We had a very busy day on Monday, working with the younger missionaries and then watching the Ribet's four boys for a few hours. After all that, at about 5pm, we left town for Temple View (3 hours away) because we had a Zone Conference on Tuesday. This was our first zone conference where only about 1/4 of the mission gets together at a time and we receive instruction from the Mission president and his wife as well as others. We did go to a conference about 2 months ago but that time we met with the whole mission to hear Elder Renlund (a member of the twelve apostles) speak to us. So this Conference involved only about 50 missionaries instead of over 200. Here's a picture taken at the mission conference from two months ago, but its not enlargeable so you can't see much. Elder O'Neal and I are on the front row to the right. Elder Renlund, Sister Renlund, Elder Cardon and Sister Cardon are in the middle

Whenever we go to the Hamilton area, we always plan on doing a little shopping. This time we wanted to find some gospel art for our flat. There's a tiny church bookstore underneath the visitor's center at the Temple site so that was our destination.
We first found four awesome pictures and then asked them for four frames. Sadly, they only had two left in the store. So we kept all the pictures but only got to hang two of them. Here's our new artwork: The wall behind the dining room table-

And the wall at the top of the stairs:

Now it really feels like a missionary flat! It was a fun trip and we made it home safely in spite of tons of rain on the return trip and a few slips (or mud slides) that didn't affect the driving lanes.   Kia Ora, Elder and Sister O'Neal