Well after six weeks in Studio City I am being transferred out! I get to white wash (pink wash) Mint Canyon in the Santa Clarita Valley! Which means we will be taking over an area that has been an elders' area for over a year! My new companion's name is Sister Smullin! She is just getting out of training, so this area is going to be getting two very young sister missionaries! Watch out Mint Canyon here we come!!
This week was a really cool week! I got to take my recent convert Robert, to the Los Angeles temple, to do his first baptisms for the dead! I also had the honor of being baptized for two of his ancestors and he was able to baptize some people as well! While we were in the temple we started a conversation with one of the temple workers and he told us two really cool stories about the Los Angeles temple!
There is a beautiful painting of Jesus Christ being baptized by John the Baptist, by the baptismal font. The painter who was asked to make the painting was almost done painting the picture when he hit a hard spot. He just could not figure out how to paint the face of Jesus Christ! Every time he painted it, it just felt wrong. He told the temple president the problem and ended up calling the current prophet, David O Mckay, to see what they should do. He told them to come over to his house and he would help them figure out a solution to the problem. They went over and the artist told him the problem he was having. David O Mckay looked him in the eyes and said. He has sky blue eyes and chestnut brown hair. The night before the temple was dedicated, President David O Mckay went to the font, stood by the painting, and said. "He did a perfect job".
The second story of David O Mckay was when his wife and all the stake presidents, bishops, and their wives in the area, were going to do the first endowment session in the Los Angeles Temple right after it had been dedicated. They were following the prophet up the stairs to start the session and the prophet stops in the middle of the staircase, turns around, and says, our Savior Jesus Christ walked up these stairs last night!
Once we left the temple I was talking to Robert and he said, I understand why we have to go through so many interviews to go into the temple. The spirit is just so special there!
I love you all,
Sister Howard
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