Thanksgiving Mission Party - Yeehaw!

 November 24, 2012

Transfer 4, Week 1: Gobble Gobble!

 Howdy Y'all!!!!

 So, transfers happened and my new comp is from my MTC class of sisters (we were in the MTC at the same time) and her name is Sister C from Indianapolis!!!

She's AWESOME. It's way fun being with her. We're very similar too. She also went to BYU and played the viola in Highschool, and most importantly, she is a missionary as well with the same objectives and desires that I do! Doing the work the best we can!!! (with the Lord's help of course).

 But I will tell you a bit about our Thanksgiving. So we were on the Square until about 1pm and then we all drove (the Square was closed) to a place and had a huge dinner with all the mission presidency, senior couples, and a bunch of their family, and all 180 sister missionaries! It was crazy!

We learned a few line dances, yee-haw all y'all!!! (the Latin sisters and Polynesian sisters were VERY enthusiastic about dancing too.... what you can do when you're in a mission of all women).  We also did some activities to educate us about the meaning of Thanksgiving. And we got to eat dinner with the General Primary President and her husband. We have connections - but she came to dinner with us!! :) It was pretty neat. We watched a movie and cut out snowflakes and it was just a really nice time to kind of refresh and renew us, our first real break in a while. But, it was interesting.... After a few hours, all I really wanted to do was get to work again. That's the thing that makes me happy. We recreate and relax, so we can get back to work. That is where happiness lies. I just started feeling bored and just had a big desire to get back to missionary work again. 

It was interesting because before my mission, that time to veg and relax,  the time to get away from my work and stresses,  were the things that I looked forward to the most. Now, I know that that time isn't what makes happiness. Serving and working with the people around me is what brings joy  - losing ourselves in the concerns and needs of others. Relaxation and recreation are very important though to enable us to be able to get back to work. Progression in all aspects of our life is what brings true satisfaction and joy. Sister C and I were talking about it.  Before our missions we wanted to 'get away' from our troubles and concerns through watching movies, or hanging out with friends, or sleeping or eating, whatever; but now we realize that happiness lies in working through our problems and concerns and stresses. 

I love my mission. I love it so much. I am so grateful for this opportunity and that Heavenly Father let me come and helped me get here. I am the happiest I have ever been in my life, because I am not thinking of myself. I know that that is where happiness lies in. Look at those around you, and think today, "How can I serve them more?"  I'm sure you are already doing so much. Don't do more. Just do it more effectively. How long does one text message that uplifts someone, or an email with an uplifting video, or just a note of gratitude or a simple, "I love you", or including someone and their problems in a prayer take? Not long. 

 Another interesting thing that happened this week was a Chat that we had (on www.Mormon.org , Chat With A Missionary). It was with a member who was wanting to get his name removed from the church. We asked him some questions about why and what happened. He said that he just didn't think it was true or right. We proceeded to ask him and create a sort of check list with him: 

 

We asked him, "When was the last time that you prayed and read the Book of Mormon?"

At first he typed out "not for a long time",(yes we can see what people type before they send it- it's really helpful because then you can see someone's thought process)-  ,  but a second later he erased it and said: "I pray everyday and I really prayed about this choice and I got my answer."

We asked, "Are you keeping the commandments?"

"Yes"

"Do you pay your tithing?"

He responded, "Well I only believe that I should pay it when I want to, not when someone else is telling me to."

Which then Sister Creal responded, "Well... the person telling you to is God."

Which he then made some comment about how this church isn't true and he doesn't believe it anymore. 

Which I responded (sometimes the Spirit just speaks before you recognize what you're saying), "Well it's hard to know if something is true or not, if you don't 100% do it."

He disconnected after that. 

 But that chat really made me think,  Do I 100% do it? Do each of us 100% try it, believe it, love it? 

 I bet that those might get y'all thinking. Love you all. Thanks for the support and examples to me. Happy Thanksgiving. The Lord has blessed all of us with the most important thing of all - the restored gospel that Christ himself started. 

Love,

Sister Fisher

Wednesday, November 14, 2012
 

Transfer 3, Week 5: ..... let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

  Family and Friends!

 Some may question the title--- it snowed about 14-18 inches in Salt Lake City this weekend. It was insane. I've NEVER seen that much snow in my entire life at one time (except in the mountains of course). 

