This week started out doing sealings at the Bountiful temple with our social group from the MTC. It was a fun hour of service.
The week has been a week of learning our new responsibilities. Friday morning we had the opportunity of going to the Going Forth Meeting and receive three new missionaries for our zone. They all had Chinese back ground, two from China and one served a mission in Taiwan many years ago and the married a sister from there. We are so happy to welcome them to B1 in the Family History Library. They will be wonderful as we have many tour buses from China stop and visit the library at lease during the summer months.
We arrived at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building for the Going Forth Meeting early. Elder Koberstein enjoyed the beautiful morning watching people and I walked in the gardens.
This beautiful life size statue of a mother and son is between the temple and the Joseph Smith Memorial building.
After the reflecting pool at the temple are two smaller statues, one of Joseph Smith and
his counter part is Brigham Young. They are on each side of the reflecting pool and are small, Maybe about 36 inches tall.
A view of the Salt Lake Temple from the gardens.
The next life size statue is a mother dancing/playing with children.
The last statue I found in the garden was the prophet Joseph Smith and Emma.
Friday evening there was a Pioneer Fair put on by the Church History Museum. We were going to the Pioneer Concert so walked through the fair for a few minutes enjoying the exhibits there.
We watched the black smith for a few minutes busy at work.
We enjoyed watching a gold coin(brass) being made using the same type of equipment used in 1849 to make gold coins from gold brought back from California. The abbreviation "G.S.L.C.P.G. stands for "Great Salt Lake City Pure Gold". The coins were made of a low quality of gold and were sold for 75% of their value outside the Mormon area. Most were melted down.
This replica of the coin is sold at the Family History Library for $2.
After the fair we walked over to the Conference Center for the Pioneer Concert "Music For a Summer Evening".
The concert featured Matthew Morrison and Laura Michelle Kelly performing the songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II with insight and narration provided by Oscar "Andy" Hammerstein III, grandson of the famed lyricist with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra. We listened to music from "State Fair", Oklahoma!", ""Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music". The evening was a real treat.
Saturday we had the opportunity to visit Nita Harris in Saratoga Springs before we attended a zone leader barbecue in the evening.
Had an opportunity to get to know zone leaders in our part of the mission and enjoyed a wonderful barbecue of chicken and pork.
THOUGHT FOR YOU
However late you think you are,
However many chances you think you have missed,
However many mistakes you feel you have made
Or talents you think you don't have,
Or however far from home and family and God
You feel you have traveled,
I testify that you have not traveled
Beyond the reach of divine love.
-Jeffrey R. Holland
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