Lunch with the Young Missionaries.
How can we sum up 18 months of service in our Mission serving from home? It isn't possible to capture in pictures most of what we did. We gave lots of service, attended many meetings and made many, many visits. I wish we could say that everything we did was super successful, but I know we made a difference in people's lives. I also know that we were blessed for our service. We spent hours studying, we got acquainted with lots of nice people, and we came to love them. We prayed and fasted and lost ourselves in the service of others. We experienced discouragement, frustration and great joy. Craig and I grew closer together and learned to work as a team more than ever. Some of our favorite things we did was serve with the open house for the Provo City Center Temple. We got to be among the some of the first people to walk through it. We gave some tours and we worked in the area where people assembled to watch a film before attending the temple. We were blessed to do a chapel tour almost every week of our mission. This was almost always a spiritual experience for us and the people we taught. We walked in the Fourth of July Parade. Even though it was a long hot walk, the cheering crowds engergized us and moved us along. We met and worked with many good young missionaries and fed them once a week for lunch. We were privileged to work with many good senior couples who taught us and inspired us with their great examples. |
SO many good memories!
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