This week marks exactly the midway point of our mission. I have learned so much to this point and am sure I will increase that learning and understanding of the temple by leaps and bounds in the next six month. The time has gone by quickly and from what I hear, the rest will go by even faster. I do know that after the first of the year when the temple opens after the scheduled maintenance break, we will be extremely busy re-certifying the ordinance workers and, as always, training new workers. The last time we had to do this was right after we arrived and started in the temple. I was so nervous because I didn't want to overlook anything but hadn't been adequately trained as to what to do. I tend to like explicit instructions and there really wasn't much to go on. Now I know what I am doing so it should go quite a bit easier.
Today we attended a missionary farewell for Eric Sims. There is a family connection to Eric so we went to Millilani to attend. Eric seems to be so prepared for his mission in Vancouver WA. He has barely turned 18 and will graduate early from high school this week. He is reporting to the MTC in January. That is making the best of your time for sure. His talk was very well done as he talked of the importance of his mission and the importance of our Savior Jesus Christ.
Pete, his father, gave a great talk as well. It got me thinking about the things I need to be doing in order to live a life worthy of returning to my Heavenly Father and His Son at the end of my life. He taught us that each of us should be doing four things as well as other things crafted by each individual in order to work towards eternal salvation. These are: 1-Improve our daily prayer. 2- Improve our scripture reading and scripture study each day. 3- Improve our church attendance and preparation for taking the sacrament. 4- Improve in our temple attendance.
I feel like I really need to work on these things. The only one I have under control right now is Temple attendance. I spend over 30 hours/week in the temple. I hope that when this mission is finished that I will continue to serve several hours in the temple whether as an ordinance worker or a patron.
I am re-committing myself to the other three items on this list.
Thanks Pete Sims for your encouragement in this regard.
Now to the weather and Christmas. The weather is still 85ish and a little rain each day. Today was beautiful-a good beach day but it is Sunday so we didn't do that. However, half the people on the island were at beaches all along the north shore today. As I have said in other blogs, it will be strange to be in warmth on Christmas this year. We are going to go to a mall tomorrow or next Saturday just to get a little of the materialistic part of the Christmas spirit.
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