Temple Week

So! the temple.

It was great!  Really, the Los Angeles temple is the 2nd largest temple in the world (Salt Lake is the biggest) and....yes. I can attest to that. It felt ginourmous on the inside!

I felt like I hadn't been to the temple in forever and so it was really, really nice to go. I wanted to stay in there all day long and do everything that I could, but we just didn’t have the time. I'm definitely going to try and go once a week when I get back home. And by then there may be a 2nd temple in Provo! How, crazy is that, huh?

In the temple I got to have some spiritual 'me time' which I feel like I don't get to much here, on the mission. Yes, you learn and grow personally, but almost all of your focus is on other people it was nice to just sit and only think about me and my relationship with God.  Being in the temple for just a few short hours seems to like, recharge my batteries and made me super peaceful all at the same time. I just want to take everyone with me there after the mission! It's so cool! and huge! and beautiful! We went to the 8:30 session and it was just my zone. Sister Fonokalafi and I are the only sisters so thank goodness there were 5 other ladies in the session so we didn't feel so lonely. On the men's side, it was just all Elders, plus maybe 2 other men. But it was really nice. Like I said, I could have stayed in there forever.

Note from Dad.  Unlike our regular Sunday meetings in the Temple men sit on one side of the room and women on the other. Each room can sit about 50 people, 25 men and 25 women. To have one side full and the other empty is unusual.

This week, WELL - crazy town!  I need to really start bringing my journal with me to the library to help me remember everything.   Here are the top items.

We met a really awesome girl who we will start teaching this week who would attend the singles ward.

We got to go to a baptism for one girl that Sister Fonokalafi taught in her last area.

We had to drop another girl we've been teaching who had a baptismal date because she's not progressing.

We taught a family from India.

I almost twisted my ankle playing football today.

I made it through New Years without dying from baked goods, I mean people kept giving us sweets (seriously. cake after cake after cookie after brownie. I just want like, some bacon. or jerky people!)

We're going to start teaching/attending/supplementing a family history class at the stake center to try and strengthen the ward and find new people to teach.

I went on exchanges to another area and taught a CRAZY lady who had CRAZY stories and some awesome spiritual experiences.  I chuckled inside the whole time she was telling us the stories at the ridiculous things I was hearing. Her life was like, 6 episodes of CSI.  However, I am so excited for the sisters who work there because she is pretty golden, you know, beneath the crazy. 

I had interviews with President (they happen every other transfer) and transfers and next week! SO I'll write to you next Monday and we'll see if I move! Sister Fono and I want to stay together another transfer (or course) but she goes home soon...so they might steal her back to the visitor's center

:( 

 But we shall see!

That's the summary for this week! Once again, I know it's super short but I have to write my weekly letter to president and then scoot on outta here. I swear, and hour gets shorter and shorter every week. I still have 1 load of laundry to do.....eek!

I love you all - be safe and know that y'all are in my prayers!

Hna Hensley