Thank you Dad for Both of the letters you sent- I received and read both of them. PS Tell B he looks old, mature, and better than he even was before and like he was an excellent missionary! I want to look like that when I come home. I hit my 6 month mark in a week. It's insane. 

I have a huge testimony of fasting now. We had a mission fast this weekend, and we received through chat and the Square and on the phone and in guest services 6 new people to teach. It's awesome. (not that we need more to teach right now.... haah)

 My head actually really hurts right now as I am emailing so most of my email will be in the images I've sent. The last one is an image of one of the MANY chats we took this week, and as you can see, a friend gave them a mormon.org card (which is in the back of the October Ensigns!) and so she checked out mormon.org and then came on chat with us and we talked for a while. She gave us her phone number and now missionaries are going to visit her and we will be talking to her as well!..... and we gave her the church's address. Miracles happen by small and simple acts.

 We visited a ward this Sunday and spoke there. My topic and talk is my take home message of the week, and I know that it is true and WORKS! :)

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Teach When You Find, Find When You Teach -- Nov 2012 talk by Sister Fisher

I’ve heard many people say (myself included before my mission):  I don’t have any missionary experiences, or I don’t know anyone who is interested in learning more. Preach My Gospel shows us that finding and teaching is the same thing.

Maybe one reason why people around us don’t show interest in learning more, is because they don’t actually know what we believe in.

How we speak to our family, how we dress, all of our conversations, the media we watch and listen to, how we use our time, and our attitudes toward meetings and church are all ways to show our beliefs. However, as a youth told us on Temple “Oh, I’ll just be an example to them”----It is no longer enough to just be an example, or show what we believe. We have to share WHAT we believe.

We answer chats, phone calls and questions from people all the time who all say “Yes I’ve noticed my Mormon friends do this or that, but I don’t know why they do it.”

Too often we wait for formal opportunities to share the “why” of what we do and who we are. We wait until we bring them to church and explain to them there, or wait for the missionaries to teach them, or we write our testimonies in copies of the Book of Mormon and give it to them, or we wait to explain what we believe and why we acted the way we did in high school in a letter you write a few days before you go into the MTC.  (Me)

As Preach My Gospel teaches us, we don’t need to wait to share what we believe. Our friends and neighbors already know and can tell that we are different—what they need to know is why we are different.

As President Uchtdorf’s family did, we can all explain or share religious experiences that we have as we go along, instead of waiting for a formal occasion to do so. We don’t have to say, would you like to learn more? Or do you have a few minutes that I can share _________ with you. Or if you just read this you’ll find out why I ________________. As President Uchtdorf said in his talk Waiting on the Road to Damascus, you don’t have to wait to share your beliefs with friends by saying “I’d like to bear my testimony.”

He says: “Years ago our family lived and worked among people who in almost every case were not of our faith. When they asked us how our weekend was, we tried to skip the usual topics—like sports events, movies, or the weather—and tried to share some religious experiences we had as a family over the weekend—for instance, what a youth speaker had said about the standards from For the Strength of Youth or how we were touched by the words of a young man who was leaving on his mission or how the gospel and the Church helped us as a family to overcome a specific challenge we had.

We tried not to be preachy or overbearing. My wife, Harriet, was always the best at finding something inspirational, uplifting, or humorous to share. This often would lead to more in-depth discussions.”—UNQUOTE……..(--President Uchtdorf, in Waiting on the Road to Damascus) Preach My Gospel tells us to share short powerful messages where the spirit can testify of the simple truths we believe in—or the ‘why’. 

As people notice that we dress differently at prom, instead of saying “my parents or my church said I have to” we can explain why we dress modestly by saying “I know that I am a daughter of God, and because of that I want to dress my body respectfully” or “well, one day I want to be married in the Temple, and I need to dress modestly to prepare” or “I dress modestly so that the spirit of God can be with me.”

 

Or when people ask us why we don’t work on Sunday we can share a principle of the gospel that we believe, such as “A prophet of God has said that the way we can keep the Sabbath day holy is by attending church, spending time with our families and resting from work on that day.”

 

When we switch the radio station because an inappropriate song comes on, instead of saying “I just don’t like this song,” we can say “Well I don’t want the thoughts that will come in my head if we listen to this song,” or “the spirit won’t be with me if I listen to this song.”

