Dear Family,
Another "in-mission" General Conference has come and gone (my last one
too (*sheds tear*)), and I'm happier than ever! All the talks were
amazing and they were all just what I needed. I realized that even
though we have some specific questions, there's at least one thing in
every single talk that can help us out greatly.
Some of my favorite talks were the ones from Uchdorf and Eyring in the
Priesthood Session, Robert D. Hales in the Sunday Morning, and Jeffery
R. Holland in the last session (he always gives the best talks,
doesn't he?) Their talks are where I had my questions answered.
Especially that talk from Holland. He's got quite the ability to plug
the Spirit right in.
What was everyone else's favorite talks?
What also makes me happy are the good news about Katie's surgery! I'm
glad she made it out alright! Down here, there was a member (the son
of my convert, Luis), who also recently had a bone marrow transplant.
He came out just fine! Luis and Elena were telling me that they had
been fasting to the best of their ability (which says a lot,
considering that Luis has some pretty bad diabetes). It reminds me of
what Holland says that the Lord can bless us and work miracles if we
try to do all we can.
We recently found some new investigators named Marlon and Elsa.
Marlon's very interested in it all, because he's grown up in a
Catholic family and noticed himself that some of the things they do in
that church aren't right. For example, we were teaching about
repentance. He stopped us and asked if we do the confession box thing.
We told him no, because repentance is between the person and the Lord.
After the lesson, he was actually very content, and he pointed out
that he likes what he hears and that we can be friends with him (yeah,
he said that :P). We'll be visiting our new friend much more
frequently!
Congratulations to Ammon for getting his mish call to England (is that
the same mission Peter went to?)
Love,
Adam
Zuster Lilli
Dearest Family and Friends...
Let it hereby be known that I am an introvert. I always thought that I was introverted to some extent but I never knew how bad it was. I have been looking forward to times when I am alone... basically the times in the shower and on the toilet. Those have become some of my best times here.
Despite
the need to be alone I count my self lucky that I get along with my
district so well. There are a few personalities here that do not mesh
well with mine, but you all know how I am. I'm pretty chill and can take
it.
General Conference here was good, although
I think I would take sitting on the couch in my jeans over sitting on
hard chairs over the span of 16 hours throughout the week, but the
messages were good and the spirit was strong, so my sore fanny was
compensated 
I think my favorite talk was Elder Holland's at the end. It was so
powerful, I couldn't even take notes because I was so engrossed in what
he was saying. I also enjoyed the woman's conference, and had a fun
surprise when we saw the second video and recognized one of my friends
from Footloose. Toni, she was the one that made friends with the Muslim
girl. I think that the girls here were tired of me pointing out people
I knew in the choir, there were about 10 that I was good friends with
and about another 10 that I had met before.
The
Dutch is coming every day, some days I wish that I was out in the field
already, but then I realize that I do not know the language well enough
yet. Although I keep hearing that you don't really learn the language
until you are there. In our zone we have the Hungarian and Turkish
missionaries, they know how to push our buttons. Whenever they hear us
speaking Dutch they say that it is just like speaking English with an
accent. IT. IS. NOT! But I will admit that it is easier to lean than
their languages.
I am so glad that Katie's
transplant is going well, I have been thinking about her all week. I
miss you guys like crazy, I have been saving lots of the eggs from my
package and opening them gradually through my stay here, they help a
ton.
I love Dad's hat and I'm glad that he came
home safely. With the recent terrorist attack in Belgium we had our
branch president and the MTC presidency come and talk to us and make
sure that we weren't freaking out or anything, they didn't really tell
us anything most of the information we got was from the family of other
missionaries in my district. Brussels is actually part of both the
Paris, France mission and the Belgium/Netherlands mission The
missionaries that got hurt were from the Paris, France mission, so the
Ambassador of the European Nations came and visited the missionaries
going to that mission instead of us 
On Thursday
I sang "How Can I Keep From Singing" for the Queen (that is what we
call the MTC president's wife), she loved us, although I probably won't
sing for a week or two because she said that they like to give the
missionaries leaving sooner a chance to perform but she said to expect
to sing sometime.
Well I Love you all and hope that this is a great week for everyone
Tot Ziens
Zuster Dixon
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