The rumors are true! We got Jimmered this week at Deseret Book Store. I asked Jimmer if he had any friends who need the gospel in their lives. He laughed and said he had tons. He proceeded to give me no names. Ruuude. Then it started to get awkward so I just told him to write his name on the referral card. Sister Nixon then thanked him for entertaining our lives sine we live on a square. Crickets followed.
Also this week, we got a sit down lesson about the tabernacle organ with Richard Elliott, the main MoTab organ man. He told us all the ins and outs behind the tabernacle organ. My favourite story that he told was when Helen Keller came to the tabernacle about 80 years ago and asked for them to play, "That song about faith that your members wrote." So, the organist at the time played, "Come Come Ye Saints" while Helen Keller put her hands on the organ to feel the music. Then Brother Elliott played Come Come Ye Saints for us using only the pipes from the original organ from the time of the pioneers. It was almost as good as seeing Jimmer. The next day, a few of us sisters got a tour inside the conference center organ. We got to see some of the thousands of pipes and see some of the secret passage ways that the general conference speakers use. We then got the same kind of pipe tour in the tabernacle organ. I'll send some organ pictures next week.
Yesterday we had an amazing tour with 4 awesome women who work as paralegals in the U.S Army. My favourite, Belinda was just so soulful and full of faith that she ate up everything we taught. At the temple model, we taught her about baptisms for people who never got the chance to be baptized in this life and she loved it. Be bypassed their questions about poligamy like champs so that we could teach what they needed. Whe ended our tour at the statue of Christ and found out that one of the women is basically Church shopping. Cha-ching. Sooo, we be sending her the Book of Mormon with some missionaries where she lives in California and same goes for Belinda.
Also yesterday, we took a tour with 4 members of the Church. One man was from Toronto area and the other man was his missionary who served in Toronto and baptized him 30 years ago. It was pretty clear that the Torontonian couple had been in and out of the Church since their conversion so it was cool to see them inspired by the pioneers and the history of Salt Lake. Since we are missionaries and not tour guides, we knew we had to commit the members in our group to do simething to bring them closer to Christ. Sister Savelio and I secretly discussed what we thought we should commit them to do and decided to give them referral cards so that they could do misisonary work with their friends. Usually if I can tell that someone is less-active in the Church I think of something more focused on themselves that they can do like reading the scriptures everyday, having family prayer or going to Church but we knew that this group would benefit the most by doing missioary work. The couple from Utah gave us a name of a less-active member to uplift and invite while the couple from Toronto almost couldn't stop with the list of people that need the gospel in their lives with the knowledge of eternal families. Seriously, the more names she wrote, the more people came into her mind. And I know that there's so much work to do in Ontario so that made my heart feel nice... especially seeing the "613" area code.
We looove making friends at Welfare Square. It's super humbling. My new service missionary friend, Elder Briskey entertains us with his humour and constant lies.
We're now reading the Book of Mormon as a mission because it's that good. Six pages a day will get us to finish before the end of the year. Anyone want to join? Welp, I await some baby Possin pictures this week. Number six shouldn't be so rough, right? Thank you and goodnight.
LOVE, SISTER KYLE
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