Paul and Mar Jean Lewis: February 16

Have been coming into the temple for the last couple of weeks on Thursday morning where we have been coordinating the baptistry. It has been very fun. Today Sister Malan and Savage came in right at 9 am. Sister Savage forgot her recommend. President looked her up and got her in. The Sisters had found a family name and were so excited to bring these people to the temple. So happy we could help them. The Hughes boys came over to assist and the Bramwell YSA who is here for a few months is also coming every Thursday to help in the baptistry. It's a wonderful extra assignment.
Came home and will go back at 2 for our shift.

Thursday evening we were able to help with a sealing of two older siblings to their parents. Brother Anderson did the sealing and it was really wonderful. They also had several other family names to do and toward the end Bro. Anderson invited me to come into the room with them. What a special opportunity. I spent the rest of the evening in the laundry with Zina, whom I love very much. What an example of a daughter of God. She so willingly gives of herself to further the work in the temple by taking care of all the laundry, of which the temple would not operate without what she does.

In my reading today I came across this article by Elder Rasband on the call of missionaries. It's nice to be reminded that the Lord knows and loves each one of us.

"At the end of the meeting Elder Eyring bore his witness to me of the love of the Savior, which He has for each missionary assigned to go out into the world and preach the restored gospel. He said that it is by the great love of the Savior that His servants know where these wonderful young men and women, senior missionaries, and senior couple missionaries are to serve. I had a further witness that morning that every missionary called in this Church, and assigned or reassigned to a particular mission, is called by revelation from the Lord God Almighty through one of these, His servants."

February flew by. One Monday we went down and helped at the Visitor Center while Elder Seabring was recouperating from eye surgery. It is always fun to serve with the young sisters and get to know them better. We have been trying to help them out by taking some snacks down to the teaching center for them. They seem to appreicate it very much. Some of them brought us a sweet note of thanks.

The weather has been pretty strange this month. All the natives think it has been the coldest they can remember for a long time. A few nights were in the high 50's which is very cold for here. It is starting to warm up again and we still have rain on and off.

Sunday March 3rd we left home at 6:50 am and headed for Waipui for church. We were able to go to four Wards, all in the same bldg. The first was Tongan, they had translators for us, then Samoan, no translators, then Marshalese and finally English. We saw many people we knew from the temple, either workers or patrons who come often. What a blessing. It was a fun day. Upon returning home we went to Break the Fast with the other senior missionaries. We picked up Elder and Sister Peterson, friends of Gary and Diane's from Ivans. They are settling in but are tired. They are serving at BYUH in Leadership and usually have a 8-5 hour day.