Orchids and QC Zone Conf

 As I mentioned before, I am now growing some orchids.  I am so excited over how well they are doing.  I have 2 plants and I think the blossoms are just beautiful.  Every day when I go to the office, I check them out to see how they're doing.

                                                   The color is just magnificent in person.

 Monday after working for several hours at the office, we drove to Quebec City for zone conference on Tuesday.  The drive takes about 3 hours.  We were going to go and do some sight seeing, but it was so cold and the wind chill factor was so high that we just relaxed in the hotel room, watched some TV and read.  The next morning at conference, we did some training and then we had to go and do the car checks.  It was freezing and the wind was blowing so hard.  It was so cold that the ink in my pens froze and I couldn't write.  I had to go and borrow a pencil from one of the missionaries to fill out the paper work.  We had to come into the church 2 times to warm up before we finished those cars.  We checked about 8 cars and 4 trucks.  I could barely get into those huge trucks and then I practically had to lie down to push on the brake pedal so that John could check the brake lights.  We worked really hard and I was so tired by the time we got done.

 We did have a nice lunch waiting for us and the young missionaries.  I always love the spend time with them.  They are so nice and friendly and just fun to be with.  The missionary on the phone is Elder Pihatarioe.  He is from Tahiti.  He is a big guy and so nice.  We have quite a few missionaries from Tahiti.  I think we have about 6 Elders and 2 Sisters.

 Elder Teuira is also from Tahiti.   I don't have favorite missionaries, but if I did, he would definitely be one of them.  He is a lot of fun.

                         There are only 3 Sisters in this zone.  They are so cute and also so nice.