 

When people ask us about not drinking alcohol or coffee, instead of saying “well I’m not allowed to” we can share how we know that a Prophet of God revealed that those things are not good for our body, or it prevents us from feeling the spirit, or another simple truth.

Or when they ask us about why we don’t date until we’re 16, or we date in groups or are very careful with how far we take physical affection, we can share “that we know that marriage is very important to God, and that we must keep each other clean and respect the standards a Prophet of God have established to keep us safe.”

When we teach as we find (or as we have the opportunity to share), and not waiting to find before we teach, our friends will be interested in learning more because they will actually know what we believe, not just how we live our life.   When we refer quickly and simply to the truths we know, or the why behind what we do, I know that we will all have many more missionary opportunities. We’re not asking you to work harder, just smarter.

As we share short powerful messages we will help direct those who are seeking for the gospel, but don’t know where to find it, actually find it.  We will be able to share all the blessings and guidance that we have from the restored Gospel, with all those around you that you love. We will also more effectively keep our covenant we made with our Heavenly Father at baptism, to “stand as a witness for God at all times and in all things and in all places.” 
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Love,
Sister Fisher
PS. Sorry about the short letter today. Next week will have more.

An eraser that's big enough for all our mistakes. Just like the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

    Music and the Spoken Word broadcast, Sundays 8am Mtn time

 

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

 

Family and Friends!

So this week I ate some octopus flavored chips from some island I don't remember where. They actually do exist! That was an experience. 

One way to help the work:  We keep on getting these people on chat that say, "oh yeah, I read that in the Book of Mormon. I checked it out of my local library." ---the only way the Book of Mormon gets into a public library is if people donate them. So go donate a copy today! (please!)

We were also chatting with someone this week who we taught about how God is her Father and He loves her, and that prayer is actually communication between God our Father and us, His children, and the purpose of life, and that Heavenly Father (God) actually provides a way for us to make it through life, on the best path, the path that leads us away from unnecessary heartache, and a sure way that brings happiness and peace and true joy, not just a path that we have to learn, from trial and error. This is all she said: "It's too good to be true." 

That's the thing. It is too good. But it is true. That's a testimony that I have from this week.

 So the next thing I'd like to say about this week is this phrase "No rules." R, our 17 year old friend who we are teaching the gospel too, who can't get baptized because he has to get off of parole first, told us when we taught him about the For the Strength of Youth, told us, "well, I grew up having no rules." I was shocked. Appalled. He basically could do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. I'm sure his mother thought that this would create a relationship where he would be good enough friends with Mom that he'd tell her everything. However, that's not the case! He still does whatever he wants, and still doesn't tell her anything. He tells us! Over and over again we ask him if he's read the scriptures we've sent, if he prayed, if he did x and y and z, and over and over again, we have to tell him, well I guess we'll call you back in an hour when you have time to do that. And only THEN does he remember. He keeps telling us the reason why he just can't force himself to do it, is because "he is just too lazy". He missed church this past weekend because he didn't wake up to the other missionaries calling him 5 times. It's just sad. It's hard to see someone who wants to change, but is a victim of their own lack of discipline. He plays too many video games and watches too many TV shows/movies and forgets that 6 or 8 hours have just passed by and voila! The whole day is gone. 

I just feel sorry for him. It's always going to be hard to follow commandments, be disciplined, a mission will be almost impossible unless he gets this under control, and what does this stem from?  "I have no rules." He's not happy. He wants to change. He wants to avoid drugs. He wants to become a different person, get a job, go to school etc. But he can't. Because he's too used to having "no rules". 

This is a thank you to my parents, for forcing me to do things (good things) but I sometimes didn't want to do, and for making me do it anyway. For helping me to see that just doing work- no matter if you didn't want to or do want to, is necessary to get what we really do want. 

To all of you kids out there, thank your parents for teaching you correct principles, for caring enough about you and your welfare to give you rules and to help you be disciplined and in control of yourself.

This is the reason why we have rules and commandments. Like I told about the Chat above: Commandments are the "path that leads us away from unnecessary heartache, and a sure way that brings happiness and peace and true joy". I know that to be true. 

I also know that the Gospel and the grace and mercy and the enabling POWER of the Atonement can change people. I know that will be true in R's case. He might have to learn first and see even more of those consequences first, but I know we can all change. That is true.

