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What a week to be alive! 

        We've been watching Book of Mormon videos all week and they're actually so good. I'm like on the edge of my seat even though I've read the book- the movie is always better, you know? And who doesn't have a crush on Nephi like...? Actually though, I'm really glad they created them. I'm a visual learner myself and The Book of Mormon can be really confusing for a lot our French-speaking amis with no reading background (understandably). So I think it's really cool that they're doing this. 

      And then of course, General Conference! I haven't seen all the sessions yet but the women's session was beautiful. I loved the music of all the little girls - so powerful to hear children sing their simple testimonies of Christ. I also loved the new theme for the Young Women. It's always really inspiring to hear so many strong women speak. And Sunday morning, President Nelson's talk about all the fruits that have come from our discipleship made me proud to be a member of this church. It was a great conference and I'm already looking forward to the next one.

        One more reason that it was a great week was due to the mass number of friends missionaries brought to the temple!!! We taught so many people about temples and even helped set dates to go, I've never seen so many happy people. We had elders just hanging out at the temple all day because they invited so many people to have lessons there (the elders want to be temple sœurs I think). Last week, I finally got to go to the temple for the first time in months and I was just sitting in the Celestial Room thinking, "Wow what a happy place." I'm so glad that Heavenly Father loves us enough to give us temples. Even though we still have problems, when I am there I don't feel anything but warmth and peace. What a blessing to get to invite people to prepare to have that same opportunity every day.

I love you all and hope you all had a fabulous conference!

Sœur McOmber 

My favorite Brazilian family- The Essers! They have the cutest little girls (all with afros, it's adorable). They're always so motivated to do missionary work too, love that!