Preach My Gospel

Twenty Seventh Week

Salt Lake Temple Square Mission
December 8, 2013

Our neighbors at the Savior of the World - Tom, Becky, Matt,
Sharon, Amy, Sister and Elder Frost

Dinner with friends at the Garden Restaurant with a view of the Temple

There are such wonderful events here on Temple Square at Christmas time and one of them is the production entitled “Savior of the World”. We went to this play weeks ago, but we were able to go again with our neighbors from Ogden. Several of them are non-members and so this was a wonderful experience for them. It was a time to strengthen them and for them to realize the importance of our Savior, Jesus Christ, His birth and resurrection. Our hope is that we can be examples to them and perhaps share our beliefs in some way, even via this beautiful musical.

Our Jenny in the South Visitor's Center with the Temple
in the background

We had an unexpected treat of having Jenny come for a visit this week. Even though she was staying with our daughter, April, we got to see her momentarily. We will miss our family Christmas celebration this year and of course our grandchildren, but we look forward to spending time with our mission family. There are many things to be done to prepare ourselves for the Christmas celebrations here. Perhaps January will bring a slow down for us, but right now we are so very busy.

Today was special because Taggart was able to ordain Cesar to the Aaronic Priesthood. It is incredible to us to see how far Cesar has come over the past few weeks. We had invited him to another activity on Temple Square but he couldn’t go because he was going to be doing missionary work and be with the Elders. Wonderful! He met Jenny while she was here and told her he was her long lost baby brother. We really do feel like he should be part of our family.

We are excited because Taggart met a man this week who wants to take the discussions. We had been praying to find another contact. Taggart met Jason on the Square and invited him to the organ recital. It was there that they talked and he was very interested in learning more about the Church because he works with so many people that are LDS. He is from China, working in Utah with a family in Canada. We have set up an appointment for next Saturday and we hope against hope that he will receptive to the spirit and the Doctrine of Christ.