April Fool's Week

Hello Everyone--


This week was interesting. We got a funny (after the fact) April fools joke played on us by the assistants.

On Friday night at 10:15pm we got a message from the AP's that were clarifying the rules for conference, then it said that since finding is down in the mission, President has said that we could only go to one session of conference each day, and that during the other one we need to be finding.... WHAT!!!!!!!!!! NO, THAT IS NOT COOL! I was SO mad! That totally didn't sound like president at all. We didn't know if it was for real or not. For longer than we should have, S. Page and I were talking it all through. It was just making me mad... needless to say I didn't sleep very well that morning. At 7 am we called the Manchester sisters to see if they had gotten the message too. They had, and were just as mad. They talked me into calling the Zone leaders to ask them. So at 7:20 am I call them. I start the call by saying, "Elders, we have a serious issue!!!" They talked to us about it, and said it was real and we should call our district leader to get everything figured out. So we called him. He told us he would call us back, and let us know. Well by 9:15, no one had called us back. So we called our district leader again. He said our phone was breaking up, so he would call us right back. Well like 3 min. later he finally called back.

We were talking about it (well S. Page was, because I was SO mad!!), and he asked her how she felt. She said she was bummed. Then he asked me, since I was being so quiet, and that's not like me. I held in most of my anger, and just said, " I just want to know what is going on, so that we can plan things, and get everything figured out." They were like okay. Well you can go to whatever ones you want. We get to go to Priesthood tonight, and the AP's will be at all 4 sessions, so it doesn't matter when you come, because there will for sure be missionaries at all the sessions." When I heard that I had to walk out of the room. I was going to explode on the Elders. I was livid!!! Why would the AP's get to go to all of them and not us... They have the least amount of finding time out of everyone in the mission. As I'm walking back into the room I hear one of the AP's voices on the phone say "APRIL FOOLS!!!" What! The reason why it took so long for our District leader to call back, was because he made it a 3 way call with the AP's so they could hear our reactions.... Oh boy, I was still so mad, but laughing so hard it made my eyes water.

Best (and worst) April fools joke they could have played. After they called us, they called the Manchester sisters, and did they same thing to them. The joke went way better than they had planned!!! Wow, it was really funny, after the fact. Sister Hatch and I had gotten SO mad, it wasn't even funny!!!!

That's really the only thing that happened this week. We found a couple potential investigators, and will be following up with them this week hopefully!

Conference was AMAZING!!! I loved so many of the talks.... granted the marriage ones were awkward!!! You had 8 missionaries in a room with only like 10-15 members, and they are calling out all the single guys to get married. We all laughed a lot!!! I try to pick my favorite talks, and then I end up listing like half of them!! haha. I hope you all were able to watch it, and learn a lot! Conference is amazing!!!! I'm so grateful that we have living prophets and apostles on the earth today to lead and guide us!!

Well, keep writing! :)