Elders In My Home

How cool is General Conference!  Okay, so how did you love Elder Holland's talk this conference?  Last October, he "got in your face" and wanted to feel as though you had your eyebrows singed.  So now, just when you thought those eyebrows would never grow back, he gives this awesome talk on how there is no darkness so deep that the shining light of the atonement cannot penetrate.  I think we look better with eyebrows.  Thank you Elder Holland for such inspired words.  And what's up with Elder Uchtdorf not using the aviation references?  I still loved his message.

Last week the missionaries came up to report on their week they found a nerf gun that one of my nephews had left on the couch.  We couldn't figure out how to reload it, so I called my nephew to ask how and he said I'll be right down.  He only lives about 5 houses down from me, but in the time it took for my nephews to get here the missionaries had figured out how to load the gun and they were waiting in ambush for my nephews.  Pretty soon, I hear screaming and then nerf darts were flying all over the house.  It only lasted about a half hour, but it was pretty crazy while the war was waging.  I loved it! 

This Wednesday is transfer day and rumor has it that there are about 18 new missionaries arriving and about 17 missionaries waiting for visas.  That means that there is little chance that we will get to keep these three elders for another transfer.  I will be pretty sad to see one of them leave.

"Cute" story for the week.  I picked the elders up from the stake center last Wednesday and we had a few minutes wait for a report from the stake clerk.  Elder W and Elder M like to tease, so they were talking back and forth and Elder M said, it would be hard once he got his visa because then Elder W and Elder T would have to walk again.  Teasing them that they wouldn't be able to baptize anymore.  Elder W was quick with a comeback.  He said that they were baptizing during the month and a half they had no car.  Then he said "Besides, Jesus baptized and he didn't have a car."  Yes, I am going to miss these guys!

Friday I got a call from the Stake President inviting me to do a sealing session at the Temple with him.  It was a wonderful experience.  There was couple who joined our group towards the end of our time.  The wife in this couple was in a wheelchair and it appeared to me that she had had some kind of brain injury.  She had great difficulty controlling her body, but that didn't stop her from participating in the blessings of the Temple.  As she was kneeling at the alter the sealer was touched by the spirit and we a got a bit emotional.  You might see this woman at the shopping center or other place out in public and think, oh, that poor woman, she can't do anything she is so unfortunate.  But, in the Temple this broken body is doing something wonderful.  She was part of something wonderful.  She was helping to seal a family together in that "broken" body of hers.  The woman she was acting for was truly blessed and could not do it on her own, so there was nothing broken about this beautiful woman kneeling at the altar.