Second P-Day

Hi Everyone!

Sister Smiley & Sister Guanzon

I can't believe this is already my second P-day! We've talked to a lot of people and had some really great experiences. Yesterday was interesting because we were trying to show Temple Square to a baptist minister. He was difficult to talk to because he wouldn't stop talking. He told us about how we need to be humble and we can only interpret the Bible through the Holy Spirit and he just kept going. The only thing of  much worth that I could get in was that I know that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God. He then proceeded to tell me that I don't really know that. The whole experience just made me laugh. Needless to say, we didn't ask if he would be interested to learn more.

Every morning we have "gym", or exercise time. I usually get in about ten to fifteen minutes of running. My companion isn't in to exercising very much, so a lot of the time I just run up and down the hallway inside the apartment building. There are usually about ten of us that do that. This morning I ran in the parking garage under the apartment building while Sister Guanzon did the Tahitian dance class thing. It feels really good to exercise. We spend a lot of time sitting here at Temple Square.

The highlight of my week was taking Christian and Mario on a tour of Temple Square. They were visiting Salt Lake from Costa Rica and they were up here as journalists covering the Real Salt Lake and Costa Rica soccer game. We found out that Mario had actually already met with the missionaries in Costa Rica and had a Book of  Mormon (which apparently is green in Spanish). I guess their visits didn't result in baptism for him yet, but as we were talking to him he said that he would start reading the Book of Mormon again when he goes home. It's amazing to see how God prepares people. We took them to the Tabernacle and talked about modern day prophets and Mario said that he believed that God would call prophets today, which was neat to hear him say that he believed that. Then we took them to the Conference Center. I love taking guests to the Conference Center because it's quieter and there is a wonderful peaceful spirit in the auditorium. While we were in the auditorium (which sits 21,000, just if you were wondering), Mario said that he felt peace. I know that he was recognizing the presence of the Holy Ghost. So in the end, Mario requested a Book of Mormon for his wife and to visit with the missionaries again, and Christian (who doesn't really understand English) referred for a Book of Mormon as well! Even though, Christian didn't understand everything we were saying, I know that he felt the spirit that was in the Conference Center and wanted to learn more about it. Unfortuatly we don't get to teach them over the phones because it would be better for them to be taught in Spanish, but they were wonderful people to get to know.

One of the things that I have been focusing on this week is charity. I read in Preach My Gospel that "charity, like faith, leads to action", and also in Mosiah 28:3 it say "Now they were desirous that salvation should be declared to every creature, for they could not bear that any human soul should perish; yeah, even the very thoughts that any soul should endure endless torment did cause them to quake and tremble". As a missionary I want to develope that same kind of charity that the sons of Mosiah had. Whenever I approach my day as an opportunity to help people come unto Christ and bring true happiness in their lives, my day goes so much better.

General Conference is coming up! That means that TONS of people will be traveling through Temple Square! That also means lots more people to teach! I heard that last conference the mission goal was for every companionship to get 32 potential referrals per day. That's so many! I'm excited.