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Conference!

Its April! And the beginning of my 2nd transfer! I feel so blessed to be where I am today and feel even more blessed to be a member of the Lords church and a servant to him at this time. For those of you that are not LDS, we had our general conference this weekend. Twice a year we get to hear from our prophet and leaders from our church, it is a beautiful experiecne! (go to lds.org to see more). I cannot think of another time in my life (almost 24 years...ahh!)that I have received so much inspiration and felt the spirit so strongly listening to the Lords prophet and apostles during conference. I was trying to pick out a favorite talk last this morning to share today but there was just too much beautiful insight to choice from!
Saturday we watched the morning session (6pm here) at a members home with an investigator. I felt so spoiled to be sitting on a couch with my blanket, a bowl of homemade soup and with people that i have grown to love! Sunday we watched the Sat pm session and the Sun morning session at the stake center in Rotterdam. Most of the missionaries from the area were there and the sr couple made us sloppy joes and sweet rolls so we were well fed in all ways that day! It was one of my favorite weekends yet!
I have never felt more blessed to be a member of this church. listening to our leaders give us inspiration and guidance has never felt so good. I have been loving my study time so much lately and feel like so much of my studies prepared me to more fully understand the talks this weekend. So many of the scriptural examples were ones that i have read and pondered in the last few weeks. i loved relating the talks to the needs of our investigators and members and i cannot wait to share them with them this week! President Monson laid out the plan of salvation so perfectly for us and i was able to share that with a man on the train on the way home. I loved the many talks on forgiveness and judgement. the lord knows his children. I love the bumper sticker example from Uchtdorf "Dont judge me because I sin different than you". So true :)
Elder Scott gave the perfect talk for one of my investigators but also gave so much guidance in a very "normal" sounding way. I didnt even realize how much guidance was given from that talk until i reread my notes later. my favorite quote was "a good sense of humor helps revelation". My laughter gets me through everyday and I am happy to hear that it helps me to receive relelation as well :) I encourage you all to relisten to individual talks!

I had a gift of tongues experience this week that was just crazy! i talked in a lesson for almost 40 mins and was not even noticing that it was all (well mostly) in dutch! my language skills are definitely improving and i am so grateful! i still have a long way to go but the progession is strengthening my faith.

Didnt have much time this week so most of this is taken out of my letter home so I apologize if its a bit spastic! love you and all and hope you have a great Easter!
<3<3Zuster Jones