We had a good beginning of the week, but I woke up on Wednesday with a raging sore throat, either from a cold or allergies. We kept it calm during the afternoon and then went to a lesson with D in the evening. She is still pretty much the greatest! We taught the Word of Wisdom, and she quickly committed to keep it. We are so proud of her! She is looking forward to being baptized sometime in June.
I basically waged all-out war on my cold/allergies so that by Thursday, I was feeling almost completely better. That was a blessing, because I was also leading the music at zone conference! Yay zone conference! It was excellent. We had it up in Greensboro, which meant I got to see Sister Berthelson! She is doing so good! We talked a lot anout the basics: how to begin teaching, developing teaching skills and keeping the name of Christ on our lips at all times. One of the quotes I liked, by Elder Neil L. Anderson, said something like, "No matter how much we speak of Him, it is never too much." President Alexander also told us about his experience being called as a mission president. It was a very neat, very spiritual story- being interviewed by one of the twelve Apostles and then being called by the First Presidency. He reminded us that President Adler, who will be here July 1st, is going through all of that now and how we will need to support him when he comes.
This whole weekend was essentially drowning in rain. Even when it wasn't actively raining the humidity was between 80-100%, so we were practically swimming. It made for an interesting Friday at the barn. Luckily we were in the barn for the worst of it, and no one was going anywhere because it was basically flooded.
Saturday was so exciting! We went to a women's conference with the Winston-Salem, High Point, and Greensboro stakes. The most exciting part was that Sister Jean Bingham, the Relief Society General President, was speaking! We actually walked right past her in the hallway just before it started while we were on the way to the bathrooms. She smiled and said hi. We smiled back and played it cool until we were around the corner and I said "That was the person we're all here to see" and Sister Willson said "Yep." Apparently we have great bathroom timing because I also got to see a few members from Burlington and Sister Alexander while we were there.
Sister Bingham was such an amazing speaker! She was also very "real" and very funny. She actually ended her talk super early because she thought the conference ended a half-hour earlier than it did. The stake president was trying to stall by asking her questions about herself before they figured out what had happened and we had a good laugh over that.
The talks during the conference were great as well! The theme was "Abish, Dorcas, and You: Covenant Women of the House of Israel." It's kind of a mouthful, but it was basically how we as women could be powerful forces for good as we kept our covenants with God. One of my favorite parts was someone quoting Sister Sheri Dew: "It's no secret that we are the Lord's secret weapons."
Super miracle story on Sunday! D was finally able to come to,church with her grandma, which was the first part of the miracle. Now, we didn't know this until they came, but D's grandma is a native Spanish speaker. She speaks English, too, but we could tell she was a little uncomfortable. Well, who should be speaking that day but the high councilor assigned to the Spanish branch... that meets in our same building... at the same time as us! We had no sooner escorted D to primary than her grandma was whisked away (we had nothing to do with this, it was all members) to join the Spanish-speaking Sunday school. The Spanish elders said she was participating and contributing with the rest of the class. When she came back out, she looked so much happier and decided to attend the Spanish Relief Society as well. When church was over, she and D had both had a great time. We are so excited to see them there next week! Members are the best!
Well this is practically an epistle at this point, and there are a couple of spiritual experiences in there, so I will leave it at that! Here's to another great week in Bethania!
Love,
Sister Reay
On a wet wet day
It's hard to take selfies with horses
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