Suva, Fiji
91st operating temple
Dedicated: 18 June 2000
By: Gordon B. Hinckley
Book of Mormon
Alma 2:1-18
Come Follow Me
"Follow Him"
April General Conference
'Participate to Prepare for Christ's Return'
Elder Steven D. Shumway
"President Nelson said in general conference: 'Now is the time for you and for me to prepare for the Second Coming of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ.' When President Nelson said this, the Spirit taught me that as we participate in God's work, we prepare ourselves and others for Christ's return. The Lord's promise is compelling that callings, ministering, temple worship, following promptings, and other ways we embark in God's work uniquely prepare us to meet the Savior."
We attended the Galveston 3rd ward with Sheri this morning. This is the ward where all of the Chandler Lambson's attend: Sheri, although her last name is Trezise, she is a Lambson, Cathi & Terry, Dave & Laura (although Dave & Laura aren't here this week, they are in Idaho attending Jonathan's daughter Lexi's graduation), Erik & Amelia and their kids, and Kristophor and Kristine and their kids. Well I guess there are more Lambson's in Chandler, Stacy and Kim, but they are in the other stake. They are in the same ward.
Evan didn't go with us today. He went to Joshua's ward where one of their friends, Austin, was having his mission farewell.
We also stayed for the gospel doctrine class. The lesson was on spiritual gifts and was taught by a Sister Webb. We said hello to some of our Chandler friends: Jackie Hall, Lynda Cull, Laurie Jensen, Paula Casto, Erik, Cathi & Terry and the Jiminez's.
We said goodbye to Sheri and headed back to Stacy's for our Sunday naps. Sheri invited us to dinner at 5 at her house. Sheri is a sweetie. She brought me two DPZ's and some blueberry muffins.
Stacy, Paul, and Joshua's ward meets at 10:30 so they weren't home when we got there. We had a light lunch and then went upstairs to take naps. We slept most of the afternoon. When we woke up we listened to a couple of conference talks and then we packed up to go home because we aren't coming back here after seminary graduation, and left around 4:30 to go to Sheri's for dinner. We never got to see Stacy. I think she worked this afternoon because she had yesterday off. Joshua was somewhere with Alayna but we talked to Paul a little bit before we left, thanking him for letting us stay. He said, "Any time." We talked to Paul a little bit about Joshua and his future plans. Joshua wants to go to school at NAU because that is where Alayna is going. Paul tried to sit down and talk to him about how expensive that was going to be and even gave him some numbers and then tried to encourage him to stay home and go to school here. I guess that didn't sound too exciting to Joshua. Paul has talked about Joshua getting the Melchizedek priesthood and going to the temple and Joshua has agreed that he would do that.
James told Joshua he was concerned that he wasn't going to go on a mission and Joshua said, "You have a right to be concerned grampa because I don't think I am going." James then talked to him and encouraged him some more. We shall see.
Sheri had pulled pork and rolls for dinner and it was delicious. Max came home from work to eat so we got to see him before going to seminary graduation with Sheri and Evan. We actually drove separate cars because we are going home afterwards.
We saw our Chandler friends the Luke's and the Lueck's at the graduation and the Finlinson's. There were only 12 graduates from the entire stake. I enjoyed the stake president's talk. His name is President Shkaphch and is from the Ukraine. He said that our success in life is more determined by our habits than it is our goals.
Evan said the closing prayer and it was a sweet, thoughtful prayer. Cayli and Ben came to support Evan and we took pictures afterwards. Why didn't we get one of Sheri?
"shrinky dinks."
We left for home going the Payson way at my request. We were home by 11, almost exactly three hours later. Tom was so happy to see us, he went running through the house.
Elder Soares dedicated the temple in Nairobi, Kenya today, #203.
No comments:
Post a Comment