"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley


"None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us."

--Sheri L. Dew

Saturday, October 2, 2010

A TEMPLE IN PORTUGAL!!

Did you watch the first session of General Conference? Most of you know, but some don't, I served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in the Lisbon Portugal mission. And today, our prophet announced there would be a temple built in Lisbon!! I still am trying to come down and settle back into reality. What a blessing for those people not to have to travel clear to Madrid, across a border for days to go to the temple. Maybe now the country will accept temple marriages and they won't have to be married civilly first. Can you imagine how many more people will be sealed, how many more children will be born in the covenant and what strength Portugal, as a nation even, will receive? Oh, it makes me want to go on a mission there now, again! Maybe in 40 years? I hope all you mission buddies are just as excited as I am, in fact, I know you are!

5 comments:

Ana Margarida G. V. da Cruz said...

Estsmos todos tão felizes...nem podes iamginar....

Nicole said...

I thought of you when I heard that! Yay for Portugal!

Carrie said...

My comment foi cumprido de mais! So, I'll have to do my own post or something, but yeah. I am so happy for Portugal!! <3

Angie said...

I know, I'm so thrilled!!!

Mae said...

i,m a little jealous of the missionaries there now...