Temple Blessings, Pickleball, Break the Fast Dinner, and the Nauvoo Temple

This has been a wonderful week, primarily because two sisters who are in the Kewanee Branch received their temple blessings this past Tuesday in the Nauvoo Temple.  We taught them the Temple Preparation classes last year.  Marilyn was their guide in the temple.  We were privileged to be with them while they were there.  Their names are Antoinette Hall and her grandmother, Joanne Turner.  

After they received their temple blessings they both said they were very happy to be in the temple and said they felt peace there. They both want to come back soon.  We are so happy for them and feel so blessed that we could be involved with them receiving their temple blessings.  Below is a photo of them with us at Church yesterday.




This past week I decided to play pickleball again ( I played many months ago) with some of the temple missionaries.  We have a fitness center here (Motley's) where we can play.  They also have many weight and aerobic machines which many of us use.  It was a lot of fun playing with these wonderful fellow missionaries.  Below is a photo of us.




Yesterday we had dinner at President and Sister MacKay's home.  It was our monthly Break the Fast Dinner, which is held in different temple missionaries (or Temple Presidency) homes.  We had a very pleasant time with these wonderful people.  After dinner we played a version of Catch Phrase with index cards in a bowl, with Gospel topics listed.  It was a lot of fun.  We have hosted this dinner in the past.  Below is a photo of all of us who were there yesterday.



We continue to feel very blessed and honored to be able to serve in the Nauvoo Temple.  Every day we see tender mercies in the temple as individuals and families come to participate in temple ordinances.  The Spirit is strong in the temple.  Every temple is "The House of the Lord".  What a wonderful opportunity we have to serve as ordinance workers and sometimes as patrons in this beautiful temple.