11-17-2014
Hello Everyone! Well, it's starting to chill
down in the valley of Arizona. It was cold enough this morning I grabbed my
jacket before leaving the house to go to the gym. The native Arizonians are
pulling out the coats- I'm contemplating pulling out the long sleeves. But it
still feels so nice in the day! We'll see how the weather pans out :)
Yesterday was the dedication of the Phoenix
Arizona Temple, the 144th Temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints on the earth today! I haven't had the opportunity to see it in person
yet, but I will soon. I am so thankful that my mission is just a few hours away
from my home! I'm probably be down here all the time :) The dedication was
beautiful and amazing, and the Spirit there in the Stake Center where we
watched the broadcast was peaceful and fulfilling, but not all-consuming huge.
It was warm and comfortable and beautiful, so much like the temple itself. I
love our prophets and apostles on the earth! And I love our temples!
This week was crazy. We had Elder Lawrence of
the Seventy come visit our mission for a mission tour. The mission leadership
also decided to implement a higher bar for us to reach so we can be better and
do better. One of these rules is: the only music we are allowed to listen to is
hymns and primary songs sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. That's it. This
hurts very much, but I can just so thankful I don't have to make that three
hour drive up the mountains with that rule, I would definitely fall asleep and
die. So our mission is having an adjustment! We are also reading the Book of
Mormon as a mission, marking all the references to Jesus Christ, before the end
of the year. So we are busy busy busy! All the missionaries are working hard,
and we love this work!
On Saturday we had a crazy service
project for our investigator Sharon- almost all the Elders we had collected to
come cancelled last minute or didn't know. Those of us who came worked hard to
clean out her garage of boxes, organize it (somewhat) and have a yard sale - at
the same time. Basically it was contained chaos. We even had members of the
yard come and help! But we had hundreds of boxes collected over dozens of years
full of all sorts of things. We threw a lot of things away (secretly) , and we
wanted to take the items that didn't sell in the yard sale to charity- but she
wouldn't. So after all day of work, we packed her garage full of boxes again.
That was a really rough day, let me tell you!
We will continue to try to teach her the
lessons, but we can't continue to help her with her boxes if we are unable to
make progress. So, we'll see what happens this week!
We are still striving to find more people to
visit, more people to teach. This week was rough, but this next week is going
to be awesome! I can already tell :)
I love you all! My hope is that you will all
live worthy to enter a temple of the Lord and make promises to Him there that
will bless you and your family for all of this life, and for eternity! Always
point yourself towards the temple!
Love you!
Love, Sister Hailey Brown
(photo from lds.org of the
Phoenix temple) :)
photos of mission tour
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