Hey there! I know it's only been 4 days since I last sent
out an email, so I don't have much to report on, therefore I'll keep it
short.
Between Monday and now we had our zone conference and we've
been busy with Moses' Tabernacle in Chino Hills. So far I've been able to see a
lot of the Walnut Park ward members in Chino that I was really close with! It
was so good to see them again! There has been a really good turnout to the
event; a local news channel even came over and filmed the event and did a
report on it.
Zone conference was great, we all left that meeting having
learned something new I think. We were combined with the Chino zone, so I got
to see a few elders serving in that zone that were in the same MTC group as I.
The Ontario stake president and his wife were guest speakers at our conference,
and President and Sister Taylor gave some wonderful counsel. Our conference
focused a lot on improving our companionship studies, helping our investigators
understand and seek revelation through prayer, and the standards of the
Missionary Handbook by always being wise and mature in our conduct. We have
good missionaries in the Upland Zone.
We had our temple trip today at the Redlands temple for all
the elders in our zone, so our P-Day was moved from this upcoming Monday to
today. Hence the reason for me writing this. It feels like it has been an
eternity since I last went to the temple. Once I entered the temple, changed
clothes, and sat down in preparation for the endowment session, it was as if
all the thoughts and worries that were on my mind were gone! I love being in
the house of the Lord, where there is so much peace, where we can go to seek
revelation and answers to questions that we have, where we can be strengthened
against our temptations, and where we can set aside the things of the outside
world and enter to feel the Spirit and serve as proxies to those who have
passed on from this life. I know that all of us can be able to experience these
same blessings as we attend the temple.
Well, that about sums up our week so far. I won't be
emailing next week since we don't have a P-Day then. I hope you all are doing
well, know that my thoughts and prayers are with you!
Love,
Elder Ruiz
Elder Hirst and I in
front of the Redlands Temple this afternoon.
Us on tour guide duty
for Moses' Tabernacle this week.
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