Monday, June 24, 2013

Wouldn't you know it... the calendar said it was summer and so things began to get hot around here. I'm sure it will be more but for now we think it is hotter than it should be.  We have hit 90 with high humidity so a bit uncomfortable but we are surviving.  Love the AC and fans!  We had a couple of special tours this week.  One was the director of the Kirtland Temple Visitors Center and the interns that they have for the summer.  It ended up that I did that one by myself as Dan was on another tour when they came and another came after we had started with them.  They were very interested in the history of the Home, as well as the happenings here.  We were able to tell them all of the special things and bear testimony of the sacred events that happened here.  After all their history is our history up to this time.  It was a great tour and I felt it was a very special opportunity to have them here.  They are a special bunch of young people.  We have met some of them in the temple and appreciate their service as they do tours through the Kirtland Temple and being able to share that with them.  Then there was our BIG day.  This was a day I had worried about for weeks.  We had about 400 scheduled for Saturday morning.  Both us and the Packers were there as well as three companionships of sisters and we were ready for them at 8 a.m. and here they came, in waves I might add.  Three buses, then two and then another two and another one.  One of those was unscheduled so sort of a surprise as well as couples and families that dared to venture in with all of those buses.  We each took a group of about 20 through the Home, each rotating in and out.  As we finished one group, there was another ready to go.  In fact it was steady with no breaks from 8 until about 12:30.  In the final tally for that morning we had had 511 visitors.  So awesome!  We had wondered how we would do it and Heavenly Father let us stew a bit and then He made it all work.  Love those tender mercies!!
Last night was the special broadcast and it will be exciting to see all of that implemented into missionary work.  All of us need to pick up the pace and the Lord's work will go  forward. Looking ahead to a busy July, in fact we can't believe it almost July and we have been on our mission for 9 months.  Tim

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