Howdy!! Conference for sure was amazing!  All the talks were amazing and seemed to focus a lot on our duty as disciples of Christ to help, love, and serve.  It was definitely a needed message for me.  That is awesome news about how conference went back home. To answer your questions, since the temple is outside of our mission we can only go every 6 months for a zone conference, luckily the 6 months is finally up and we will be going here in April.  I have definitely missed the temple but I am really excited.  And as for needed things maybe just a talk, one by Christofferson in the June 2001 ensign I think entitled "Justification and Sanctification". I've recently grown to like Christofferson a lot, true story.  Maybe some ties, those are always nice.

So this past week has been eventful, we received a new training for giving church tours to members to get member referrals, we tried it this past week and it worked pretty well. Another day while we were riding, Elder Soutas' bike pedal completely broke off and he wrecked. Earlier in the week we talked to this lady, Angela King, a really less active member.  She told us how she hadn't been to church in about 7 years but we talked for awhile and parted ways. Then on Saturday, we stayed on the other side of the island, by the church, since we were at conference. As we were walking around and didn't know the area at all we decided to knock an apt complex to kill time between conference.  We saw an open door upstairs so we decided to go up there, it ended up being Angela King and we talked and invited her to church; she along with us thought it was a sign that God really wanted her to go back to church.  She also told us how she was going to a bible study at another church and the pastor was trying to get here baptized there but for some reason or another she didn't want to get baptized there.  Then later that day the other elders ran into her, the Lord really wants her back like the 1 lost sheep.

Sis. Saylin was submitted to the hospital and the doctors told her she was going to have her baby prematurely and that it probably wouldn’t survive if that happened, so Pres. Saylin asked all the missionaries to include her in their prayers, which we did, and we got a text this morning that she miraculously healed and she was sent home and all is well now.  We were able to get this awesome investigator family to conference also and they are progressing quite nicely.  Anyways, hope you all have a great week and seek to apply the words of the living prophets to your lives and receive the blessings!

Love, Elder Cooley