Welcome welcome Sabbath morning!

I enjoyed conference so much yesterday and look forward to more today! I was amazed at 5 more temples to be built and with the economy as it is; this only testifies who is really in charge. To have that much percentage of members living within 200 miles of a Temple was truly a testimony of the Lord's gospel filling the whole earth. I need to be more diligent in my prayers for those nations that do not yet have the gospel, as President Monson asked. I appreciated Elder Scott's reminder of how strong emotions overcome the delicate promptings of the Holy Spirit and shared the comparison of eating a grape and jalopeno pepper together. The several others talks on the Holy Ghost were inspiring as well. Our Heavenly Father so wants us to know about His love for us and how we need to express our love each day, because many of the talks spoke of this. Elder Bednar's insites on Hypocrisy and Elder Watson sharing so many scriptures on Temperance, became welcomed teachings for me. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ!

We attended a youth music fireside last Sunday where some of the youth who helped us during the summer, were participates. It was on Chastity and they truly expressed the truths of this important law very well. The sister missionaries, that we associate with often, brought a young man they are teaching and he really enjoyed it. Sister Butler and Amitoelau also told us that Lisa and her son finally made it to church and had an awesome experience. We have been to her home with the missionaries a couple of times and really felt her desire to know more. The sisters felt inspired to have Janet, another single mom with two sons and is a new convert, to go with them when they visit. They have all connected through this process and it is wonderful to see the results of listening to the Holy Spirit. We anxiously and prayerfully await the announcement of Lisa's baptism.

I would like to share a little more about Janet and how we first came to know her. She started coming to our office around the last of August looking for possible job leads as she was almost finished with school as a receptionist. She is such a example of what people can do when they want to take charge of their lives. She is somewhat handicapped, due to a tumor in her brain that could not be completely removed because of what it would do to her. It has affected her balance but not her desire to better her circumstances. She is a beautiful spirit inside and out and a good mother to her boys. She struggled with the conversion process but embraced it fully a few months ago. She has now finished school and with subsequent visits to our office to improve her résumé and make copies and apply for jobs, she started working on Monday for an Accountant's office. She had such a spiritual experience in answer to her prayers that it strengthen her testimony and her confidence. We felt priviledge that she would share the experience with us.

Nohemi, a more advanced piano student, has been playing the prelude music in her Ward Sacrament meetings to get more experience. Her Obispo (Bishop Garcia) has challenged her even more by asking her to be prepared to play for Sacrament Meeting next week as their regular person will be having surgery. I spent the lesson helping her get the introduction to each hymn marked and leading the hymn while she played so she could see how she needs to keep playing through the mistakes. Bishop Garcia also asked if I could help his ward by playing for their Primary Sacrament Presentation. I don't know how the practice times will work with our schedule but we will pray it can all work out.

September's Ensign, on page 16-21, will show you some of the great people we know. I was so excited to see this article so family and friends could read about the good people here. Sister Chamberlain is such a strength to her ward in Weslaco and we have enjoyed her love of the gospel when we visited there a couple of times. President Chandler is the Priesthood leader we work with in getting the Employment Center and the Wards being united. The Merwins are great people and we worked with two of their children when they were home for the summer from school at BYU. Bishop Rodriguez of the LaJoya Ward, is where we spoke when I gave my talk in Spanish. Brother Beltran is a custodian of the church buildings and we see him often and so enjoy our association with him.

In the Church News of September 12th, we were delighted to see the missionary couple that was with us in the MTC. They are serving in Serbia and were chosen as volunteers along with 8 Elder missionaries to help with the 25th University Olympics held in Belgrade. Elder and Sister Densley are from St. George and Elder Avery knew her in his childhood days. We have often wondered how the couple missionaries are doing in their missions and it was so 'cool' to see this .

We have new pictures of Cooper and what a handsome baby! It is really is quite hard on this grandma to not be in his life right now but look forward to when we can. Our fridge door is loaded with family pictures and I so enjoy seeing this wonderful family the Lord has blessed me with. The Lord truly has been good to me!

With love,
Los Averys