A mission is a good place to turn 21

I made an orange jello cake with the frosting and sprinkles on top and I bought rice icecream, crushed up the cookies, and had cookies and cream icecream. It was everything I wanted and more, cause we watched Johnny Lingo, too. Also played volleyball (nothing like getting the ball in your face to tell you "Happy 21st!" :) I'm fine. Nothing's broken. :) Overall, I had a good birthday. A mission is a good place to turn 21.

This week was good! Yesterday, Elder Kopishke of the Seventy came to visit us. It was a really good half-mission conference. He didn't so much as preach at us as much as he just helped us answer our questions. He took us into the scriptures and helped us find our own answers, kind of how to find and follow revelation when studying. It was really cool! He began by saying, "I don't have an agenda for this meeting. I haven't prepared a talk. I think I know my scriptures, and we're just going to have a meeting full of the Spirit!" He then had us write down some questions we had and then he told us, "You have just written your own agenda for this meeting. As we talk, when you feel you should go look up a scripture, look it up. As your question gets answered, you may have more questions, which is fine! As you get those questions and you feel you should look up another scripture, go look it up! and in this manner, you will have your own meeting." It was a really good conference. In the morning, it was one long bitter sip of humble juice, and then in the afternoon, it was more of a soothing balm, but it was great! I'm using what I learned about receiving revelation for my personal studies, and I'm learning so much!

After the meeting, Elder Kopishke met with a few of us and had an interview with him. I got to be one of the lucky ones to meet with him and it was great! He quoted his favorite scripture in German for me (his native language is German). I really enjoyed it. President Riggs told me before I went in why he (President Riggs) was doing it. He said, "November is going to be hard for the hermanas. So I asked for these interviews so that they would have more motivation." I thought it was really kind of him.

High point of the week: On Wednesday, we had six lessons on Facebook! I taught two and Hna. Moleli taught four! In two hours, we met our weekly goal for other lessons (lessons taught without a member present). It was awesome! 

Birthday cake with 21 candles.

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Hermana Moleli and Hermana Brown eating birthday cake and Oreo ice cream.