We again had a wonderful trip to the temple. Part of that experience began with helping members find family names to take to the temple. Everyone who attended today had their own family name - there was a sister, grandmother, greatgrandmother, niece, and cousins. Sister Lisa Jackson hadn't been back to the temple since she got her own endowments about 5 years ago. We helped her get her grandmother's name ready for her to do the initiatory and endowment. When she came out of the initiatory, she was so overwhelmed that she was sobbing. She has been so appreciative of the opportunity and her goal is to get the rest of her family to the temple. We had so many stumbling blocks getting the baptisms done so they could have the rest of the work done, but the baptismal workers were so wonderful and helped us get it done. Bro. Weatherford came in just as they were to do the confirmations and they asked him if he would like to do them. What an emotional experience. He confirmed his sister-in-law first and the spirit was so strong that all who were in the room was affected.
We stayed for another session with the other Senior Missionaries in our mission. Afterwards we went to the mission home where we had dinner and a white elephant exchange. It was fun getting to meet and get to know the other senior missionaries.
Elder Lovell checking out his gift, an old phone that doesn't work
Sister Hadley with her do-it-yourself grapevine wreath. Actually, she was excited as she wanted one since I told her about them. I ended up making it before we left.
We left home about 6:00 a.m. and got home about 9:30 p.m. It was a very long day but so spiritually fulfilling!
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