Stake Conference and Eagles

So there was Wichita Stake Conference this week. It was really good and super missionary minded. We had 5 investigators there. Two of them were boys under the age of 12 so we had to entertain them at stake conference in a reverent manner. It was a challenge to say the least but it went well. In our district there is another Elder Waldron. We found out that we're third cousins once removed. Levi Savage Waldron is my great-great grandpa and is his great-great-great grandpa. The first couple days we weren't sure we were related but then we found out that his grandpa is from Malad, Idaho and knew that we were cousins of some sort. His Grandpa's name is like Frederick Glen Waldron or something like that, I think he goes by Glen. Um there's this super cool member in our branch. She was raised in Honduras and joined the church there. She has like one of the best conversion stories I've ever heard. Anyway it's something I'm not at liberty to tell to lots of people but there is a cool part I want to share. There's a story, I'm sure a romantic Honduras fable, about an Eagle and a farmer. Here's the story I'm even going to use colons to set the fable apart from the rest of the email: There once was a mother eagle who had a single nestling. On a foul day she got caught in a storm never to return to her nestling. There was an old farmer who found this orphaned eagle chick. He could tell from the state of the nest and lack of food the eagle's mother was gone so he decided to take it to raise with his chicks back home. So that's what he did and eagle grew up with the chickens. When the farmer saw that the eagle was grown he took him back to the mountains. The eagle looked down on the farm and saw all his chicken friends. He wanted to be with them so he went back down to the farm. The farmer saw the eagle out with his chickens. He went and took the eagle and back to the mountains. He wrapped his arm around the eagle and whispered in his ear. "You're an eagle you were born to fly, now fly!" And he threw the eagle in the air. The eagle took flight and has been flying in the mountains since. I really like that story! We're all Eagles in some way!