We get conference a week late here in the Philippines and unfortunately the vast majority of members only watch the Sunday morning session. We wish they would catch the vision of it being a 2-day conference and they should attend Saturday both sessions, plus priesthood for the men and both sessions on Sundays. Our missionaries always attend all the sessions and on Sunday we fix the missionaries from Cauayan Zone a quick lunch during the hour break. We always enjoy hearing their reaction to the conference talks. This year there was a wonderful announcement that the age for missionary service has been lowered to 18 (from 19) for males and 19 (from 21) for females. Already the numbers of normal missionary applications has risen from 500-700 per week to 4,000. We've heard our church leaders prophesy that the work is about to burst forth and with all these new missionaries we believe it's going to happen. Our mission will soon grow from having 150 missionaries to having 250 missionaries! (Oh boy the Shaners, our housing coordinators, are going to be super busy finding new apartments!) We are so excited about these changes and believe that it will provide the added missionary force to truly share this glorious gospel with more people.
Our Cabatuan Sisters: Sister Klein and Sister Saez.
Conference was a time for missionaries to see their counterparts from other towns nearby. Here our San Mateo sisters (Sister Ramos and Cajigal) meet up with our Cabatuan sisters.
President made his ham fried rice and we served it with a huge green salad along with ice cream and homemade chocolate chip cookies. Nothing fancy but yummy!
We are anxious to receive our conference edition of the Liahona so that we can really study the talks. They were all so great!
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