Thirteenth Week of Our Mission

    Teaching Tressa (Our Investigator in Pocatello) from the Call Center 

The View from the "Roof" in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

The Flowers in Front of the Beehive House

Flowers in Front of Both Church Administration Buildings

 

 

Thirteenth Week of Our Mission

Salt Lake Temple Square Mission

September 1, 2013

Well, we have been on our mission almost three months on September 3^rd.  We are getting into the routine now, getting up early and working the Square until mid-afternoon most days.  We still find ourselves tired each day because greeting and talking to people takes some energy.  However, it is a good tired and we are grateful each day for this opportunity of serving in such a terrific mission.  Our love for the sisters grows stronger with each passing day.  The trouble is when we just get to know and love them it is time for them to go home.   Several sisters are leaving next week and already we have shed a few tears.

We had our first discussion with Tressa this week.  We really didn’t have a true discussion because she just asked some questions.  They were difficult ones to answer, but she was satisfied with what we said. We scheduled another appointment next week, a real discussion on the Restoration and Book of Mormon.  She seems very anxious to learn more and we hope and pray that the Spirit will be with us and Tressa as we proceed.  It was our first time together in the “Call Center” and we had some difficulty with the technology, however with practice I know that we will be successful.  This “Call Center” is wonderful and we plan to chat and talk with people who call and have questions especially during the winter months when Temple Square slows down.

We had the opportunity on Friday to go to the Bountiful Temple with a group of sisters.  President Gillette gave the opportunity to each sister to go to and see the new film that is being presented there.  We really felt the Spirit and the film was wonderful.  Many of the sisters mentioned that they truly understood the temple experience for the first time.  Taggart got to speak to them before the endowment session and said words of inspiration concerning the temple.  Afterwards I got to hug each sister as they entered the Celestial Room.  What an experience for all of us!

On Thursday of this week all of the senior couples (part time and full time) who serve on Temple Square got together for a meeting and a dinner.  These part time couples basically handle the “Hospitality Tours” during the week nights.  Because of their dedication and diligence a special dinner was planned at the Roof Restaurant in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.  We weren’t involved with the “Hospitality Tours” this year, yet we were able to enjoy this dinner too.  The view was magnificent and the food was terrific!  Because it is such an expensive restaurant, we were treated royally with special boxed mints and even a rose to take home. 

We are hoping against hope that Mimi will be baptized this next week.  We went to the Deseret Book Store and bought her a special picture of the Salt Lake Temple and sent it off as a baptismal gift.  We are wishing that this picture will be a reminder of the promise from Rick to be married in the temple a year from her baptismal date.  Next week we expect to have great news to share about Mimi and her baptism.

Just a final note, this last week we took many flower pictures.  The grounds on the Square are so magnificent that each day we are struck by their beauty.  Soon winter will be here and those flowers will be torn out and we will be so saddened.  Our walks around the grounds and the beauty we see make our hurting feet bearable. Therefore, we had to have a visual record for our memory book in the form of pictures.