Week 7- First Mission Conference!

Note from Mom:  Emily wrote this on her last Preparation Day Monday 6/3/19, but I'm just getting around to posting it (sorry--first week of summer piano teaching and planning:).  She didn't have much time to write this past week, but I'm so grateful she still sent something to share with us all!  Her next p-day is this coming Wednesday.  

From Emily:

Hey everyone since our p-day rotates it's only been like 5 days but here we go! This last Friday we had our first mission conference with all the site missionaries! Our Area 70, Elder Bennett, is really amazing and he took time to testify to us site sisters about how amazing the work is that we are doing. I guess he brought his family here last year and his grandson who wasn't planning on going on a mission changed his mind because of us and now has a call to West Africa! Then a roommate of his daughter was a Lutheran and they convinced her to come out here and was touched and now is baptized! It was really neat. 

This is a  picture one of the sweet senior missionaries posted
on the Facebook site for parents right after the meeting with Elder Bennett.

We switched on June 1 to a 9 am - 9 pm schedule. It's really long, but we'll survive :). Also on the 7th I reach 1 month in the field! Crazy. 

We've had some really neat tours with families and the spirit is really strong as we testify and they can feel the spirit of these sites. It's fun when we can just connect instantly with certain families or individuals.  We had one family who came to the log home one evening right before closing and was just sitting outside looking like they were trying to decide what to do.  We approached them after a tour and asked if they'd like us to take them around, and they said they'd probably just come back the next day since it was getting late.  They just didn't want to make us late, but we connected with them pretty quickly and convinced them to let us take them through the log home.  Their recently returned missionary son recited the first vision in the log home with his whole family, and they were super moved--it was great!  It's pretty awesome to be a part of this.

Not a whole lot more to report, but just know the church is true, the Book of Mormon is SO amazing, and the Lord is in every details of our lives.

Love, Sister Potts

Fun Facts:

1.  The next owners of the Frame home (after Joseph Smith's family) added on to the home, but the church was able to remove them to reveal the original structure.

2.  The next owners also cleared some land but didn't touch the sacred grove!

I'm out of time i'll add more next week!