I LOVED General Conference

 

The flowers are every where here!!!!  Monday we went to the Queenstown Gardens.  It was just unbelievable!  I could not of asked for a better place to serve my mission.  The people are fantastic and there are so many cultures here, and the land is just unbelievable!  I am definitely planning a trip back to Queenstown!  This week I ran into an Elder who served in Queenstown, and he is now back there visiting with his wife!!!  He just went home in March too!  It is just so beautiful here!

It is really starting to warm up down here!  However, we are still in between seasons as one day it will be warm and everyone will be out on the lake, and then the next day, it is freezing and there is snow on the mountain.  

Elder Richardson got his drivers license this week so he has been driving me around a bit.  We have almost died a couple of times.  I am sorry to Mary for telling her she was a bad driver... She is not...  I now know what bad is.  We were driving to Gore on Tuesday, and he was still getting used to driving on the wrong side of the road, so he got too close to the edge a couple times and went in the dirt.  It was so scary!  All is well though, no car flipping or anything like that.  He has gotten heaps better just this week, so we are okay now. 

This week was amazing.  I loved General Conference!  I am pretty sure it was the best General Conference of my life.    I loved Elder Dube's talk so much.  It was great to hear him speak with such enthusiasm.  Saturday conference was my all time favorite.  We got two of our investigators to come to both sessions.  They are so into the bible and love reading it and they read it with the spirit which is the most important!  They have found so much through the bible, it is just crazy!  Since following the spirit and reading the bible, they have learned about the godhead, and they totally understand the plan of salvation and use bible verses to back it up.  They already live the word of wisdom, and they told us that if they had talked to us a year ago, they would of said that we were crazy,  but since they have found out truths for themselves, through the spirit, they believe the things we teach them are true.  It is really cool to see how The Lord prepares people to come unto his fold.  This couple have definitely been prepared to meet us on the path about a month ago.  After all of this, we asked them if they would be baptized, and they said "Let us learn more about your church and we will decide".  They came to the first session of conference and learned about tithing, and heard from our prophet welcoming them to the meeting, then learned about the Holy Ghost, and then the last talk from Elder Uchtdorf put the cherry on top!  He said, come and join the Church of Jesus Christ and help with the work.  It was so amazing!  They were so impressed by what they saw that they were now asking when they could be baptized!  They said "this is the best organization that I have ever seen!, and the last talk made us feel so welcome and wasn't pushy at all!  We really enjoyed it".   

I am so grateful for General Conference and it  opened my eyes of how powerful and beautiful the church is.  I am so grateful for the apostles and prophet and that we get to hear from them every 6 months!  This was seriously one of the best weekends of my entire mission!  I can hardly explain it!  I am so grateful to be part of this church and know that Jesus Christ has restored it to the earth today so we can all be a part of it in the latter days.  We are here to help one another and to endure to the end until the Savior, himself comes again!  

I love you guys so much!

Elder Tuckett

Hanging out by the lake -- the weather has been so nice!

My companion and I. [they take these photos and then they print them up as thanks you notes]