Today is our last day at the Provo, Missionary Training Center.  We have had an incredibly enlightening experience that has touched our hearts deeply.  We have met many other wonderful couples called to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. There are seventy couples in our large group preparing to serve in seventeen different countries.  We have made wonderful friendships.  As we each part ways today we will each be "inviting others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end." There is a hastening of the work.

We were divided into district groups of six couples where we learned a great deal of how good these people really are.

Our District
Left to right: The Hart's, Petersen's, Sanders, Sister McAdams, Lee's, and Daly's

We each taught non member/ less active people from the community.  These were wonderful people who had life stories that touched my heart.  I was very apprehensive and a lot scared.  I was amazed how the Lord blessed our lessons and we felt His guidance as we taught.  When I read Alma 14 my heart was broken and the tears softly fell.  The scriptures have always been dear to my heart but when I read this story I gain a deep assurance that God lets these things happen to bring about his righteous judgments.
  
Yesterday, (Monday the 17th) we met at the Salt Lake Temple Visitors' Center to have the young Sister Missionaries give us a tour of the center.  I don't believe I have ever seen the display on the "Family."  It was very tender; in fact, the whole tour was.  These two sisters, one from Thailand and the other from Japan, were able to convey the Spirit of the Lord.  My heart is full to bursting,  I wish I could have everyone I meet have these sweet feelings and know that God is in the Heaven and Jesus Christ is our Savior.  I love them with all my heart. Susan

Sister from Thailand, Susan, Sister from Japan, Roger

Susan asked me (Roger) to tell this story from Monday.  As we were finishing our tour of the Salt Lake Visitors' Center.  A young man came up to our small group.  The sisters immediately knew him.  He was a recent convert to the Church.  He was very bright. His father was Jewish and his mother a Catholic.  He had studied carefully both cultures.  In his studies he found that the Jewish scriptures talk of a Messiah who has already come.  He talked to the Rabbis and showed them the scriptures.  They told him not to come back.  He went to the Catholic priests and read with them for a while, but here he found scriptures that said the priests should be married.  He told them so.  And they asked him not to come back.

He then began to travel across the the United States looking for answers.  He came to his mother's house.  On TV he saw an add for a free Book of Mormon.  He sent for it, and when it came he read it from cover to cover.  He noticed the many Hebraisms in the text, and he read it with great interest.  When he came to Moroni 10 he actually prayed about the truth of the book.  He received a powerful answer.  So, he called the Call Center at Temple Square.  A wonderful sister began talking to him.  By this time he had come to Salt Lake City.  He was sitting on the reflecting pool at Temple Square and he was talking to this sister.  He didn't know where she was located.  He thought she might have been answering his call from a foreign country because she was a foreign missionary.

He finally said to her, "Where are you speaking from?"  She answered, "I'm in Salt Lake City."  They were only 100 yards apart. She immediately came out of the Call Center and met him for the first time.  To make a long story short, he was baptized on 26 August of this year.  And he just received the Aaronic Priesthood last week.  To hear his story was truly an inspiration.