Hello and happy Halloween!
So...the big news is......Sister Beckstrand and I are staying in Everson! Yay!...but! That's not all! We're going down to Mill Creek tomorrow to pick up another sister.....my first tri-ship since Sister Donaldson and Sister Swensen in the MTC. So exciting! I think we've narrowed it down to two or three sisters that it might be.
So...naturally, the other exciting news is KATIE IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!!!!!!! Her baptismal program is shaping up to be quite wonderful. Then on the 15th she is off to Provo to attend UVU in January. She's super excited.
(Speaking of January, have I told you that Sister Beckstrand and I share Jan. 9th as our birthday? Maybe we'll be able to be together for our birthday as well........ :D And we just had a new lady move into the ward that was ALSO born on Jan. 9th. Her first Sunday there, and she even signed up to feed us already. She's so sweet: Sister Williams, from the Philippines.)
Yesterday, we had a FANTASTIC sacrament meeting, a GREAT gospel principles class (all about temple work, we were sure to tell Katie about the walk-in policy in the Provo temple :D ), and a WONDERFUL, STUPENDOUS, MARVELOUS 5th Sunday lesson from Brother Packard (wml). It was a really powerful, spiritual lesson. He talked mostly about how we can overcome fear as missionaries, and how we can do missionary work by doing service. He mostly used three talks: "Have I Done Any Good for Someone Today" by President Monson, "Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear" by President Eyring, and "Finding Joy Through Loving Service" by Elder Ballard. I really like all of those talks; he read my favorite part of Elder Ballard's talk, about how Preach My Gospel has really changed how we as full-time missionaries do missionary work and how it's different from the days of tracting twenty-four-seven.....and it's OKAY and GOOD and PROGRESSIVE (i.e. progression is an eternal principle, and applies to missionary work as well...) that it's changed with the times =)
Katie really enjoyed Church...then we took her to our stake cottage meeting, and she loved that as well. She gave us a ride, and we all had a really great time riding there together. She said she couldn't stop smiling, she's so excited for her own baptism. It's going to be great for her, great for us, great for the ward.....just great, great, great!!!
So...the exciting news just keeps coming.........so we found out about two transfers ago that we're having a special stake conference on November 13th with a general authority. Last Monday, at sister's luncheon, President told us we're having another mission conference with a general authority on November 12th.
We asked him who it was...to which he promptly responded: "I know who it is and I can't tell you neener neener neener" like a little five year old. Haha. President Wilson is SOOOOO funny!
He did give us a hint though: "Well...it could be one of twelve people......"
That's TWO apostles in the same year.........it'll be FOUR general authority visits this year for our mission total....the usual is just about 1 or 2!!! We're so blessed in this mission....we must need all this extra help for some reason. We're definitely getting the focus of the Brethren with so many visits, and the mormon.org campaign going on here too....it's really a great time to be a missionary in this area!
Anyways, I'm glad you enjoyed my mormon.org profile. I'm glad you shared it with people as well. You can make a profile in any area...it doesn't have to be exclusive to areas where the campaign is going on.....(*obedient missionary plug.....)
It's quite sad to hear that we lost to TCU.....I had high hopes for that game. My district leader (also a BYU fan) is leaving our district (he's been called as a zone leader)...so I may be left alone again...at least I have Brother Packard. We heard that we lost...but that was all we heard about this week....
I'm glad the trunk-or-treat turned out well. We participated in ours. I dressed up as Sister Beckstrand and she dressed up as Sister Holdsworth....then we decorated our car as the "Missionary Treat Center" (haha...get it?) and we made a few little Halloween characters and stuck little missionary name tags on them....it was pretty darn cute. (Pictures will be on their way I'm sure...) We had a HUGE turn out to it...172 people or something like that........tons of inactive members came--some people that I hadn't even met yet!
