We get to go to the Temple!

Jake emailed today and said, "I'm so excited for the temple this week. This is a rare occasion as you can probably imagine, because we don't have a temple in our mission, so i am definately looking forward to it. President (Elder) Pearson got back from salt lake on wednesday and because my senior companions are zone leaders, we were able to hear a little from him in the weekly conference call that the zone leaders participate in each week (for numbers purposes). anyway he didn't say anything about his new calling the entire phone call, until the end when he mentioned how he was excited about going to the temple with us this week, and he said before we do a session he is going to share with us his experience that he had last week(meeting with the bretheren and all) and he's going to tell us about the change in his life since he heard about the call back in January. He then bore his testimony over the phone, and said that he KNOWS, without a doubt that this church is true, and he knows that the authority, and those priesthood keys that the Bretheren hold, has been restored to the earth, and he knows the men that have them. I wish you all could have heard it, it's one thing hearing a testimony like that over the pulpet at General Conference, but to hear it from someone you know personally in that kind of setting was something else, i wish i could express how it felt in words. I can't wait to be in the temple with that man, and hear about his experience...wow."

He stressed once again what we can do as members to help with the missionary effort "Again Members play a huge role in missionary work. One of the girls we are teaching is the friend of a couple who are both recent converts (the husband is david scott who we baptised last month). The only reason this girl knows about this church is because of the scott family. Us as missionaries have hardly done any work at all, and she is probably going to get baptised in a couple weeks. People are alot less likely to come to church if they don't know anyone."

He added "ps. our new president is president bowen. he's been a proffessor at harvard and M.I.T. if that gives you any indication of what kind of president he will be