Almost every week a regional portion of Norway, Sweden, or Latvia come to the temple by bus, boat, plane, or car - many of them with entire families including you children. Parents trade off going to the temple and staying with the children, or, another group member will take care of the children. The Temple has four large rooms which allows the groups to conduct sessions by themselves and to be lead by themselves. An amazing amount of work is done with an amazing amount of commitment and enthusiasm.
This past week Latvians came who have the greatest distance to travel with generally the greatest amount of sacrifice. Every group comes and participates with the greatest showing of love. The Latvians were no exception. This time they brought traditional food with them to serve an evening dinner to the Temple Presidency and to the temple missionaries. The night before, on Wednesday, the Presidency and the missionaries honored them back by preparing a dinner for them. On Thursday night, we had a testimony meeting before the dinner lead by the Latvians.
It is so clear that we are a small but very important part of God's plan and that the Church is picking up momentum in phenominal ways towards events that we can only begin to imagine. It is absolutely so exciting to be participating in and to help create just a little part of one of the footsteps and to be able to see the footprints being created. Being here and being involved in a small temple, we are able to see the amount of resources that the Church commits to this great movement. This is the Lord's Church as no one in their right mind would attempt, commit to, undertake, and support such an ambitious and gigantic mission affecting all of God's children through eternities.
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