I hope mom's new calling goes well. We've been doing a little bit of studying about the Millennium as well....not too in depth, but it's very interesting. Usually, I'm focused on studying the Book of Mormon. I may have told you: I finished my "missinoary work" theme for reading the Book of Mormon, so now I've started over, highlighting each of the Christlike attributes (Ch 4, PMG) in a different color. It's been very insightful so far. I've also started reading Jesus the Christ, and conference inspired me to begin studying the Old Testament. It's quite enjoyable. Sister Beckstrand and I usually end up using our whole companionship study hour telling each other what we learned...we love our studies!!!
Anyways....I think that's all the big news....I just sent off my talk on charity from a few weeks ago...I hope you enjoy that as well...
Love you all!
Sister Heather Holdsworth
Monday, October 31, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
October 26, 2011
hello....sorry it's taken so long to write. You were right: we weren't able to email on Monday because of the luncheon (or "Sisters Training" as President decided to rename it...I guess the Elders are getting too jealous ;) ) It takes two hours to drive down to Mill Creek, so we had to leave at 9am...and then we didn't leave until 4pm...p-day is only from 10am until 6pm, so....no time to e-mail. Then, yesterday morning (around 3am) Sister Beckstrand woke up with the flu, so that meant mormon.org time didn't happen until...well...now. (She's feeling much better...we went to the doctor's for my excema break out (he knew exactly what to give me! It's already clearing up! Dermatologists are quacks...Dr. Moore knows what's going on!!) and so he gave her some medicine also, and then the Elders came to give her a blessing last night...)
So....anyways...that's probably all really jumbled...but yes...sorry it's taken so long!
But speaking of mormon.org...my profile is finally up! http://mormon.org/me/5YRW/ woo! so exciting...A few of the Elders in our district have been having some success through the media campaign. We've had one less active family ask us about it, but other than that, no bites in Everson yet...
So...yes...I can't take too much time...but I did want to say good job with your missionary experience two weeks ago! I forgot to mention that in my last email until I hit "send" and was kicked off the computer...
Also, thanks for all the updates about football and the band. It sounds like Mr. A is getting things together more. That's good.
Anyways...I love you!! Sorry this email is so sparse :( I guess that's just what happens sometimes when you're up North in the boonies like we are...
Love you,
Sister Heather Holdsworth
So....anyways...that's probably all really jumbled...but yes...sorry it's taken so long!
But speaking of mormon.org...my profile is finally up! http://mormon.org/me/5YRW/ woo! so exciting...A few of the Elders in our district have been having some success through the media campaign. We've had one less active family ask us about it, but other than that, no bites in Everson yet...
So...yes...I can't take too much time...but I did want to say good job with your missionary experience two weeks ago! I forgot to mention that in my last email until I hit "send" and was kicked off the computer...
Also, thanks for all the updates about football and the band. It sounds like Mr. A is getting things together more. That's good.
Anyways...I love you!! Sorry this email is so sparse :( I guess that's just what happens sometimes when you're up North in the boonies like we are...
Love you,
Sister Heather Holdsworth
Monday, October 17, 2011
October 17, 2011
Hello! Sounds like you had a good week.
I got a letter from Jolie this past week; enjoyed hearing from her. =) Today is district p-day (we're going to go out to lunch and then to peace arch park up in Blaine) so I probably won't have time to write too many letters today, but I'll try to get one in the mail soon. My companions all say that I respond to letters faster than most missionaries........so that must be a good thing right?
This past week was exciting, last p-day we went on an epic adventure looking for new windshield wiper blades...we finally found some, after several stops and many miles spent...Apparently we have some very unique wiper blades.....?
Then we had a joint lesson with Katie and the Elders over the YSA ward up here (our zone leaders). She's been thinking she might want to check it out before moving to Utah to get used to what she might expect when she gets to Provo....but she wanted to go to our ward to listen to Sister Packard and myself speak (yes...again! this time my talk was on charity. Sister Beckstrand will be speaking next week on honesty.)....but then she was sick so she didn't go to EITHER ward...so...........we've decided to just put where she gets baptized in the bishops' hands. They can have a duel over who gets the number, so to speak. haha.
It'll all work out, that's all Sister Beckstrand and I know!
