October 8, 2011

Hey Everyone!

How was conference? I bet it was great, can't wait to read it in the Ensign! What a welcome back to Temple Square, it was just how I expected life to be. The mission had set a goal of receiving 7,041 member referrals in two days. Thankfully the weather stayed nice for those two days. But Sister Mata'utia decided the day before that we were going to just work, work, work and get as many as we could get with the Lord's help. So we ran up the stairs that morning and hit the square. Sunday morning we had an emergency meeting saying that we had only reached 2,000 member referrals and we needed to step it up. Even though we felt really good about what we had accomplished the day before we felt we needed to step it up even more. By 10am we had surpassed what we had received Saturday. Funny, how the Lord blesses us according to what we expect of ourselves. If we shoot low, He will only give us what we expect. Now if only I had faith to walk on water...Anyway so we were able to attend the Saturday PM session and it was a great way to end the two days of swollen feet and happy hearts. We had a mission meeting at 9 to unveil what we had accomplished. As 8:15 rolls around we don't see any sisters and we said, "What slackers! There are so many people out here!" So we kept talking to people and then a member walks up and says, "Hey sisters aren't you supposed to be in that missionary meeting in the Tabernacle?" Uh... we book it over there and arrive a half hour late! Who changed the time?! Obviously the line of authority didn't work this time. But we got 9,222 member referrals!! Now it is time to call them all.

I thought life would slow down after that. NOPE! We are at Welfare Square 4 days a week with bus tours after that. Since everyone is still hanging around after conference we have tours every half hour. We scarf down food as they are watching their 15 min movie then run to the theater. When we finish with our time at Welfare Square we need to run to the Joseph Smith Memorial building to greet bus tours. We are their only contact with missionaries since they don't go to Temple Square and we make sure that all their needs are met. We had a great conversation with a bus driver who loves everything about Temple Square. It was great to tell him WHY we need Jesus Christ and WHY this church is the only authorized church on the earth. Not interested in missionaries but he will later! Another miracle we had was a tour at welfare square. We had these two ladies from Jordan (who now live in Australia, I swear I have met more people from Australia in this last week than my entire life) who loved everything about what the church does. It was such a spiritual tour and they were so open to learning more. They grabbed the cards themselves! Just goes to show how some people are just ready to hear the gospel, we simply need to invite them.

Life is such a blur and we go to bed exhausted every night. But we are working hard and loving life. Until next week!