Sunday, April 20, 2008

MTC - Day 12 - April 20, 2008 - Journal Entry

I had the weirdest dream last night. Rachel, Tim and I were shopping at Target. Rachel and I had the cart and were wandering and Tim would pop up every now and then and add something to our cart. But the odd thing was that Tim had this group of families surrounding him, they were yelling and taking pictures. The whole time I'm dreaming this I've got the second lesson playing over and over like background music. Very strange.

We had a guest speaker for RS, she talked on Repentance and I got several excellent scriptures I can use for Lesson Two. For Sacrament Meeting we all prepared a 5 minute talk and the randomly called two people to talk when the meeting opens. During the passing of the sacrament Sis Hartman leans over and whispers, "As soon as this is over I need to go to the restroom". The Elders go to sit down and we pop out of our seats to make a dash to the restroom and we hear "Sister Hartman where are you running off to? We have you speaking today". Well we promised to be right back and Sister Hartman gave an excellent talk. Our Second Counselor took up the rest of the time, I struggled to stay awake - he was talking about the Great Apostasy. What he had to say was interesting, but he wasn't able to present it in a way that was interesting - no DaVinci Code talk!

We watched the Joseph Smith movie that is currently playing at the visitors center - it was incredible! The power, the suffering, the faith and awesomeness of our prophet! For those reading this, if you have not seen it, I say unto you - get thee to the visitors center!

If felt the power of Joseph when in jail he commanded in the name of our Savior to "cease their evil speaking" and then turning to the men imprisoned with him and telling them that all men are loved by the Savior and Father. It makes days like yesterday not only easy, but totally worth it. Our purpose is to bring people to Christ and He loves us all.

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