Purpose of Tabernacle Choir & a Prophet’s Inspiration

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Posted: 9 February, 2015

How’s the weather there? It’s balmy (58°F as I write) here! It’s nice to hang out on the surface of Temple Square. As much as I enjoy the tunnels, I’m enjoying the fresh air just as much! My diet could not be more than grateful for this gorgeous spring-like weather. As a matter of fact I’ve now lost almost 80 pounds and I’m starting to notice the difference. My pants are really hard to get on, they keep falling down! I guess that’s a good problem to have though.

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How Firm a Foundation

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Posted: 9 February, 2015

This week has been yet another slow week here on my mission. I started off the week by giving a talk in Sacrament meeting and turning right around to give a spiritual thought at prayer meeting at the Global Service Center (GSC) the next day. I’ll write more about that in a minute.

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Seven Temples in Seven Days

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Posted: 30 January, 2015

These seven temples I’ve seen in the past week. The temples with asterisks are the temples I’ll be going to while the Salt Lake Temple is closed. Not included in the list is Provo, but I’ll be going there as well.
  1. Jordan River*
  2. Oquirrh Mountain
  3. Draper
  4. Salt Lake City
  5. Bountiful
  6. Ogden
  7. Brigham City

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Chocolate from the Prophet

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Posted: 19 January, 2015

As you can see from the subject line, it’s safe to say I’ve been really spoiled this week.

This week started off like any other with the first broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word back in the Tabernacle. It was nice to be back “home.”

The work continues at the Global Service Center, we are currently ticketing for BYU Winterfest and Meet the Mormons (a movie shown in theatres around the country in the past 6 months). Everything else there’s not much to report on.

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The Lord knows His people

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Posted: 10 January, 2015

I hope your holidays have been wonderful for you and that your upcoming busy season won’t be too stressful.

These past few weeks as most of the missionaries have had a break, I’ve been filling in at the front desk at the Global Service Center. It’s been nice to meet more people who work in the building and how a simple task such as a receptionist for the church helps to build the kingdom of God on the earth.

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Meet the Mormons (the movie)

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Posted: 1 January, 2015

Happy New Years, Mom and Dad!

I know we haven’t celebrated New Years that much before, and I’m certainly not starting this year.

Being on a diet and all I’m so grateful that this holiday season is over. On Christmas Day I went to Karl’s brother’s house for a brunch. I’m glad it was so filling because I ate my daily amount of calories in one meal. After the meal and opening of some presents (I got two boxes of cereal), we went down to Holladay to see “Meet the Mormons.” It is such a great movie and is so inspiring. After I got home from the movie, I took a two hour long walk. I’m glad I took that walk because I lost another pound, bringing me down to 290 pounds!

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Prayer for Santa to come was answered

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Posted: 27 December, 2014

Merry Christmas Mom and Dad (rec’d 12/20)

I’m so glad all my parties are done for this holiday season, it makes dieting hard. On the bright side, I lost 10 pounds this month, so I must be doing something right.

This past week I’ve filled in a few times at the front desk which is a good thing so I know what I’m doing next week. Ticketing is slowing down right as there are not many events going on right now. It will pick up a little bit in March through May with conference and the Payson Utah Temple open house and will die off again after that. Reconciliation is steadily progressing.

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Christmas is in the air!

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Posted: 7 December, 2014

Christmas is in the air here in Salt Lake City. I’ve had 2 Christmas parties so far. One party was held yesterday in Layton for the Tuesday evening shift of hosts for the Conference Center. This morning was a party for the afternoon ward (congregation) that meets in the same building that my records are in.

I had an interesting experience this Tuesday when I was at the Conference Center. I gave a tour to a couple, I didn’t think much of them at first, but that soon changed. When I offered to take them up to the roof, he jumped at the opportunity. When we got to the edge of the roof to see the lights, he got down on one knee and proposed. It’s nice to be able to give some more tours this month.

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Thanksgiving with the Ellsworth’s

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Posted: 2 December, 2014

It’s been a lovely week here in Salt Lake City. It was delightful to see the Ellsworth’s again and to spend time with them for Thanksgiving (we knew the family from church when they lived in Appleton years ago—they reached out to Allen via Facebook and invited him).

It’s been a fairly uneventful week at the Global Service Center as we haven’t been receiving many phone calls for ticketing and people are beginning to be consumed by the holiday rush. I have been able to track down some lost checks but getting in contact with leaders the past few weeks have been challenging likely because of the previously mentioned reason.

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Men of the Choir

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Posted: 23 November, 2014

Not much has changed about the global service center mission, except that I’m particularly excited about the Christmas social that will happen next month that the Church is providing to all of the missionaries and employees in the building. It will have a devotional with the Presiding Bishopric with a buffet afterwards. The following Tuesday will be a devotional for the Church building hosting missionaries with Richard Hinkley, an Emeritus member of the Seventy.

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