Temple Blessings

The Oquirrh Mountain Temple

Today was a beautiful day. My post for this day is more like the ones I posted when we were serving in Germany. I enjoyed showing the beauties of the area and the temple experiences we had. Today is much like that.

Our Mountains are Beautiful here in this Mission

In our work we visit and teach a number of people and families. The influence we have, really is the influence of the Holy Ghost as people open up to the opportunities we bring as set-apart missionaries, representatives of Jesus Christ in  inviting others to come to Christ. Our mission is not as much directed to convert baptisms. That is the focus of the younger missionaries. We do work together with them in many cases and our involvement with the many people of the stake often overlap.

Today we were blessed to be in the temple with a wonderful family. We have been visiting them for about a year and today they were sealed as a family for all eternity in the temple of the Lord.

The ceremony was wonderful and the children did well. Many tears of joy were shed.

We thank the Lord for the blessings of the temple and for the experiences we are having in His work.

Family

Life is always interesting. We find our selves quite busy with our mission activities. In our weekly reports we are asked to report on the number of lessons given, people who are attending sacrament meeting (of our focus group of people - currently about 53 households), along with reports of people receiving ordinances (baptism, priesthood, temple, etc.), and people transferred to the younger missionaries. This does not include the many other times of service, mostly helping people get to doctors, shopping, etc. But through it all, we try to get family time.

We have had a practice of holding a family party on a Sunday evening, once a month. Because of people moving, and many other conflicts, our get-togethers are sometimes large and sometimes small, but we enjoy those wonderful times together, especially when we are so busy.

I just wanted to give that kind of a little report here on the blog, along with a picture of yesterday's gathering.



As you can tell, this is not a posed picture. I love taking pictures of people when they are not expecting it.

We are doing well. We love our family and are truly blessed of the Lord.