Christmas Conference

This past Saturday and Sunday, all of the Ft Lauderdale missionaries gather at the Plantation Chapel for a Christmas Buffet and Devotional. Then sunday, we went to the coral Springs chapel and were treated to a visit from President Dieter F. Uchtdorf and his wife. The mission choir sang the prelude for us. All the choir seats were full and they had to bring in four more chairs. These young people have great voices and we have some very talented musicians.

President and Sister Hale spoke to us first. Sister Hale spoke about memories and President Hale spoke about shaking the hand of a prophet. He had all the congregation come forward and shake hands with President and Sister Uchtdorf. What a privilege.

Sister Uchtdorf talked about the blessings of Christmas cards and President Uchtdorf talked about the joy of service and doing the best you can and asking for forgiveness at the end of each day. He said not be a character, but to have character. They then gave everyone a Christmas Card signed by the first presidency.

Today, we are going out to buy more Christmas Cards and send them to these people we have been teaching. We had seven more people go to the Orlando Temple this last Saturday.