Utah Salt Lake City Temple Square Mission

September 21, 2014

Our Sisters!!!

It was the final week for the Curtis’ so on Tuesday we said goodbye to them and the five sisters going home.  The Bradshaw’s have stepped up and are doing a great job with their new assignments.  We will enjoy working with them for the next month.  Also on Wednesday sixteen new sisters entered the mission including those from South Africa, India and Pakistan….quite the mix of countries.

It is a wonderful surprise for us to be teaching Tressa again.  She is anxious to be baptized and asked Taggart to baptize her.  I think I mentioned earlier that we had hopes that she would be baptized before we left the mission and hooray it is going to happen.  Both she and Ron (her new husband) are engaged in the repentance process and are committed to going to church and living the commandments.  We begin teaching her again next week and look forward to it tremendously.  As for Diane, we have very little time left to have discussions with her.  As I always mention, she believes but questions everything.  If she can’t have faith in certain principles then she will be questioning forever.

As usual we have had many hospitality tours where we have had a few twelve hour days.  The hours are numbered for these tours though and we will miss visiting with the people who come from around the globe.   However, we will not miss the long hours and sore feet.

Today we had the special opportunity to go via satellite to the Ogden Temple dedication.  All the sisters were able to attend one of the three sessions in the Conference Center Little Theatre.  President Monson presided in our session along with President Eyring.  It was a very spiritual meeting and it brought excitement to us about this new temple…..our temple!  We are committed to going at least twice a month and doing work for our own ancestors.  President and Sister Poulsen gave us some special handkerchiefs that had the Ogden Temple appliqued on it.  We were grateful for that gift and those handkerchiefs will hold a very special memory for us.

The sisters have been so kind to us.  As we approach the end of our mission, we are getting a lot more hugs and pleads to not go home.  We will miss them so much and the interactions and special miracles they share with us on a daily basis.  This is probably the thing we will miss the most our beautiful and inspirational sister missionaries.