We heard a cool experience
in Relief Society today. One of the women here is a student at Hebrew
University. She is getting a Masters in Islamic and Near Eastern Studies. She
was a student on the program a few of years ago. She was talking about her
mission. She was called to the Temple Square mission. Her companion was from
Jordan—they think that she was the first sister missionary called from Jordan!
So both of them spoke Arabic. She talked about how there was this guy who they
met on Temple Square and he loved everything that they told him, but they
couldn’t teach him because he was an Israeli citizen. Then she said that she
came here and the Second Counselor in the District Presidency was speaking and
she realized that he was the man who she had talked to at Temple Square. So
somehow he and his family were able to get baptized. I’m going to have to track
down the story and find out how that happened!
Lana is now here with me
and it’s wonderful to have her. She arrived on Wednesday in the middle of a
huge storm. We were worried about whether the plane would be able to land. In
fact, just after they landed the controllers tower was hit by lightening! There
was a lot of “behind the scenes” work before they arrived because a snow storm
was forecast for Jerusalem. Jerusalem is not equipped for snow. Last year they
had a major snow storm and people were stranded on the road to Jerusalem and it
took them a few days to get everything moving. So this year they were going to
make sure that didn’t happen again. So the police planed on closing down the
major roads into Jerusalem as soon as it started snowing. We had to leave
before they closed the roads and then they arranged for all of the students to
spend the night in Ashdod, with the hope that we could get back to Jerusalem
the next day. It as a very bumpy landing, but we got them and made it to
Ashdod. The next morning we were able to make it to Jerusalem, but the weather
was such that we couldn’t get out and do our orientation walk of the old city,
so they have all been itching to get out. Today after church we were able to
walk down to the Garden Tomb, so that was a lovely break. Tomorrow we’ll get to
the Old city and then they’ll be free to get out and about, which, I think will
make them all very happy!
Yesterday I woke up not
feeling very well. I taught class, but afterwards I spent the day with my head
in a bucket! Lana was so kind to me and kept emptying my buckets! I didn’t stop
throwing up until I got a blessing. So the moral of the story is that I should
have gotten a blessing earlier!
I hope that you like the
pictures that Lana took. The second picture is of the Russian Orthodox tower of
the Ascension on the Mount of Olives.
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