Oquirrh Mountain Temple

WHAT A WEEK!!! Everything was going so so good and then all of a sudden on Thursday everything just seemed to start canceling. Monday through Wednesday it seemed like nothing could stop the work in our area! We were doing awesome. All of our appointments were holding, and none of them were canceling. All of the appointments were going really well and we were continually putting people on date for baptism and helping people work towards the waters of baptism. And then Thursday hit us. Thursday afternoon, one after another every single one of our appointments started to cancel. It was horrible. Thursday night we had 5 appointments cancel. This was the first day of my mission that had been like this. It was really hard. I was like why? Why would this happen? Then Friday rolled around. And three minutes before the baptism interview of two girls that we were going to baptize on Saturday their dad called us and told us that the baptism was cancelled. We were devistated. Pretty much everything that we had set up for the last three days was cancelled! Obviously somebody is trying really hard to make the work in this area stop and not progress! But I know that this week is going to be better! And that we are going to be able to get back into those houses and be able to teach those people once again and help them make those decisions again to enter into the waters of baptism and make those sacred covenants with their heavenly father.
It was so good to talk to my family yesterday! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM! And happy mother's day to all of you women out there! I truely am thankful to all of you and the example that all of you have been to me in my life! MOM thanks for all that you have done for me in my life and the example that you have been and still am in my life. You are one of my best friends! It was good to hear all of your voices on the phone! Today my companions and I had the awesome opportunity to go to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. My dad actually picked us up and took us to the temple. We thought we were going to be with a big crowd of people and just kind of be ushered through but turns out that was not so. I also knew that my sister Melissa would be doing a shift at the temple and that I would hopefully get the chance to just say a quick hello and then goodbye. Turns out we were the only ones going through the temple this morning. So President Homer took Elder Gilliland, Elder Bayba, my dad, Melissa, and myself on a personnel tour of the temple. It was so good to be with my dad and Melissa and be able to walk through the temple and be able to feel the spirit of the temple there. It was also really nice to be able to spend that time with Melissa as she will be leaving on her mission here very shortly. Well all in all this week was a good one. I love you all and pray for all of you every day! The church is true!