 Love you all,

 Sister Fisher

 P.S. (We had a) mission halloween party (the Square had to be closed down at 5pm  so....We got to watch Harry Potter 1 on Halloween... to everyone's IMMENSE surprise. A lot of the foreign missionary sisters hadn't seen it :))

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Transfer 3: Week 2

Family and Friends!

L is going to be baptized this Saturday. Wow. She has an incredible story I'd like to share from this past week. Recently her health declined and she was in the hospital for a few days for high blood pressure (just the stress caught up) but now she's doing fine again. She said that was the reason why she wasn't baptized this past Saturday was because she was in the hospital- (a really good excuse! :) But the cool thing is what happened to her 11 year old- J while she was gone. The Mission President of the mission that she lives in, heard about what their family has been through, called L and told her that he and his wife were coming to take J to stay at their house with their family for a few days while she was in the hospital. The Mission President (blessed inspired wonderful man!!!) took J to parks and a go-cart place and just helped him have some fun for a few days, and he was particularly thrilled to be able to sleep in a big waterbed! And turns out--- the Mission President's profession was a counselor! Wow. The Lord puts the right people at the right times in our lives. J didn't want to go to a counselor, but he was able to open up and release some of the things that have bothered him and talk it out with that Mission President -- someone who could really help him- someone trained and someone very inspired too. It's awesome. L is now going to be baptized this Saturday at 4pm!!!

She is so neat! She's planning already on inviting all her friends, neighbors and coworkers to it! And she's such a good missionary example because she is planning on having a dinner party in a few weeks where she has a ton of her friends over.... and just happens to invite the missionaries! :) And they'll come over and she wants them to come have a lesson. Her friends can stay and listen if they want (to the amazing message that helped her through the most difficult part of her life) or they don't have to listen, that's fine. Wow. She is an awesome missionary already--- and she's NOT even a member yet! Wow!

So other cool story of the week. We were on Chat (assignment) and we were chatting with this guy and he was telling us that he knows the Book of Mormon is true, and how he knows that is because he read it every single day when he was in jail and that he came close to God and wants to change his life and start over all because of that. We also found out that he's just a 17 year old kid! We've been talking with him on the phone now and he wants to be baptized, but a few days ago we found out that he's still struggling with an addiction to drugs. We told him the story of the chicken and the Eagle.... It was how an eagle was raised on a chicken farm and the farmer told everyone that that was who the eagle now was and that's all he'd ever be.  That he'd never fly and he'd never know he was an eagle, all because he was raised to be a chicken. But a man didn't believe that. He told the farmer that if he could spend some time with the eagle and bring him to a high mountain top and let the eagle feel the wind between its feathers that he would remember that God made him an eagle and he would spread his wings and fly. So he picked up the eagle in the farm and lifted it in the sky and said "You are an eagle, spread your wings and fly!" but the eagle saw the chickens all around and just hopped off and began eating with the other chickens. But just like the man knew, the next day he instead brought the eagle to a tall mountain top, and held it high in the air. The eagle felt the wind around it's wings and saw the majesty all around him high in the sky. The man then said to it,  "You are an eagle, spread your wings and fly!" and with that, the eagle looked into the sky and spread its wings and flew away.

We likened that to the Anti-Nephi-Lehi's (in the Book of Mormon) who buried their weapons of war in the ground, putting their temptation out of sight and out of mind. The other thing about the Anti Nephi Lehis is that they changed their name to this. They changed their identity after they repented. They no longer reminded themselves of their past and held onto those sinful things (which, at the time, the Nephites were wicked). They learned from their mistakes, and casted their past away and went forward in their lives. They truly repented because they shedded and casted out the previous person they were. The accepted (as we all must) that we are a new person, a new being made clean and brand new through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

The eagle had to be removed from its past, from the world it knew before and from the negative influences all around that were convincing it that all it was was a chicken and could never reach its potential as an eagle, what it was created to be!

Another thing we told him was to get a clean piece of paper. Then poke a hole in the paper. We then told him to try and tape together the hole and make it look new again. That is what some people think repentence is like. We still have scars of our past, but Christ just heals them. But that's not true. Each time we repent, we get a new piece of paper. A totally new, whole piece of paper. We called it his "eagle" piece of paper, and the one with the hole was his "chicken" one.

What are his dreams, potential, and the person Heavenly Father wants him to become and knows he can become? That's the eagle sheet of paper.

