Month: September 2018

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Temples!

Hey everybody!

So, we went to the temple again to help out with the videos and the reception for the open house and it really is amazing to see how the temple affects the people. Pretty much everybody comes out with a look of awe on their face. In the mission we’ve received 211 referrals from the temple that are currently being contacted by the missionaries. We never receive that many referrals so it’s pretty amazing and they’re really good because they actually want to learn more after the amazing experience they had. I really have missed the opportunity to enter the temple. I haven’t been able to go through since I left home for the MTC. So, it’s been almost 17 months. It really is a grand privilege that we have in Utah. Everybody always told me that and I never really understood until I was kept so far away from the temple for so long. When I get home I have the goal to go at least once a week. I love you guys a lot! Keep loving your neighbors and sharing your knowledge of the gospel with them when you get the opportunity, and please take advantage of the fact that you have so many temples so close.
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Open House!

So, Monday and Tuesday we worked in the temple open house showing the video at the beginning of the tour and answering questions and asking people to fill out comment cards in the reception tent. It was pretty amazing to get to see how the spirit being so strong inside the temple can touch people’s hearts and change so much for them. It’s also been interesting to see a few people who are so set in their ways and ideas that even after they’ve gone through such a great experience they don’t seem to have learned anything. I think that it comes with the mindset with which they enter. I can think of a few times that I entered the temple before my mission with the wrong kind of mindset and honestly I didn’t really feel the spirit as far as I can tell. I think it’s because I was closed off to it and couldn’t feel, but little by little I’ve been learning how to soften my own heart so that I can learn and grow by listening to the spirit.

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Baptism Investigator

To be honest not much happened this week. We tried really hard to have appointments with every single person that has interest in the message and we were motivated to teach with the spirit and everything so that the people with interest could progress, but for some reason everybody had stuff come up and by the end of the week I think we ended up having less than 5 lessons and 1 or 2 were getting to know the members better. So, we didn’t get super far there.

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Temple in ConcepciĆ³n!

This week we found some new people with interest in the message, but due to my cold (I’ve now got 13 days) it’s been a little difficult to have a lot of appointments because people don’t want to get sick and I don’t want to get them sick. It seems like I might be getting a little better though, so we should be good. šŸ™‚ I’m excited as well as nervous for the puertas abiertas. It should be amazing, but it’s gonna be a lot of talking to people. Honestly I think it’ll end up being more than normal because I won’t have time for studies every day, and that’s gonna be a challenge for me, but it should be good. Hermana Judkins and I will be working the reception tent and the introduction tent with the videos during the 17th and the 18th as well as the 22nd through the 25th. So yesterday they gave us a tour of the temple and explained to us what we would be doing. Pretty much all of the Hermanas cried as we went through the sealing room. It was pretty trunky. :S The whole mission is getting pretty excited about this and it looks like all of the members and non members are as well. We should be getting a lot of good references as people go through and learn about the temple in the tours. I feel very blessed to get to be one of the missionaries in Concepcion sur at this time because the work is progressing a lot here in this mission. I’ve gotten to learn so much here on the mission, and one of the biggest things that I think I’ve learned is the importance of family and I know that families can be eternal. I also know that no family is perfect. We’ve all got lots to learn together.