We had an amazing lesson with Chris on Wednesday. We read The Family: A Proclamation to the World with her paragraph by paragraph. We talked a lot about temple sealings, and she's really excited to learn more and prepare for the temple after she is baptized. We talked to her about how she and Joe will need to be married before she can be baptized (Joe has been on a hunting trip with his brother and nephews this week)...........we asked her if November 12th would be a good day to plan for her baptism! She freaked out at first that that wouldn't be enough time to get married, too (!) but then we talked about how she and Joe could marry privately first, she could be baptized, and then they could have a bigger, vow renewal/celebration/etc. later in the spring when they had originally planned....and she really liked that idea!!!! She said they would talk when Joe gets back (so we've been praying, literally! that they get a deer sooner rather than later so that Joe can get home sooner....hahaha!!).
Then, yesterday at church, she said she'd told Joe about our lesson and he said "Sounds great, we'll talk when I get home." She was expecting a "WOOOOOAH!!!" haha! So great! We've been fasting for them and that the Spirit will help them in their decision process for the past two fast Sundays....It's such a blessing to see our prayers being answered!
Gospel principles yesterday was on eternal marriage (talk about perfect, right?), and then between GP and Relief Society Chris and I were talking about temples more, and I mentioned temple work for the dead, and how we'd talk with her more about that later (as the lesson was starting...)...and what do you know...the Relief Society lesson was all about temple work and genealogy. Isn't Heavenly Father just perfect?? haha Chris loved it. We loved it. Church was just fantastic yesterday!!
Anyways...so backup to Wednesday again....Sister Beckstrand got to do the best. mission. service. EVER!! Joe found two litters of abandoned kittens over the past week (9 kittens total....all about 2 weeks old) and so we got to help Chris bottle feed them all before our lesson. It was the most adorable thing EVER! Sister Beckstrand and I both wanted to keep one...but alas, the missionary handbook................haha, we're hoping we get to feed them again next Wednesday. We're also looking forward to bragging about our Best Service Ever at the sisters' luncheon next Monday with all the sister missionaries at the mission home. Should be fun. =)
(We're getting two more sisters next transfer, November 1st! That'll make us 19 in the mission, since one of the sisters is going home then, too.)
Anyways....I think that's all the updates from me. Thank you for telling me the scores for the San Jose St. game and the Oregon St. game. Glad that they seem to be doing better with Riley at the helm. Hope the Idaho St. game goes well this Saturday!!!!!
Love you all,
Sister Heather Holdsworth
I got a letter from Jolie this past week; enjoyed hearing from her. =) Today is district p-day (we're going to go out to lunch and then to peace arch park up in Blaine) so I probably won't have time to write too many letters today, but I'll try to get one in the mail soon. My companions all say that I respond to letters faster than most missionaries........so that must be a good thing right?
This past week was exciting, last p-day we went on an epic adventure looking for new windshield wiper blades...we finally found some, after several stops and many miles spent...Apparently we have some very unique wiper blades.....?
Then we had a joint lesson with Katie and the Elders over the YSA ward up here (our zone leaders). She's been thinking she might want to check it out before moving to Utah to get used to what she might expect when she gets to Provo....but she wanted to go to our ward to listen to Sister Packard and myself speak (yes...again! this time my talk was on charity. Sister Beckstrand will be speaking next week on honesty.)....but then she was sick so she didn't go to EITHER ward...so...........we've decided to just put where she gets baptized in the bishops' hands. They can have a duel over who gets the number, so to speak. haha.
It'll all work out, that's all Sister Beckstrand and I know!
We had an amazing lesson with Chris on Wednesday. We read The Family: A Proclamation to the World with her paragraph by paragraph. We talked a lot about temple sealings, and she's really excited to learn more and prepare for the temple after she is baptized. We talked to her about how she and Joe will need to be married before she can be baptized (Joe has been on a hunting trip with his brother and nephews this week)...........we asked her if November 12th would be a good day to plan for her baptism! She freaked out at first that that wouldn't be enough time to get married, too (!) but then we talked about how she and Joe could marry privately first, she could be baptized, and then they could have a bigger, vow renewal/celebration/etc. later in the spring when they had originally planned....and she really liked that idea!!!! She said they would talk when Joe gets back (so we've been praying, literally! that they get a deer sooner rather than later so that Joe can get home sooner....hahaha!!).
