Dear
Family,
Since it has been
longer than usual, I am not completely sure what happened this past week! Last
week we got some really good news from one of our investigators. She is finally
getting some of her health concerns taken care of and definitely wants to get
baptized before she has some medical procedures done! She has been meeting with the sisters for
about a year, so this was a very happy development. Earlier that same day we
had our meeting at the chapel next to the temple and they did indeed give us
all a tour. I was sitting in front of Sister Campbell, who is notorious for her
intense love of the temple. When President Sorensen announced at the very end
that we would get to go through the temple, I turned around to see her teary
eyed. Such a sweet moment to go into the house of the Lord with all these
wonderful sisters from the Nampa and Boise mission.
On Saturday we went
and did service at a nursing home with our district. We went to a living room type place with the
few residents and had blast with them. One lady used to be a singer, and they
say she sang at Carnegie Hall. She is deaf now, so we had to write what we
wanted to tell her on a doodle board. But she would practically yell when she
responded, in a sing song sort of way. She kept on asking us what makes us
happy and what we do to make other people happy. She encouraged us several
times to sing, and even got us up to dance. It was quite fun :)
We didn't have to
report to the temple until 4 on Monday, so we also served a lady we met
about 2 weeks ago. She is older and has some memory problems. I think she is rather lonely and enjoys us
coming. She goes to a different church very regularly, but it still kind enough
to let us come help her. After that we were able to stop in and say hello to
another couple. We had a wonderful visit with them. The husband was in Okinawa in the 50s and the
70s, so we had a fun time talking about that. Then it was off to the temple! We
got there and they had our dinner scheduled first, so we had sack lunches at
our little area on the stage. A different stake is taking care of our meals
every day. The rest of the night we spent in the chapel showing the video that
the people watch before going to the temple. Right now they are just letting a
few people go through, and there just aren't very many. It was a little slow at
times so I started reading the New Testament and memorizing the Living Christ,
while Sister Blocker was busy drawing. She is quite gifted. Towards the end of
the night, around 8, I asked if we could join in the last tour. They ended up
just giving all the sisters in the chapel a tour of our own, which was very
nice of them.
Yesterday, we were
at the chapel by the temple at 11 for lunch. We were in a video room for 3
hours. A few members and their families from our assigned congregations came,
so it was fun to meet them and their friends. Then we got to go to the
reception tent for a couple of hours before dinner. That is where everyone
comes out of the tour, and I enjoyed being there and talking to people. I asked
three different kids what their favorite thing about the temple was and they
all said the stairs. I also talked to this other 11 year old girl who was with
her grandparents and cousins. She told me that her parents won't let her be
baptized until she is 18, but that she really wants to be. I was happy for her
to have such a wonderful experience at the temple that will strengthen her
resolve to choose the right. After dinner, we spent the rest of the night in a
video room. This time they just let us jump in on the last tour, which we were grateful
for. I think I will just go through the temple as many times as I possibly can.
It is such a sacred and beautiful building, I know that it is the house of the
Lord.
Love,
Sister Jensen
 |
This is us at the temple Monday night, our battery died and they couldn't even jump it :( Thankfully some sisters that live close to us have a van so they took us all home, and the car was fixed the next day.
No comments:
Post a Comment