One Week In the St. George Temple Visitors' Center Mission

Last Thursday we arrived at our mission site.  We have deluxe accommodations due to the fact that we own a house down here in St. George.  It helped with the initial adjustment to mission life.  Life as a missionary is life in the fast lane.  Things are always going on.  In addition to our assignments at the different historic sites, we have attended one welcome and goodbye party, two firesides, one talk by Susan Easton Black on Joseph F. Smith, one Monday night dinner with the senior missionaries, an early weekly meeting with training, and experienced one snow storm.  We have had a week of training at each of the sites with different missionary couples.  One of the couples, the Dooleys,  is from Soda Springs, Idaho and knows my Aunt Faun and worked with Lorraine (her daughter) in the YW.

Sister and Elder Burt in front of the St. George Temple in the snow.

 The next morning we had a beautiful day.  I had a chance to walk in Snow Canyon and up our sandstone hill we always climb with the grandkids.  There was water in the indentations of the rock.

This a view of the golf course from our back deck.  Ready for Beeg, Neal, Tony,  and Josh.

 

 Snow Canyon with pools of water.

Our awesome sunset from the back deck.


At the Brigham Young Home about a month ago, relatives of Hyrum Smith identified and showed verification that the chair pictured below was made by Hyrum Smith.  We think it might get moved to SLC or somewhere else because of that.

Brigham Young Home with pink blossoms.

Most of the cherry blossoms and white flowering trees are just about finished blooming already.

Today at the tabernacle, I gave out my first Book of Mormon to a non-member.  It was pretty exciting!  Then later, when I told another group about the windows being paid for by Peter Nielsen, they got tears in their eyes.  Most of the missionaries like the tabernacle the best because of the nice spirit that is there and the feelings people get.  Although, today one of the missionaries told Scott that the roadrunners hang out on the hill behind the Jacob Hamblin house when the weather gets warmer.

It was fun to get our first letter from Amy, Em, Will, and Brock.

Today we were assigned extra duties.  I and two others are to take pictures and send them into the church for our St. George Temple Visitors's Center Facebook page for a weekly post.  Scott is to work with the community in promoting awareness and visiting to the visitors' center.  So far, so good!