Hola familia!! 

WOW!!!! Conference was just amazing!  We went to Valparaíso for conference which was really fun. We listened to it in english which was a huge blessing!! We were able to see all of conference which was also really nice because I heard Sara was not able to see the saturdays sessions because she didn’t have an investigator there with her. That’s really sad because it´s a time to listen to the Prophets of the Lord. 

When we got to Valpo it was insane! they have this huge street fair every Saturday and Sunday the first of every month. So it´s kind of crazy with people everywhere and food.  When we got into the building and started to prepare for conference, all of the spanish elders and Hermana Paz went into the main room to watch and the english elders and I all stayed in another room to watch it. We all pulled out bags of food, I wanted to feel a little at home with how much food we eat during conference so I brought a lot of candy and stuff (not really candy because candy is expensive, more like cookies). It was fun. During the Sunday session one of the elders leaned over to me and said You need a typewriter, because you don’t take notes you write a novel. I just laughed because I do take a lot of notes but it just really inspires me all they say so I write it down. 

I loved all of conference and was really sad to see it end. It’s such a spiritual time and such an edifying of the soul which I love so much. I´m not sure what talk was my favorite but I really loved President Uchtdorf´s talk on darkness and light. He talked about everyone has the light of Christ in them but we need to act on that light. It´s also important to remember that we will all have dark times but we can be a light shining in the darkness. A thought came to me that we need to be a light not only for ourselves but when there is darkness all around us, other people can’t see the way as well and it´s important to be a light for others to follow. I loved his stories about the girl in the darkness and the African people singing in the darkness. I love that.

I loved Sister Dalton´s talk as well. She is such an amazing woman and I´m sad to see her leave the presidency of the Young women. She has such a love for the women of the church. While I was watching her speak I could see a glow around her whole body. She literally was glowing and the spirit was so strong when she spoke. I love sister Dalton so much and she is such a light to the world that when people see her speak they want the light and the joy she has. 

We had a baptism in between the Sunday sessions which ended up being really beautiful. All the missionaries in the zone were there and we sang "I like to look for rainbows" it was great even though we are the only sister missionaries and all the elders are tone deaf haha somehow it still sounded beautiful. 3 people were baptized yesterday and they were all so emotional and beautiful. It was a joyous day! 

We had one of our investigators go to the saturday session which was really great. We are teaching them tonight and we will discuss conference with them and how they felt. They are one of the families we have with a baptism for the 20th of Abril. As well as another woman and her two kids. They are amazing people and we are really excited for them. 

So this week. We went to a members house to have a family home evening and while we waited for our investigator to show up the little boy of the family (is about 6) asked his dad to turn on the music. They hooked everything up to the tv and then turned on the video on youtube of michael jackson´s first time ever doing the moonwalk. The little boy danced and sang the whole song of michael jackson and tried to copy his every move. it was so cute and so fun!! I wish I had a video of it but i didn’t think about it until later. The Family Home Evening went well and we taught her more about baptism.  She is amazing and knows so much because she studies what we give her.  She is so prepared to be baptized!!

We have another investigator who just had her baby!! the baby is so cute and small. It’s been nice to see a new baby because it makes me feel like I´m not missing out with Michael. Even though I can’t hold the baby it’s still nice to be with a baby that is straight from the presence of God. 

Oh, we also have a member in the ward that we are super close with named Logan. He is 18 and really fun and helps us out a lot by coming to our appointments. He just received his mission call to Brazil and we are so excited for him! The whole ward is going crazy about him and his new mission call. It´s so exciting. He is a little bit higher than where Sara is.  I was hoping it would be where Sara is but Brazil is really huge and that was a really small chance. 

Mom I did as you said and I have been trying to study as much as I can on Rebekah and Isaac. They have such a tender love. I love that it´s basically love at first sight because when Rebekah see´s Isaac she hurries off her camel to run and meet him. I loved that, but also that Rebekah was preparing herself for a long time and because of that she was able to have the love of her life. If she had not been preparing herself she would have never been the one that the servant chose to come back with him to marry Isaac. It´s such a beautiful love story :)

I love you all and i hope you have a great week!!! Keep working hard in all you do and remember the words of the prophets. It´s important to review our notes on things because it helps us remember the feelings we felt (especially with conference since we don’t get the ensign of the conference talks for about 1-2 months). I would challenge you all to re-read your notes until the ensign comes out and then you can re-read all of the talks until the following conference. 

I love you all so much!! I hope you have a great week!! Let me know how my little Michael is doing! I love you all! Until next week!

Con amor,

Hermana Tycksen

P.S. all the elders have been telling me my spanish is really good for only being here for a month. They said that my spanish is way above where any of theirs for their first month, so that was really nice to hear.   I feel like it’s not as good as it should be but it´s come a long way since my first week here. 

Also a fun fact. No sister missionaries are transferring this week so we have transfers in 6 weeks. But there is a possibility that if we get new sisters next transfer (depending on how many we get) some of the new girls that came in with me might be training either a new girl or someone we came in with. There was about 8 new girls that came in with me so if we get at least 6 new girls then that takes all our trainers and then the other sisters will be put together. Anyway, kind of fun fact! Love you all!!

-Em