September 21st 2022
These last few weeks have been busy and full of joyful tears. All but 7 temple couple missionaries will be leaving this Saturday when the temple closes for 4 weeks. Some have been here for 2 years because they started then stopped because of covid. others have been here just for the summer to help with the busy time in Nauvoo. All of them we love dearly and will miss them.
We had a very fun gathering last week with all missionaries in Nauvoo. Site, FM, temple, and Performing missionaries. It was a great time.
I woke up one morning with all of them on my mind and decided to leave a note for them, so I wrote this and put it in their cubbies.
To ALL you dear temple workers, September 15th
2022
We have experienced a taste of heaven with you here! Even if we haven’t had
an opportunity to know each of you better, we are not strangers. Just seeing
you here, we know you. We know your heart and desire to be a true follower
of Jesus Christ and to work tirelessly for His cause.
The temple is unique above all other places in that everyone who enters has
made the same covenants and promises we both have made. That connects us
immediately for eternity!
Each one of you has strengths, beauty, talents, and gifts that when those are
combined creates a most powerful force for goodness and love. There is
nothing we could not accomplish together!
We will experience what the early Nauvoo saints experienced with seeing
loved ones leave or stay and long to be associated with them forever. We have
been promised that will happen!
We love each of you deeply and thank you so very much for this heavenly
experience!
David and April Weeks
"Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof." Eccles. 7:8
Often as we drive up to the temple both Dave and I sit in awe that we are here. It truly is such a special place and when you are here, you feel it.
My musings today have to do with the "Come Follow Me" program. I am so grateful for that divine instruction by our Prophets. I am 64 years old and have never read the Old Testament with any success but with this program and the podcasts that are available I have been able to really enjoy and actually "thrill" with the things that are being revealed to me! Psalms, Proverbs, even Isaiah! My awareness of my loving, mighty, powerful Father in Heaven and of my beautiful, faithful, merciful Savior has grown so much! I feel to PRAISE and love them with my whole heart!
Emotionally and physically I am weary but feel it a great pleasure and honor to continue to give it my all! The minute I walk through those temple doors I am infused with energy and a deep love for every face I see. It is pretty amazing. Then after our 7 hour shift we get home and I can hardly move for the fatigue. Then we get up and do it all over again the next day. I do not doubt we are being sustained by heavenly power.
"Even to your old age I AM he: and I will carry you: I have made, and I will bear: even I will carry, and will deliver you." Isaiah 46:4
I work with a delightful young woman named Emmie in the office on Mondays and Saturdays. We have become very tender friends. She has one of the purest hearts I have ever known. We laugh a lot together and share sweet things. She has all kinds of animals that she cares for and loves deeply. She sent me this story that I wanted to keep as a memory of her.
So yesterday my mom, little brother and I came home to one of our quail missing we found it across the road by the river. And I waited for it and tried to catch it for two hours. And I had no luck. And what made me tear up is when our other quail started calling for the missing quail. The Quail knew that one of their buddies were missing and they kept calling for the missing quail to come back. And that night I prayed that the quail that escaped will be safe and will find her way back to our house to her friends. And this morning at 6:00am my mom and I heard some happy quail noises and so my mom went outside and the quail was in front of our house and then I went out and we caught the quail and put it back with the other quail. And I cried even more when I saw them surrounding the one that was missing. Quail have a sweet personality. And Jesus Christ is the God of Miracles!❤️
Being on a mission gives you unlimited opportunities to stretch and grow, feel strong emotions and serve with all your heart. It is a powerful tool for our Heavenly Father to help us become more like Him and our Savior. Plus, work for the cause of Jesus! That is really the only thing that matters because it encompasses everything and everyone.
This is the cause of Jesus to make known:
"I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Put me in remembrance:" Isaiah 43: 25
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