Then, yesterday at church, she said she'd told Joe about our lesson and he said "Sounds great, we'll talk when I get home." She was expecting a "WOOOOOAH!!!" haha! So great! We've been fasting for them and that the Spirit will help them in their decision process for the past two fast Sundays....It's such a blessing to see our prayers being answered!
Gospel principles yesterday was on eternal marriage (talk about perfect, right?), and then between GP and Relief Society Chris and I were talking about temples more, and I mentioned temple work for the dead, and how we'd talk with her more about that later (as the lesson was starting...)...and what do you know...the Relief Society lesson was all about temple work and genealogy. Isn't Heavenly Father just perfect?? haha Chris loved it. We loved it. Church was just fantastic yesterday!!
Anyways...so backup to Wednesday again....Sister Beckstrand got to do the best. mission. service. EVER!! Joe found two litters of abandoned kittens over the past week (9 kittens total....all about 2 weeks old) and so we got to help Chris bottle feed them all before our lesson. It was the most adorable thing EVER! Sister Beckstrand and I both wanted to keep one...but alas, the missionary handbook................haha, we're hoping we get to feed them again next Wednesday. We're also looking forward to bragging about our Best Service Ever at the sisters' luncheon next Monday with all the sister missionaries at the mission home. Should be fun. =)
(We're getting two more sisters next transfer, November 1st! That'll make us 19 in the mission, since one of the sisters is going home then, too.)
Anyways....I think that's all the updates from me. Thank you for telling me the scores for the San Jose St. game and the Oregon St. game. Glad that they seem to be doing better with Riley at the helm. Hope the Idaho St. game goes well this Saturday!!!!!
Love you all,
Sister Heather Holdsworth
Monday, October 10, 2011
October 10, 2011
Hello Everyone!
So....exciting news from the week.................................
KATIE IS ON DATE FOR BAPTISM ON OCTOBER 30TH!!!
This will be the first baptism in Everson since February!!!
We were planning on passing her on to the YSA Elders...but we just found out that she's moving to Utah to go to UVU early November...(we knew she was going to be moving, but we didn't realize it was that soon)...and so now we have to worry if we transition her tomorrow, is that enough time for the YSA ward to fellowship her and make it a positive experience for her. She already knows everyone in our ward....she's really close with the Packards (wml and yw president) and will probably want Brother Packard to baptize her anyways.......So now we're worried about transitioning her. It's hard...because Sister Beckstrand and I have both served in Arlington in the YSA branch there, so we know what it's like to have other missionaries "poach" on the ysa investigators....but the Elders have been aware of us teaching her the whole time...they know that we HAVEN'T transitioned her yet because she wasn't really interested in it...........urgh. It's a little frustrating...but she IS on date, and she's really excited. WE'RE really excited. It doesn't really matter where she's baptized....just that she has a good fellowshipping experience. Our district leader said he'd talk with the zone leaders (the Elders over the ysa ward) for us and explain the situation to them. He thinks it would be best if we keep her in Everson ward...who knows what'll happen though.
Anyways...yes....we had a great lesson with her yesterday at the Packards all about the doctrine of Christ. She's doing so great. She loves the Church.
Anyways...other news....
Chris is doing really well. She also wants to be baptized (she and her member boyfriend she's living with need to get married still....). We also finally picked up her son, Derrick, as an investigator. He's YSA age, also. We gave him the information for the YSA ward right away. We don't know if he went yesterday...but he wasn't at our ward, and he said he's been loving Church when he's been coming with his mom, so hopefully! =)
So...once upon a time there was a rumor in the mission that we were getting white-washed and Elders were being put into the Everson Ward. That did not happen at the time....
Recently, Sister Beckstrand came into Everson Ward.
Sister Beckstrand shares my same passion for well-organized area books (our records of investigators, members, etc.).When she was transferred up here, the Everson Ward area book was a little above the travesty it was when I came into Everson Ward.
