MLC and Zone Conference

Xin Chao everybody!
Between Mission Leadership Conference (MLC) and Zone conference this week you better believe I'm just as excited and ready as can be!

For MLC we went up to the new mission home in Hanoi and it is sooo beautiful! It reminded me of a good old normal house in Kaysville! So that was cool! The coolest part of MLC though was I came with 3 questions from the sisters in my zone and without me bringing up any of them all of my questions where answered during our discussion! Just another testimony that the Spirit really guides our discussions and this work!

Then Zone Conference was awesome! For the zone training we basically picked apart part of the movie "how to train your dragon" and how the relationship between hiccup and toothless is exactly the same as our relationships as companions! That movie was seriously made for missionary companions. I have never thought so deeply or spiritually about a Dreamworks film before.

Also this week Anh Phong became an investigator! we have been meeting with him for a while to help him learn english and he helps us with vietnamese. But we always share little spiritual messages and gave him a book of mormon and he agreed to learn! He is so awesome and I am so excited for Him!

We also were able to give a baptismal date to Co Ngoc and her daughter Em Giao! Co Ngoc is the sweetest lady and she just wants to understand so so so bad! she is so sad she can't remember everything! She will record talks at church on her phone and our prayers and our lessons so she can review them to try and understand better! It's so cute! Her daughter is pretty chill but really likes church! It's cool cuz their other daughter who lives in america is a member and thats how they found out about the church! I love them so much!

We have been meeting people like crazy lately and it has been so much fun! We had kind of a funny miracle the other day when an investigator basically dropped us in the middle of a lesson. She was just done learning and I have the hardest time understanding her accent so it just was really awkward. But we walked down to the ground floor with her in the church and our next appointment is sitting there waiting and the two start talking and they are both older but super energetic and they fit and they just click and our investigator undropped us and they want to learn together and come to church together! So funny and so awesome!

Anyway that's about it! Love you all so much! Thanks for reading!
Love Sister Connell
pics

Look who i found in Vietnam! (This is a girl Jenna went to school with at Davis High) I'll be honest it was a little weird to connect face to face with someone i know again! haha

some serious flooding



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