Road Runner Review: Three Months Left to Serve

It's hard to believe that we only have three more months down here to serve in the St. George Utah Visitors' Center Mission. With all that is happening around here, it will go by fast! October and November have been filled with exceptionally fun people who have participated at the St. George Tabernacle or at the visitors' center. Scott was instrumental in getting some of these special guests, and I have been the photographer to capture the moments. It's been great.

Jon Schmidt of the world famous "The Piano Guys" came and spoke and played in the tabernacle as part of our "Why I Believe" music and lecture series. He was awesome. We had people waiting outside to get in an hour or more early. We set up extra chairs downstairs and up and stationed missionaries in different sections of the tabernacle to help with crowd control. We had over a thousand people come, and I don't know how many couldn't get in. Jon said good things and told how his mission president helped him decide to try music as a way to earn money. He told of the spiritual influence his older sister had on him as a young man and helped him gain a testimony of Jesus Christ. The next morning he came and talked to the young sister missionaries at the visitors' center as they couldn't attend at the tabernacle. He was cute with them and of course played one song laying down on the piano bench. He told how is own daughter was blessed by going on a mission.

Last week David Archuleta surprised the St. George missionaries at a zone conference by speaking and singing to them for an hour. Only the leadership knew he was coming, so it was pretty fun to see him walk into the meeting and see the response of the audience. Prior to the meeting, he came to the visitors' center to meet Elder and Sis. Cleverly and have photos taken with him. He is cute and has sparkling eyes. He was down here to do some concerts at Tuachan. The Church leaders have asked him to talk to missionaries when he travels as a church job. He did an outstanding job of talking to the group and touched on a lot of things missionaries could really relate to. He told some of his experiences on his mission in Chile. Also, he talked a little about his mother's conversion to the Church. When she was investigating, she finally decided to attend sacrament meeting with the elders on Sunday. That Saturday night before, she had a dream and heard angels singing. The next day at church during the singing of one of the hymns, she starting crying. The missionaries thought, oh no, we bring our investigator to church and she's upset and crying. It turned out that the hymn was the same song she heard in her dream the night before, "Come, Come Ye Saints". So David sang that song for us in English and Spanish. The other song he sang was "I Believe in Christ". It was great. Then we took a group photo outside with the temple in the background.