Sunday, October 22, 2017

Sundays are busy, even for seniors like us.  Between home teaching, visiting teaching, a separate trip to the church for choir practice, closing up the building after church, and attending the block—where we gave the prayers in Sacrament Meeting—there was little time for personal study and family history. 

I’m trying to organize the remaining family names we found and printed in St. George to take to the temple here for help in getting them finished before the two-year mark is up.  The temple won’t take them after that until you print new cards.  The names go back into the system or become “temple names” and anyone can do the work unless you reserve the names again.

One brother who is leaving this mission soon spoke in Sacrament meeting today and shared the concept that we are always an example by the way we live and who we are—either an example for good or an example of bad choices.  That’s a given, but the context in which he gave examples was very impressionable and made me realize how important our example really is.  We may never know the impact we have had on someone’s life because of the way our example impressed him or her.  Maybe someone was impressed to look into the Church and hear the missionaries because of our integrity and devotion to being a follower of Christ.  Or, maybe someone’s faith was weakened because of something even small and thoughtless that we may have done that belied our beliefs and appeared hypocritical.  My prayer is to always be that example for good so that if it comes back to haunt me, I will love the haunt!!  😊