Sister Beckstrand and I have felt very frantic and passionate about the need for us to update and beautify the area book.We have spent a lot of our proselytizing time doing this. We don't feel guilty. It is something very essential to the success of our area.
This week, (as we are still far from done with the area book) we noticed how obsessed we've become with the area book, and we have come to wonder why this is.
Also recently, Bishop has become very concerned for the split-language families we have in our ward (one spouse speaks Spanish and one English, and so the Spanish speaker does not attend the Spanish group to keep their family together for Church, but then is left out a bit during Church because they don't speak English...).
He has decided to call and assistant ward mission leader over the Spanish-speakers within the ward. He will be teaching a Spanish Gospel Principles class.
Bishop, Brother Packard, and this awml are all very inspired in their callings......and they seem to have been inspired that this should become a "big deal" and we should encourage people to discuss this with their non-member friends.
Sister Beckstrand and I are very concerned that this sounds ridiculous because any Spanish speaking non-members must be transitioned to the Spanish Elders and the Spanish group. We are very concerned that this sounds like the Everson Ward is trying to start it's own Spanish group. We are very concerned, but we are also very aware that the Everson Ward leaders doing this things ARE inspired to do them.
So we don't know what to do.
Then, Saturday night, we put all the pieces together.
We have a very strong suspicion that we are getting ready to be white washed and the Spanish Elders are going to be moved into our apartment with a set of English missionaries and the Spanish group will be moved to the Everson Ward building and..........................yes.
We do acknowledge that it is a suspicion.....but we really don't know why all this Spanish work is becoming such a focus of the ward and we really don't know why we're so obsessed with our area book and we really don't know why Katie is being baptized earlier than we originally felt prompted to comitt her to (we were planning for mid-November before we found out that she was moving before then!).
It just seems like too perfect of a set up.
Anyways...so that's what's going on in Everson. I'm out of time...so can't really respond to too many of your questions atm.....ask 'em again next week I guess! haha sorry!
Love you all!
Sister Heather Holdsworth
So....exciting news from the week.................................
KATIE IS ON DATE FOR BAPTISM ON OCTOBER 30TH!!!
This will be the first baptism in Everson since February!!!
We were planning on passing her on to the YSA Elders...but we just found out that she's moving to Utah to go to UVU early November...(we knew she was going to be moving, but we didn't realize it was that soon)...and so now we have to worry if we transition her tomorrow, is that enough time for the YSA ward to fellowship her and make it a positive experience for her. She already knows everyone in our ward....she's really close with the Packards (wml and yw president) and will probably want Brother Packard to baptize her anyways.......So now we're worried about transitioning her. It's hard...because Sister Beckstrand and I have both served in Arlington in the YSA branch there, so we know what it's like to have other missionaries "poach" on the ysa investigators....but the Elders have been aware of us teaching her the whole time...they know that we HAVEN'T transitioned her yet because she wasn't really interested in it...........urgh. It's a little frustrating...but she IS on date, and she's really excited. WE'RE really excited. It doesn't really matter where she's baptized....just that she has a good fellowshipping experience. Our district leader said he'd talk with the zone leaders (the Elders over the ysa ward) for us and explain the situation to them. He thinks it would be best if we keep her in Everson ward...who knows what'll happen though.
Anyways...yes....we had a great lesson with her yesterday at the Packards all about the doctrine of Christ. She's doing so great. She loves the Church.
Anyways...other news....
Chris is doing really well. She also wants to be baptized (she and her member boyfriend she's living with need to get married still....). We also finally picked up her son, Derrick, as an investigator. He's YSA age, also. We gave him the information for the YSA ward right away. We don't know if he went yesterday...but he wasn't at our ward, and he said he's been loving Church when he's been coming with his mom, so hopefully! =)
So...once upon a time there was a rumor in the mission that we were getting white-washed and Elders were being put into the Everson Ward. That did not happen at the time....
Recently, Sister Beckstrand came into Everson Ward.
