Helloooooo one and all! :)
Obviously I love all of you and wish you the best in all of your endeavours! I
know that is spelled wrong but I'm going to leave it there...right clicking is
just so much work...
SO
first things first
obviously..............................................................................THIS
WEEK WAS THE GROUND BREAKING FOR THE ONE AND ONLY DURBAN TEMPLE!!!!! Okay
sooooo the grounds for the temple is just SUCH a beautiful spot!! It's on a
hill just looking over this huuuuge valley and it's right next to all of these
beautiful neighborhoods with gorgeous houses but they are going to all be put
to shame when The temple is done! The temple is going to look PERFECT!
Obviously. All temples are just perfect. Inside and out. <3
So
we had the Africa South East Area Presidency all there and Carl B.
Cook was the one presiding and he was the one who offered the Prayer and it was
just perfect! A lot of the speakers talked about how the temple was going to
take 3 years to be built and worked on and how those three years were a time
for all of us to work on ourselves and be completely ready to enter into the
holy temple when it's completed. It was just soooo beautiful and the whole
place was sooo packed and you could just feel such an amazing spirit there!!
All of these members have had to sacrifice soooo much if they wanted to go to
the temple! They would have to pay sooo much to get a bus to the Johannesburg
Temple and then take a looonnng ride to get there and everything but now it's
RIGHT THERE!!! It's so exciting and humbling! Utahns! Don't take all of those
temples right next to you for granted! You can drive for 20 minutes in any
direction and you'll see one so take advantage of that amazing oppourtunity!!!
And I'm sooooo grateful for the oppourtunity that I was able to be there and
witness such a historic event. I'll never forget it for the rest of my
life!
I
brought a little bottle and scooped up some of the dirt so now I will have the
temple dirt forever! hahaha people thought that was pretty clever;)
uuummmmm
in other news, every single elder on this entire continent has the flu right
now and somehow I'm the black sheep and don't have it yet sooooo fingers
crossed, knock on wood, all that jaz.
Annnnd
it's the last week of the transfer!! Maybe my last week With Elder Frederick I
don't know! But I've had such an amazing time with him and he's taught me so
much. We've been working hard hard hard and it's just been amazing! Next week
i'll give you all the deets on what's happening!
Also
we played tennis again all day today and it was AMAZING!
Love
you all!! Don't worry so much, just stop, relax, take a deep breath, think of a
platipus or something funny looking like that, and continue! Don't forget to
laugh and smile AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!!! We aren't even humans if we don't laugh
we are just robots! ;)
Love
you all!!! Stay sweet, stay safe, and stay swell!
Elder Eastmond!
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