.... and that's probably another reason why I'm still here in Exeter. :) It's amazing how perfectly God aligns things for the benefit of His children. I know He is so conscious of us and our needs.

Like I said earlier yesterday was stake conference in Plymouth and it was amazing. President Shamo and his wife spoke and then the stake presidency spoke as well. 2 recently returned missionaries from the stake also spoke and all of them gave such wonderful talks. A lot of them talked about covenants, the atonement, and true conversion. One thing the stake president said that I loved was "Testimony is a point of departure NOT destination. Conversion is the destination." You can have a testimony without being converted.. I have seen it so much here with the people we are working with. You know what? That's ok! Because it is your testimony that will help you get to conversion. President Martin talked about how the key to conversion truly is The Book of Mormon. The more we read The Book of Mormon, they more we feel the spirit and God's love for us and the more we want to DO the things that God asks us to do. So if you feel like you don't want to keep the commandments or go to church open The Book of Mormon and find out why those little things are SO important. You will find it in The Book of Mormon!!

Oh we also got to go down to Plymouth for the adult session of stake conference on Saturday because they told us about 2 days before that they wanted the missionaries to sing at the session! So we met 10 minutes before the conference, went through the song once and then had to perform. I'll tell you what... the Lord helps you in ALL you do if it is His will. ha ha because when we practiced we sounded horrid but when we performed somehow we sounded good. Not just good but kind of great! ha ha it was well cool. Oh President Fullwood from the stake presidency spoke as well (he is from the Exeter ward!) and he talked about The Book of Mormon as well- he talked about how if you have a problem with hearing you get a hearing aid. So if you have a problem with DOING... what is the doing aid? The Book of Mormon. :) (By the way President Fullwood is nearly completely deaf and there is a man on the high council who is deaf and there is a deaf school here in Exeter and they all teach there- seriously about half of our ward teaches there, so at church they all take turns signing for President Fullwood and I love it. It is so cool! 3 members in our ward including the bishop and his wife served sign language missions here in the British Isles!)

Well tonight for Halloween we are going to Bishops house for a halloween and they are inviting tons of their friends over ;) so it is going to be sweet! We are really excited. The kids came up to us at stake conference yesterday telling us all about the haunted house they are going to make for us ha ha they are so cute. Oh did I mention the bishop and his wife have 7 kids, the oldest is 13 and the youngest is 2... their house is a mad house, I love it!

These are a few of my favourite things:

*Driving through all of Southern England on a foggy autumn day. The colours are fabulous!

*Actually knitting something that I can wear!!!! I'll send pictures next week :D

*Still being able to teach in the parks.... occassionally :)

*Waking up at 6:30 but oh wait... it's only 5:30- we got to sleep for an extra hour. It was delicious. (the only downside to the time change is that it is almost dark at half 4 in the afternoon :( )

Ok love you! Bye!