So I'm sure a lot of you have already heard, but President Nelson announced a week or so ago that all Sister missionaries serving around the world are approved to wear dress slacks instead of skirts/dresses if they so desire! Sooooo guess who's wearing pants right now!?! Me!!!!! It's kind of weird walking around and teaching people not in a dress, but it's probably just because I'm so used to it. I'm definitely enjoying the pants and I'm super grateful we get to wear them.
1. We helped a lady's dream come true this week! We met a lady walking around Temple Square who ever since she joined the church about 10 years ago has dreamed of touching the Salt Lake Temple. She has been to Temple Square once before this week, but the temple was closed for cleaning so she couldn't go through to touch it. When she stopped us to ask about the Assembly Hall and then told us about how she was coming here early the next morning to touch the temple when the gates would be open, Sister Honeycutt and I had to break the bad news to her that again the temple was being cleaned and that the gates would not reopen for another month. When we told her, she quietly began to cry and then turned to leave. We were so sad for her, but there was nothing we could do.. until we remembered that we had just walked by one of our favorite security guards and thought that maybe he could do us a solid... so we told her to wait, and we ran to go find security. After a little begging, security agreed to open the gate so this lady could go and touch the temple before going home. We told her, and she literally wept the entire way through the gate and across the grounds to the wall of the temple. It was the sweetest thing I think I've ever witnessed and she gave Sister Honeycutt and I the tightest hug afterwards. It was really sweet to get to help her dream come true <3
2. We have found a lot of new people to teach this week! Most of them live in Central and South America - they are such a prepared people for the gospel! I am so grateful for the gift the Lord gave me of speaking Spanish and for being able to communicate with these people and help bring the blessings of the gospel to their lives. I love sharing about Jesus Christ with them and learning about their different life stories and hearing about their faith, and then getting to help build it. That's something I love about the Spanish speaking people that we teach - so many of them are so open to the gospel and so open about their lives - it's amazing how quickly they trust us. They are such a prepared people.
That's about it! We had to say goodbye to the Beehive House this week - the Church History Department has officially taken over and we no longer give tours there! So sad!! I'm grateful for the time I had to serve there - I certainly knew that I would gain a testimony of Joseph Smith as a prophet of God while I was here, but I didn't anticipate how strong of a testimony I would develop about Brigham Young being a prophet too. I love that Jesus Christ continues to call prophets to lead and guide us today - and now we have Russell M. Nelson - and what an amazing prophet he is.
I hope you all have an amazing week!
--Sister Black
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