Who is the person the devil wants us to be, and keeps us from going on and becoming new and better, but instead discouraged and depressed? That's the chicken.

 That's my challenge to you all this week.

What is on your eagle sheet of paper, and what's on your chicken? After you write all those things that Satan wants you to believe on your chicken sheet of paper, go and bury it in the ground like the Anti-Nephi-Lehi's, never again to remember or be discouraged by the lies and false things, and stick your new sheet of paper your Eagle sheet, and put that by your bed, to look at each day and remember, that you are an Eagle, spread your wings and fly. Cast away all of the chicken thoughts and only embrace the truth- God made you to be an eagle.

Love you all,

Sister Fisher

 

Something funny I saw on a wipe board that I wanted to share.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

 

Transfer 3, Week 1:... it's only been about 24 hours but... Hi!!!

Dear family and friends,

 Surprise!!!! My P-days got changed this transfer to Wednesdays!

 SO my new home is in guest services which is where a few sisters get to serve. This was my 'on job' training, but my trainer is really nice and patient so it's been really great and the time just FLIES there. We answer the most bizarre phone calls and transfer them to the correct place they need to go....  :) haha. Another cool thing is we book all the tours and scheduling and get to see the V.I.P. tours of ambassadors and special groups of people who come and go through the Square, so it's neat to see all the many many important people who come here from all over the world.

 I was very lucky because conference was so crazy and they didn't want us to get sick, they allowed Monday and Tuesday this week to be "sleep in" days, where we could sleep or do whatever we wanted until when we had to be on the Square, and the next day. What's weird is now that I'm super rested (well... except that I woke up at 4:30am to take Sister L to the airport....) all I want to do is go work! I honestly don't know what to do with myself today on P-day number 2. I think I'll take advantage of the extra time and study (our personal study seems to always get over scheduled my Square duties). 

 Hmm.... what else? Each transfer just keeps going faster and faster and I think that's how it'll be until I "die" and go home. Some sisters leaving for home in China had to be released as a missionary yesterday (cuz they were finished) and it was the SADDEST thing. They were so traumatized by it. Our entire purpose, meaning and identity is gone, just like that. I'm still pretty numb because both of my comps just left to go home, at the same time (cuz they were finished with their 18 month mission). Luckily I still have Sister M who I love so dearly (from the MTC) here with me otherwise I think I'd really feel lost.

Hmm....maybe I'll include some fun facts about Temple Square we share with people:

 Tabernacle:

Built in 12 years and finished in 1875. The dome-shaped Tabernacle is one of the most acoustically perfect buildings in the entire world. It is a miraculous building because the study of acoustics wasn't even started until the 1900's, 25 years after this building was built. The building was built by Henry Grow, and Truman O. Angel. Brigham Young received revelation from God, that he needed to build a building that could hold 13,000 pioneers, who could all hear his voice speak---in a time of no electricity or microphones. How was he to achieve this task? 

Well, much like the Brother of Jared and Nephi building a boat, Brigham Young took to heart the scripture that says "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." And Brigham Young knew that. He knew that if he did the best he could the Lord would provide a way, much like Moses parting the Red Sea.  So he started thinking of ways he could build this building, and as he was greeting some of the new saints coming west from Europe, he met Henry Grow--- a famous bridge builder. 

President Young asked him what was the largest bridge he'd built that was unsupported, and he said 150 feet. President Young said "That's perfect." And so with the expertise of someone who developed their God-given talents, mingled with the inspiration of God, the Tabernacle in the Salt Lake City was created (one of the building marvels of the world), with the ceiling made up of 9 unsupported bridges. The acoustics were so good, that the reverb was too much, and carpet was added along with another wooden balcony. Great artists like Andrea Boccelli, and of course the Mormon Tablernacle Choir, perfect to record albums inside the Tabernacle. Today we demonstrate the acoustics of the building with a microphone so that people can believe this remarkable miraculous feat. We actually drop pins, and a small nail, and rip paper and every single person in the whole building can hear us. It's unreal. It's also a huge testimony to me that all things really are possible with the Lord. 

