Hey family,

Yeah conference was pretty amazing!  On my first tuesday devotional, Elder Bednar came and talked to us.  He taught us to really pay attention to the words of prophets and also the scriptures.  He said, that we must 1.Identify the doctrine being taught 2. Identify the invitation to us that we must do 3. Recognize the promised blessings after we carry out this invitation.  It was pretty awesome.  Also, an ex-NFL football player for the Eagles, Chad Lewis came and told us about his football and mission experience.  He made me want to work even harder.  Every talk here makes me want to work harder and harder.  My district is awesome.  We get distracted some times and mess around, but I am going to change that.  In the picture we are all pointing to Cabo Verde, that is my district.  The pictures where its me and another guy is my companion Elder Heagney from Australia.  The Book of Mormon is amazing.  After that Im going to read the new Testament.  Its nice to hear from you.  You can write me at dearelder.com  whenever you want throughout the week and it arrives the same day.  Tell Trevor, Jessica, and Daniel to write me on dearelder.com because its much easier for me because I can only read emails once a week, but I can read dearelder every day.  You should also post something on the blog about that!

I love you!

Elder Rice