Utah Salt Lake City Temple Square Mission

September 14, 2014

Our Gathering in the Jade Room

We didn’t have a complete P-Day this week because we had a lovely dinner in the Jade Room at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Monday evening.  This was a dinner to honor the part time couples who worked with the hospitality tours this year.  It was a delicious meal and a very spiritual evening.  Everyone who attended the event shared miracles that had happened to them while on Temple Square during the year.  This is truly a place of miracles and we personally have experienced many.

This was the week in which we had many hospitality tours.  We had thirteen on Thursday night and called in everyone who could possibly help.  It was wild and crazy on that day and we had some interesting experiences and some that were hilarious.  One of our part time couples was assigned a group to take to the Lion House in a special room to eat.  Well, to make a long story short he picked up the wrong group and seated them in the Lion House.  They were thrilled and began to eat their salads.  In the meantime Taggart found the right group wandering around waiting for their host.  Taggart took them to the Lion House and met up with this other group.  The right group was a bit angry when they saw their food being eaten, but the wrong group just laughed it off.  The Lion House personnel quickly exchanged salads and silverware and the right group was seated.

After such a positive experience with Diane last week, we were a bit disappointed by our call to her this week.  Sometimes we feel she will be baptized and then she has more doubts and more questions and we are back to square one.  Taggart admitted to her that all of our questions may never be answered probably in this life but we have to live by faith.  But she is so logical that it is hard for her to acquire faith that is so necessary for her to move forward.

Frost/Curtis Senior Couples on the Square

At “Music and the Spoken Word” we said goodbye to five sisters and the Curtis’.  It has been very difficult for me to say goodbye to the Curtis’ because we have grown so close.  They are such a loving and giving couple and worked so hard to improve the mission.  We will miss them tremendously but are grateful that we could spend the majority of our mission with them.  Hopefully, we will be able to see them again.