May 9

The mission is going really well, I'm about to be transferred (for the first time haha) on may 17, so a little less than two weeks. I wonder where I'll end up. Anyways, the time spent with Elder Scott was amazing. Did you know he is short? I am taller than he is, which I thought was really strange. I don't know why, but I always pictured him as being really tall. It was amazing though. He came to Stake Conference here in the Kinston Stake, which Greenville is in, so we got to go to both sessions of conference with him, plus he held a special meeting that we were able to bring investigators and recent converts to, and he would talk with them, and answer their questions, and then the saturday before stake conference he had a 4 hour meeting with us missionaries, which was amazing. He talked, and Elder Cornish of the 70 who was with him talked, and then he just let us ask questions about anything. It was really spiritual. So that went well. His testimony was incredible. He said "I don't say this to be prideful, but so you will understand what I will say next. I am an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. I hold all the keys of the Kingdom of God, and I am a special witness of him. I know that Jesus is the Christ and that he lives. I know he lives, and my testimony of him isn't based on my scripture study, or on prayer, but on fact. He is a glorified, resurrected being of perfect love, and I can certify this because I know him." It was incredible to hear him bear witness of the savior, the spirit was so powerful when he did so.

So we are e-mailing on Wednesday instead of Monday because this week was temple trip! but that takes the place of our P-day, so we worked all day Monday, and we just got back from the temple today and are e-mailing before we go out to work tonight. The Raleigh temple is really quite small, in fact I think it's about the size of most stake centers. It is an amazing temple though, it is very beautiful, and the spirit was just as strong inside of it as it was in the Saint George Temple. I loved going, I have really missed being able to go to the temple all of the time. It will be another 6 months before I can go again, but it was amazing to go.