October 31, 2011

Week 3 of Transfer 15

These weeks are getting faster and faster, it has been a blur since last Monday. Let me think of all that has happened. Well last Thursday we were able to attend the Salt Lake Temple. That is one of the great perks of being an assistant, going downtown once a transfer to take the new missionaries on a tour of temple square and attend the Salt Lake Temple. There is so much to learn at the temple and I love attending, I think I will probably work in the temple when first come home. I like the analogy of the onion, every time you peal a layer off there is another one to discover, its a really wonderful experience.

When I first came into the mission you were able to attend the temple once a week and it has changed several times since. President has come to a decision of what he likes and it seems like it will be kept as it is currently for awhile. You are able to attend once a transfer (every 6 weeks) on an assigned day to an assigned temple with your district (6-8 missionaries). Well since we make that schedule its pretty flexible as to when we are able to attend. President gave us permission to attend the Jordan River Temple this past Saturday as Daniel England's recent converts from Nepal received their endowments and were sealed together as a family of ten! As we baptized their relatives who have recently moved to Utah we were able to get extremely close to this family, I love them. I can't wait for the Gajmer's (their relatives) to be sealed next year, I hope to attend. You can image it was quite the experience and process as they received their endowments since a few of them have poor English. I am excited for you to meet them.

Sunday we had the privilege of speaking in one of our favorite wards and we were given the full meeting, I enjoyed it. I love preparing for talks and I love sharing my testimony.

This letter so far is really general, its because my mind is on other things to be honest! I'm sorry. We have lots do to and tonight we are having Elder Stephen B. Allen come speak to our mission at the Taylorsville Institute. He is the director of the missionary department of the church and I can't wait. He has been asked to speak on teaching with power and authority, I will eat up all of his words! What else has happened this week... We had four baptisms! On Saturday Ashleigh and Shyanne Kunder were baptized. You may remember their names from the story I shared recently about singing a hymn before we began a lesson. Last night we had the baptism of Alec and Katja Tolo! They have been extremely fun to teach, I love their family. We met them by just opening our mouth while walking out of one of our lessons a few weeks back and I am so glad we invited them to come unto Christ that day.

I think that wraps up the week!? In one of our stakes a missionary just returned home from the Vancouver, British Columbia mission. He knew Elder Kearl and said he is great and serving as a very strong zone leader. That made me extremely happy! He also knew or heard of Daniel England and said he is known as the Ward Mission Leader who just gets things done, even takes his ward missionaries out tracting! I love it and hope I can remain as faithful as him. Returning home and leaving this lovely life is a scary thought but I don't let it enter my mind often, staying focused to the end for sure. May I add to this letter I am loving my scripture study, things just keep clicking and I am learning more and more of the Savior's example. The more I learn of Him the more I realize how much I have to change.
Thanks for reading! Love Elder Pizzey