Road less traveled

We had an Asia Area Conference today.  It was so nice to go to a conference or church meeting and get the messages in English, not through a translator.  There were 4 speakers, Elder Brent Nielson, Sister Marriott, Elder Hallstrom, and Elder Gary Stevenson. It was a great meeting in which the following things were taught:

We need to increase our faith and one way to do this is for families to have spiritual time together--we pray that our reading the B of M, praying and having HE helped you and that you will continue these with your families.

We need to pray for spiritual strength to live & keep our covenants, which will get us eternal life. Covenants are our iron rod--a great blessing.

We can have peace, even in trials. The Savior can make trials lighter and we can help others by bearing each other's burdens.

Dads and moms need to work together in their families--it's a combined effort to help families get back to Heavenly Father.

We have a water specialist arriving from SLC this week so we will be touring all over Mongolia for the next 2 weeks.  We have more water requests.  The need is so great.  We hope some of these requests can be done to bless and help the people.  A water station helps them improve their health and it also makes things much more convenient; not as convenient as water tapped to their home/geir but still better than what many have to do to get water. 

This week is Tsgansar in Mongolia.  It is a big national holiday, much like our thanksgiving, except everything shuts down most of the week.  It was a little warmer Saturady around 25 degrees.  It was so.......o nice.