Temple Times

Temple Trip with Art

I never know how to start these things but usually it is something like "wow can't believe another week has gone by! Or this was an awesome week" but regardless here are some of the highlights of the week.

1) I played the organ for the YSA but they thought my last name was Lawrence

Elder Setoki in Summerwood fell asleep on the way back from the temple

2) We put another person on date this week! His name is Carl and he has been coming to church forever! He has been praying for the confidence to make a decision and he is going to get baptized on August 16th. For that week we should also have a baptism on August 19th for Jonothan Smith. 

Elder Latu, one of the AP’s

3) This week was our Recent Convert Richards birthday! He is coming to ball up with us today on Pday so I will be sure to take a picture with him. For his birthday the YSA had a bowling activity and we got to attend so that was super fun! 

The 7 up we just found and threw it as high as we can and it exploded so we took a picture for the memory

4) I went on exchanges with Elder Davies from Murray UT. I brought him up to our area and we had a really cool expereience with a member. We were in their home teaching them and asking them about their neighbors. I got a prompting to tell the memeber to go walk over with us and introduce us to their neighbor so he got on his shoes and walked us over. Right when we walked over he was just leaving to go back to work and we had a few minutes to talk with him and he invited us back! The member bore his testimony in sacrament meetin on the power that sharing the gospel had in his life and the joy in brought! He was having a really hard day with work before we showed up and those few  minutes helped him his whole week! So moral of the story is share the gospel with others because it will make your life better and give purpose to it!

5) For institute we have been learning about things in the old testement. We got to do a little passover and it was an awesome experience. He made us eat this super bitter stuff and I was dying but he gave us the unleavened bread and the grape juice which took it all away. It was such a powerful experience for me because everything that is wrong and bitter in life can be made right through the Savior and we have the chance to go and partake of the sacrament every week so take advantage of it and get the bitter out of your life!

6) We got to go the temple 2 times this week woooo! We also reactiviated and got a member the preisthood and he is going to get endowed this week and we might be able to attend that! The temple is the best! 

Love you all and have an awesome week! 

Mom’s Questions

How much time each week do you spend “contacting” people on the streets?  How do you decide where to go?  How do you start those conversations???  (it all sounds very intimidating to me)

It depends on the week. If we don't have any appointments or meetings or anything we are out and about just trying to talk to people. An easy way is to talk to people about their families and talk about how the gospel can bless it. It is also easy to ask if they have heard about the Book of Mormon or had the opportunity to read a verse from it and we can share a verse with them. 

Who did you go to the temple with this week?  (you mentioned last week you were going to go 2 times)?

 This week we went with the Summerwood Elders to go to our quarterly visit and we got to take our Recent Convert Art to the temple. 

When you go to the temple are you allowed to drive there or do you have to have a member take you?

 A member has to take us or we can't attend. 

How have you served your companion this week? 

 He was really tired one night and it was his turn to call but I just did all of the reporting and collecting numbers and things for him so he could get ready for bed and relax.