Utah Salt Lake City Mission - President and Sister Condie

 In honor of Thanksgiving ... These are some of the things for which I am most grateful: My family; A loving Heavenly Father; A merciful and compassionate Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ; The restoration of the church, gospel and priesthood of Jesus Christ on the earth once more; The Book of Mormon; Modern-day prophets and apostles; Covenants that bind us to God; The blessing of serving as a mission president with over 190 wonderful young and senior missionaries; Personal revelation; So many supportive friends; and Health. It was a busy two weeks with transfers taking center stage. We gained 16 new missionaries and lost 18 (12 finishing their missions, 4 receiving their visas and transferring to their permanent assignments elsewhere in the world, 1 going home early for health reasons, and 1 going home temporarily to work through something before returning to the field). It is such a blessing to work with and serve such exceptional young men and women! Thanksgiving dinner was had ...

  We enjoyed a couple weeks full of conferences. It started with stake conference in Green River, Wyoming November 5th and 6th. They kept us busy. We were asked to speak in the Leadership meeting on Saturday afternoon, the youth devotional Sunday morning and the general session also Sunday morning.  Just a couple days later, we started our first mission tour with Elder Hugo E. Martinez and his wife on Tuesday, November 8th. Elder Martinez is a General Authority Seventy and member of the Utah Area Presidency. Elder and Sister Martinez were so gracious, helpful, inspiring. We started our tour with a Zone Conference up in Evanston, Wyoming for our newly created Summit/Wyoming Zone. Following the conference, we were able to enjoy dinner with the Martinezes back in Salt Lake City. That was followed by Zone Conferences in Salt Lake City over the next two days and finished with a Missionary Leadership Council meeting that Friday to conclude the mission tour. The next day, Saturday, N...