So this week was a little different that usual! Our proselyting time got cut short because we had two huge meetings this week, plus Friday we went to the temple! One of the meetings we had was Saturday, Ward Conference, and on Sunday we had a Ward Missionary "MTC." I'm not sure how big the ward missionaries are in other missions or wards, but our stake is really pushing missionary work through Ward Missionaries here. Earlier this week they got their official "calling" and all have little name tags like the real missionaries do. We trained them on teaching lessons in the MTC night, so that was fun. The Ward Missionaries are the ward members who usually come out with us and add to the lesson by bearing testimony, or teaching a principle. It’s good because a couple of the members that come out with us are future missionaries, so they get to watch how we teach and practice and all that.
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| Super Cute Couple we are teaching!!! |
On Friday, the Missionaries were at the temple for the first time in a while! With the other mission president, I don't think Missionaries ever went to the temple, except for their last week in the mission, with the President. The rule for Friday was if we wanted to go to the temple, we had to bring recent converts and help them get the names of their family to do. We originally thought we wouldn't get to go, because the only recent converts in our area are a couple with 2 little kids. Thursday night they told us they worked out their schedules so that they could go, so we had to scramble Friday to help them with their names and figure out rides and everything. That day we had to cancel all of our appointments to be able to get everything done, that was kinda sad, but going to the temple was super fun!
We got there at 6pm and the missionaries had to wait until it slowed down to be able to go through, because the temple isn't very big...we ended up waiting outside until 9pm! That's technically when the temple closes, but they stayed open another 2 hours to let the missionaries do baptisms too. That day in the temple was CRAZY. I've never seen them go through baptisms so fast. Since there weren't enough rooms to do confirmations, the had to do a bunch in the hallways and wherever they could find room. With clothing too, they barely had enough...like they were handing it out as they came out of the dryer. Crazy, crazy day for everyone at the temple.
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| Hermanas at the Temple! |
Other random things from this week that I wanted to share: The tooth fairy here is a mouse. Haha like the Easter bunny, but the tooth mouse. Another thing. We were talking about jobs the other day and all the little jobs in the USA, that would be a regular minimum wage job, like working at the movie theater, or burger king, those kind of jobs here only pay like a dollar or less an hour! I knew people made less money here, but when you think of it like that, dang! Another random thing is that I saw fireflies for the first time. Maybe they exist in Utah and I’ve just never seen them or knew what they were, but my companion pointed some out the other night and I thought that was kinda cool! I couldn't take a picture because they flash super fast and are really tiny, otherwise I would have!
Well, that's all I have time for this week! Hope everyone has an awesome week this week, Love you all :)
Hermana Harper
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