Dear family and friends,
Happy
June!! It officially feels like summertime with sun hats and sun screen
and bug spray. And it's starting to feel like summer with all the people
who have been coming into the site. I LOVE being busy!!
This past week we had lots of early morning meetings with Brother Kay from Salt Lake. He has worked with lots of different visitor centers and came to do our annual evaluation. For two days he snuck around the homes following us or joining our tours, sometimes leaning against doors listening (a little intimidating haha), so we caught on to who he was pretty quick. But after all of his fun snooping around, he got to tell us what we could improve and gave us options and ideas of how to do the summertime. He was very, very complimentary towards us and said that he had never seen a visitor center experience done better. It was a great couple of days of training to boost our morale and get us going for July.
Right after Brother Kay left the week got so busy that we had to split companionships and send single sisters to take groups by themselves in order to deal with crowds.... So I've taken a handful of tours by myself. This week we've had so many AWESOME families coming in.
I was able to
take a great tour with a family of 12 who had visited literally every
church site, and we were their last stop. As I walked down to the homes
with them I was talking to one of the daughters who had just finished
7th grade. She asked me how long I'd been out my mission and if I liked
it and I told her going on a mission has been the best! She said
"that's what everyone says!" So I asked her if she wanted to
go on a mission and she said that after this family trip, yes! I asked
why and she said it was because of all the awesome sisters she had met
at the sites they had visited and because she had felt the spirit so
strong and she loved how that felt. It was so cute!!
Sister Francis and I took other families on tours Sunday (which has been
the busiest Sunday we've had since opening!!) in the POURING rain!!
We
were absolutely soaked!! In the Smith kitchen we like to read a
scripture that was translated there in that space, so we asked for
somebody's favorite that we could read. One young woman piped up and
read Helaman 5:12 https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/5?lang=eng, which was extremely appropriate with the torrential
downpour just outside. The rain was pounding and the room was dim, but
testimonies and thoughts were shared and the Spirit was so strong.
Leading by example, and being led by the Spirit= influencing
lives for better!
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| Trying to have shade while on tours |
This past week we had lots of early morning meetings with Brother Kay from Salt Lake. He has worked with lots of different visitor centers and came to do our annual evaluation. For two days he snuck around the homes following us or joining our tours, sometimes leaning against doors listening (a little intimidating haha), so we caught on to who he was pretty quick. But after all of his fun snooping around, he got to tell us what we could improve and gave us options and ideas of how to do the summertime. He was very, very complimentary towards us and said that he had never seen a visitor center experience done better. It was a great couple of days of training to boost our morale and get us going for July.
Right after Brother Kay left the week got so busy that we had to split companionships and send single sisters to take groups by themselves in order to deal with crowds.... So I've taken a handful of tours by myself. This week we've had so many AWESOME families coming in.
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| With the Andreasens visiting from Gilbert |
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| Soaking wet |
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| Fun with fireflies |
Love,
Sister Larsen
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| I love the green canopies of trees! |
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| Beautiful June day in PA |
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