Sister Beckstrand shares my same passion for well-organized area books (our records of investigators, members, etc.).When she was transferred up here, the Everson Ward area book was a little above the travesty it was when I came into Everson Ward.
Sister Beckstrand and I have felt very frantic and passionate about the need for us to update and beautify the area book.We have spent a lot of our proselytizing time doing this. We don't feel guilty. It is something very essential to the success of our area.
This week, (as we are still far from done with the area book) we noticed how obsessed we've become with the area book, and we have come to wonder why this is.
Also recently, Bishop has become very concerned for the split-language families we have in our ward (one spouse speaks Spanish and one English, and so the Spanish speaker does not attend the Spanish group to keep their family together for Church, but then is left out a bit during Church because they don't speak English...).
He has decided to call and assistant ward mission leader over the Spanish-speakers within the ward. He will be teaching a Spanish Gospel Principles class.
Bishop, Brother Packard, and this awml are all very inspired in their callings......and they seem to have been inspired that this should become a "big deal" and we should encourage people to discuss this with their non-member friends.
Sister Beckstrand and I are very concerned that this sounds ridiculous because any Spanish speaking non-members must be transitioned to the Spanish Elders and the Spanish group. We are very concerned that this sounds like the Everson Ward is trying to start it's own Spanish group. We are very concerned, but we are also very aware that the Everson Ward leaders doing this things ARE inspired to do them.
So we don't know what to do.
Then, Saturday night, we put all the pieces together.
We have a very strong suspicion that we are getting ready to be white washed and the Spanish Elders are going to be moved into our apartment with a set of English missionaries and the Spanish group will be moved to the Everson Ward building and..........................yes.
We do acknowledge that it is a suspicion.....but we really don't know why all this Spanish work is becoming such a focus of the ward and we really don't know why we're so obsessed with our area book and we really don't know why Katie is being baptized earlier than we originally felt prompted to comitt her to (we were planning for mid-November before we found out that she was moving before then!).
It just seems like too perfect of a set up.
Anyways...so that's what's going on in Everson. I'm out of time...so can't really respond to too many of your questions atm.....ask 'em again next week I guess! haha sorry!
Love you all!
Sister Heather Holdsworth
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
October 3, 2011
Hello everyone!
Well, today has been a busy p-day. We ended up going to four different grocery stores over four hours....we spent SOOOO many miles today going into Bellingham...
Anyways....Conference was great! My favorite talk was Elder Anderson's talk on motherhood and eternal families. I also really enjoyed President Utchdorf's, Elder Packer's, Sister Dalton's and Elder Arden's (I think that was his name...the Seventy that talked about the Bible and the Book of Mormon working together...?). Did you notice how Elder Perry mentioned about the mormon.org campaign? That was pretty exciting for us...hoping our members will pick up on it and get more excited for it. It kicked off today...hopefully a lot of good will start happening!
Conference was really the highlight of our week. We spent the entire week leading up to it telling people about it and teaching about prophets...Pretty exciting stuff. The night before we were talking with our district leader and we were telling him how it felt like it was Christmas Eve and we were waking up for Christmas the next morning!
Sister Beckstrand and I are SOOOO excited that the tabernacle will be rebuilt as a temple! We couldn't believe it! That's so amazing! We're even MORE excited because we'll both be home by then, so we'll be able to volunteer for the open house and attend the dedication!! It'll be so nice to have another temple so close by...the Provo temple IS really over-capacity. I've waited upwards of three hours to do baptisms before....between the Tabernacle temple and the Payson temple, it should get much more efficient (and the Provo temple probably IS the most efficient temple I've been too....so that's saying something) =)
What we're wondering is: what are they going to call it?? The Provo temple is the Provo temple..."the South Provo Temple"? We were discussing this yesterday...We completely ruled out "the Utah Lake Temple" because we decided Utah Lake is the exact OPPOSITE of the temple, haha, but we couldn't decided on what would be the best name..."Y Mountain Temple" perhaps? haha
And isn't that 5 or 6 temples in Africa now? So exciting!
