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Dear Family and Friends,

I had a wonderful general conference weekend here in Yukon and I hope y'all had a wonderful weekend as well receiving revelation from prophets, seers, and revelators! :)

Monday we got to do some service helping a member fix his power chair :)

Tuesday some less-actives took us out to lunch so that was awesome! Not too much happened in the afternoon, in the evening we had dinner with some members and got rebuked by the Dad for looking tired and not being excited enough so that was interesting...

Wednesday morning our lesson with Joseph fell through, we did some service in the afternoon at the community center, and we had an awesome miracle! So about a month and a half ago we tracted into this guy named Vince who said he had a cousin who's Mormon and that his cousin was going to come visit him soon and give him a Book of Mormon. He didn't seem too interested in meeting with us at the time but we wrote down his info with the intent to try him at some point in the future. Well Wednesday I felt prompted to go try him so we went to his house and he was there! He said we were lucky to catch him at home and that his cousin wasn't able to come visit. So we offered him a Book of Mormon and he accepted it and talked to us for a while. I'm excited to go back and teach him :) In the evening we visited a single lady who has been less-active for a couple years because she works on Sundays. But between the day we set up the appointment and the actual day of the appointment, she talked with her boss and got Sunday mornings off so she can come to church now. So cool!

Thursday morning we planned and in the afternoon we tracted. Our appointment with Danny fell through but we spotted some people who were moving out of their house so we walked over to them. As we approached, one of them said, "Unless you're hear to help, we're not interested". We replied, "Well that's why we're here, to help y'all out." And what did they say? "Oh, we don't need any help, we've got it under control." Some people... After dinner we went with the Elders Quorum President out to El Reno to give someone a blessing :)

Friday morning we had district meeting and discussed the church's Easter Initiative for this year, "Prince of Peace". If you haven't seen the video yet, you need to. It's amazing! www.mormon.org After district meeting we did a lot of biking, tracting, and giving pass-along cards to members :) We had to drop one of our investigators because he doesn't have much desire unfortunately. After dinner we visited the Edwards family and showed them the new Easter video :)

Saturday we spent basically the whole day at the stake center watching conference with some other missionaries. It was basically Christmas for me :)

Sunday morning we watched conference and ate lunch with a less-active family and then we watched the afternoon session with our neighbor members, the Baileys. Then we had dinner with the Edwards family and had a lesson with a recent convert family. It was an amazing day :)

One of the themes that really struck me during General Conference was the idea of viewing others through God's eyes. Having the ability to see others for their divine identity as children of God instead of for their sins or weaknesses. It's so easy to judge others and I all too frequently find myself making that mistake. God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance (D&C 1:31) but he doesn't recoil from us because he's able to separate the sin from the sinner. He views us a spiritually sick and harmed and therefore in need of love and attention. Let us all behold others for who they are, and give them the love and the care that they need. Charity is truly the greatest of all :)

Thank y'all so much for all your love and support, have a great week!

Love, Elder Larsen

D&C 98:3

1. Oil rig

2. Conference cinamon rolls