The Organ:

It has 11,623 pipes and is the 12th largest (by number of pipes) in the world. BUT---for example, the largest organ is in Boston and is unplayable because it has not been maintained well. The Tabernacle organ is one of the best maintained organs in the world, and paired up with the incredible acoustic space of the Tabernacle which it resides in, many organ players consider it to be the finest organ in the world. All of the big pipes in front are made out of wood (just like the pillars which are painted to look like marble) and then gold leafed on the outside. The five lucky organists who are on staff for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and who give daily organ concerts in the hall, are some of the best organ players in the world (all have PhD's from notable universities and have toured around the world). The main organ player of the choir has an amazing story he shared with us at a devotional for the sister missionaries... 

He told us that one day he was practicing as usual, and his right arm started to hurt and then he was in pain because one of his tendons snapped as he practiced. The doctor gave him two options: 1. Go on having a normal life, somewhat able to use his right hand, but never able again to play the organ like he used to, and avoid surgery, and 2. Have surgery which has a 50/50 chance of healing correctly and maintaining complete dexterity, or healing and being stiffer than it already was for the rest of his life. 

What a decision to make. After praying and fasting, he found peace in his decision to have surgery trusting that God's will be done. He knew that God had lead him to the organ and that serving him with his talent was his only intention, so if the Lord decided to close that one door, he would open another and he would be able to find just as much joy doing the Lord's will, without the organ, as doing the Lord's will with it. So his entire profession and career and passion on the line, he did the surgery. After surgery he had to wait a few months for his arm to fully heal. In the meantime, he exercised his faith, and still practiced the organ, but only his footwork- FOR MONTHS. By a miracle, his right arm healed completely and in a few months he was back to his original level in left/right hands, but because he could only practice his footwork on the organ, he was a much better organ player than he ever was before!!! 

There is a story that he has an incredible virtuoso arrangement of a certain hymn which showcases his incredible footwork (the name escapes me...sorry) and one day a man approached him and asked him if he had copyrighted the sheet music to the hymn. The organ player just looked at him puzzled. The man continued "So no one else will take it as their own!". The organ player just smiled and said "No need. No one else can play it!"

 The Temple:

The Salt Lake City Temple is the largest LDS Temple in the world, and also took the longest to build as well---40 years. If you started work on the Temple and you were 20 years old, it would finally be completed when you were 60!!!! Both Brigham Young and the head architect Truman O. Angel, died before it was completed-- they never saw it finished in their life time, yet they still worked persistently.  Something that amazes me, is that in the first 20 years they only built up to 10 feet of the whole temple---only up to the first window! And the rest of the 200+ feet was built in the remaining 20 years. Each block of granite took 4 days to move on an ox-driven cart from the canyon to the temple site. Then they had to hand chisel each block until it was perfectly smoothed. One stone carver Henry Moyle, worked on the Temple tirelessly. He would wake up at 3am in the morning on Monday, and walk from Alpine to Salt Lake to begin work on the Temple. He'd finish on Friday night at 6pm, just to walk back home so he could start his farm chores on the weekend. He did this for years. One weekend when he was milking a cow, she kicked him in the leg and shattered his knee cap. There was no other way to save the leg besides amputating it at the knee. They took a door and tied him down to it, and took a saw and sawed it off. As he was healing, he began to carve himself a new leg out of wood. When he was well enough, he started practicing around on it in the yard.  One morning he woke up and started buttoning up his coat. His wife asked "Where are you going John?" he replied "to the Temple". She just looked at him and said "you don't have a leg anymore, surely the Lord will call someone else!", but optimistic and faithful, he said "The Lord called me to be a stone worker on the Temple, and He hasn't released me yet!" so he walked on his wooden leg 30 miles to the Temple, and he was the one who completed the Temple to the end, (by walking there) on his wooden leg so he could carve the stone plaque  on the side of the Temple that declares "Holiness to the Lord, the House of the Lord." Many more stories of immense sacrifice and miracles tell of pioneers who helped contribute to building a Temple to their God. One woman, who didn't have any money or men to help build the temple, she found some dead buffalo along the trail, and pulled off the hair off of them. With the buffalo hair, she knitted gloves for the stone cutters to wear in the cold of winter. Everyone helped and kept working on the building because of the significance it had for them, the hope it provided, the blessings they desired and the covenants they wanted to make with God. If only each one of us as we enter into the Temple can feel that way!!!

Welp, that's just a little of the cool stuff we share with people here! It's real life faith/miracles-built buildings here! (and you would never know just how remarkable they are unless you'd heard the stories!)

Love you always,

Sister Fisher