Every Member a Missionary

"You will not convert everyone in your lifetime, but every missionary has a duty to make someones life better. You may not bring them into the gospel, but you can make thier lives BETTER somehow, someway!" -Conference October 2010


This week... Huston and i were able to have the coolest experience. Ill start by telling you a little bit of background. Our ward had 2 goals with the upcoming opening of the Laie temple. Those two goals were to find at least 4 family names to do the work for, and to invite someone who is less active or a non-member to see the Temple open house. Who in this small town of Laie, is not a member? pretty much... NO ONE!.. I wont lie, it is very much a small mormon town with the BYU and the Temple

. .. Anyways.. i have a few co workers i had worked up enough courage to invite, and i posted the flyers at work also in case anyone wanted to go, because i actually work with quite a few non-members..and i had NO luck. NONE. i asked 2 co workers to go, and no one was interested. One co worker in particular, i asked about 5 times, and every time, the answer ended up being no. . So i started thinking to myself.. Who will want to come see the inside of this beautiful place? because it really is not often that the temple is open to the public.

I have a good friend from HS that moved here with her husband(ARMY) a few months ago. and i thought.. hmm.. ill try. but at this point with no luck, im not feeling too positive about it. but hey what the heck ill go for it anyways... So i emailed her a nice note asking her to come over to our side of town to see the temple. Much to my suprise her response was, "WE WOULD LOVE TO COME!"

so, we set up a date and time, and sure enough.. they came to see the open house. and...they had soo many questions, and were so open minded and really loved the temple.We were able to talk with them about the church and clear up alot of thier weird assumptions, and after it was clear..you could tell they were thinking.. "o, mormons arent so bad after all;)" My heart is so full. and i am so grateful for that experience. Thank you HF for not letting me give up. and for blessing us with this experience.

**on a side note, the "F" word is said alot in my friends husbands language, and the whole night we were hanging out with them, the word FREAKING came out of his mouth instead, and it made us feel good and respected.

BE AN EXAMPLE of the BELIEVERS in CHRIST! and remember EVERY MEMBER A MISSIONARY!