Week 51 - Temples and Pitbulls

Hello! Wow it has been crazy here the past weeks. Transfers are this week and Sister Gomez and I are staying together!!! We are so happy. I really didn't feel like either of us were ready to leave yet and I guess the Lord thought the same. It just means that there is more to learn and more people to love here in Hermiston. This week was so spiritual and uplifting and emotional. It was also crazy cause we almost got attacked by a giant pitbull. But more on that in a minute. 

Temples played a big part in our week. Sister Gomez and I were impressed to study about the temple and we were so glad that we did. The week started off with an amazing lesson with Linda about temples. You could see the peace enter her heart as we talked to her about eternal families. She lost her husband about 10 years back and she was overcome with joy when we told her she could be with her family forever. The next day we were able to talk to our friend Jacky who has been working on returning to church. We talked to her about family history and it tied in perfectly to what we had been talking about the day before. The NEXT day we went to a members house for dinner and the topic of returning to the temple came up again. The spirit testified to me over and over again about the importance of the temple. A day later we talked to another member, Joy. She has ALS but we love going over to visit with her an feel of the spirit. She told us the one thing that she wished she could do was go to the temple. I know that the temple is the house of the Lord. Temples are a gift from our father in Heaven and we can go there to truly be close to Him. 

On another note...weve got a funny story. So sister Gomez and I were going to try by a potential investigator named Chris. Chris has a super scary super big pitbull that he keeps chained up in front of their yard. We pull up to the yard and there he is. Just waiting for us. We get out and slowly start walking around to the side of the house. The dog starts growling ferociously and pawing at the ground. We suck it up and knock at the door. The guy says hes busy and immediately the dog starts freaking out. It sounds like the chain breaks and Sister Gomez runs to the car and im just stuck there...frozen with fear. She calls my name and we run to the car looking ridiculous, hopping over these rocks in our skirts with our giant purses. We got the heck out of there and after freaking out for a minute we were laughing. It made for funny stories at dinner this week. 

Sorry if my writing is all over the place this week... There is so much to say and so little time! I love you all and I hope you have a great week. 

Love, 

Sister Madeline Whetten