Ask Away Sunday: Week 23

Which temple did you receive your endowments in? 
The Idaho Falls Temple. 

How many temples have you been to? 
Probably not enough, but I have been to several.  

What was your initial reaction when you opened your mission call? 
I actually didn't know how it worked out for disabled people to have an opportunity to serve a mission. So I was grateful that I was able to serve a mission in my own area

Reflect back on your mission, share a FEW stories about your mission and how they strengthened your testimony.
The summer after I graduated high school I took a family vacation to Hawaii. I was briefly able to see one of my cousins who was serving a mission there at the time. It seemed like Hawaii would be a great place to serve a mission, but when I went on my mission I realized that it didn't matter where you served as much as how you served which strengthened my testimony.

I was able to teach Seminary on my mission in the same place that I went to Seminary classes when I was in high school.  It was a very interesting experience to look at Seminary from a different perspective. I remember that it was especially inspiring to see how willing some of the girls in that class were to go the extra mile to help the special needs students in the class be successful. 

I also assisted with doing Family History work and had to learn a quite a bit about it to be able to help people to do it which was way out of my comfort zone and made me a better person. I didn't have a testimony of the importance of doing family history work, but I was able to gain a basic testimony of why that work is in important. Family history still isn't something that I'd be thrilled about doing on my own, and I haven't taken the time do to much of it since my mission, but I do appreciate the opportunity to have a lady and man train me about it who truly loved it and were so passionate about it.