Another shocker: they released President Samuelson! Who is the new BYU president?! I was really surprised at a lot of the Seventies that they released...I mean, obviously they were supposed to be released...But Elder Costa? Elder Hinckley? And Cecil?!
It's good to hear that BYU won! I thought Riley graduated...guess I'm glad I was wrong!
We did quite enjoy your last package. The packaging was a little much...it made me crave Anthony's.... Loved seeing the pictures from Hilary's wedding! She looked gorgeous!! Loved her dress! =) We moved some stuff around so we could hang the decoration up in our study/kitchen area. Sister Beckstrand appreciated the YW values bookmark. =) Looking forward to the next package! Thank you so much!
Let's see...oh, other exciting news from this week...we no longer have to report on our new contacts of the week! Which is good....the week before last we had 6 and last week we had 2. haha. Now we can focus on Recent Convert/Less Active work...which is what we NEED to focus on in this area. So glad!
Coming up this next week we're going to have interviews with President Wilson. I'm interested to hear his reaction about the tabernacle temple (they're from Orem, if you didn't remember).
Anyways...I think that's all for now...We'll see you later!
Love you!
Sister Heather Holdsworth
Well, today has been a busy p-day. We ended up going to four different grocery stores over four hours....we spent SOOOO many miles today going into Bellingham...
Anyways....Conference was great! My favorite talk was Elder Anderson's talk on motherhood and eternal families. I also really enjoyed President Utchdorf's, Elder Packer's, Sister Dalton's and Elder Arden's (I think that was his name...the Seventy that talked about the Bible and the Book of Mormon working together...?). Did you notice how Elder Perry mentioned about the mormon.org campaign? That was pretty exciting for us...hoping our members will pick up on it and get more excited for it. It kicked off today...hopefully a lot of good will start happening!
Conference was really the highlight of our week. We spent the entire week leading up to it telling people about it and teaching about prophets...Pretty exciting stuff. The night before we were talking with our district leader and we were telling him how it felt like it was Christmas Eve and we were waking up for Christmas the next morning!
Sister Beckstrand and I are SOOOO excited that the tabernacle will be rebuilt as a temple! We couldn't believe it! That's so amazing! We're even MORE excited because we'll both be home by then, so we'll be able to volunteer for the open house and attend the dedication!! It'll be so nice to have another temple so close by...the Provo temple IS really over-capacity. I've waited upwards of three hours to do baptisms before....between the Tabernacle temple and the Payson temple, it should get much more efficient (and the Provo temple probably IS the most efficient temple I've been too....so that's saying something) =)
What we're wondering is: what are they going to call it?? The Provo temple is the Provo temple..."the South Provo Temple"? We were discussing this yesterday...We completely ruled out "the Utah Lake Temple" because we decided Utah Lake is the exact OPPOSITE of the temple, haha, but we couldn't decided on what would be the best name..."Y Mountain Temple" perhaps? haha
And isn't that 5 or 6 temples in Africa now? So exciting!
Another shocker: they released President Samuelson! Who is the new BYU president?! I was really surprised at a lot of the Seventies that they released...I mean, obviously they were supposed to be released...But Elder Costa? Elder Hinckley? And Cecil?!
It's good to hear that BYU won! I thought Riley graduated...guess I'm glad I was wrong!
We did quite enjoy your last package. The packaging was a little much...it made me crave Anthony's.... Loved seeing the pictures from Hilary's wedding! She looked gorgeous!! Loved her dress! =) We moved some stuff around so we could hang the decoration up in our study/kitchen area. Sister Beckstrand appreciated the YW values bookmark. =) Looking forward to the next package! Thank you so much!
Let's see...oh, other exciting news from this week...we no longer have to report on our new contacts of the week! Which is good....the week before last we had 6 and last week we had 2. haha. Now we can focus on Recent Convert/Less Active work...which is what we NEED to focus on in this area. So glad!
Coming up this next week we're going to have interviews with President Wilson. I'm interested to hear his reaction about the tabernacle temple (they're from Orem, if you didn't remember).
Anyways...I think that's all for now...We'll see you later!
Love you!
Sister Heather Holdsworth
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