November 21st 2022
Miracles
We had some visitors come to see us and Nauvoo last week. Lesa and Rob Browning from our shift in the Bountiful temple came to see Nauvoo since we are here. It was great to see them and get to visit a little bit. We of course were working everyday in the temple but we got to go out to eat after and they spent their days enjoying the beauty and spirit of Nauvoo. Rob's 3rd great grandfather was John Browning of the gun shop here in Nauvoo. They participated in an endowment session and then Dave took them on a tour of the temple even up to the bell tower, which happened to be at 7 pm so they experienced the bell in a big way. We enjoyed our time with them and were happy they would make the trip.
We have three Thanksgiving events this week, so there will be plenty of social time to enjoy this holiday.
We had a tender miracle in the temple on Saturday. I work in the office with my sweet friend Emmie. She is 20 years old and is a service missionary here. Patrons come to the office with their phones to have names printed off. We just need the bar code and we can scan them and they are printed. Saturday morning we had several patrons who wanted names printed but we couldn't get the computer to communicate with the printer. It would always show a failure sign. We had to tell several people that we were so sorry but we couldn't print their names and they would be disappointed but understand. I called the SLC support system and was put on hold for nearly 30 minutes.
An elderly sister came and asked to print one name, her deceased niece. When we told her of the problem she started to weep and said "I came all the way from St Louis to take her to the temple and that's all I want to do." She wasn't sure how to get her information on her phone so Emmie took it and got it all set up and after doing so we realized that her niece needed all the ordinances, baptism, confirmation, initiatory and endowment. Fortunately, our recorder and Temple President were in the office trying to resolve the printing issue. They told her that if she was able to do the initiatory and endowment, we would make sure the baptism and confirmations were done this same day. It is preferred to do them in order but as long as they are done in the same day it works.
We had been trying all different things to get cards to print, like rebooting all the computers, putting the number in manually rather than scanning but nothing was working. Emmie took this sister's phone, said a prayer and put the number in and it printed on the backup printer! We were all thrilled and amazed! Emmie and this sister wept and hugged. We arranged for her to do the initiatory and endowment, alerting all the check points to let her pass even though the prior ordinances were not done. There are many, we check for prior ordinances at initiatory, name issue, we check again at the chapel, and then at the veil. We didn't want anyone to stop her and tell her she couldn't go on. Emmie met the sister in the celestial room and retrieved the niece's card and escorted the sisters down to the baptistry where Emmie got baptized for the niece and then the proxy Aunt was confirmed for her. Then Emmie brought the niece's name card to office and recorded it and handed it back to the Aunt. So joyful!!
I was so grateful to be a witness to this tender mercy from the Lord. Also, to be a witness of a young women's testimony being solidified of a loving, very aware Father in Heaven who sees the one and will do whatever is necessary to make things work and that she was an instrument in His hands. It is an experience I will cherish.
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