January 31

We finally got the Family History couple to open the center for us. We only had four there, but that is a start.

We had 20 in the temple. We had only one in the session, one in initiatory, and the rest were in the baptistry. When we went into the session at 6:00 there were only seven in the baptistry. It seems that the rest of the YSAs meandered in until 7:30 which, of course, causes a problem for the temple. The laundry is done by the senior sisters, and Sister Davis. When the last baptisms are done at 8:00 whoever is in the laundry does not get out until after 10:00 and on Friday the temple workers have to be the temple early in the morning. We were asked by President Davis and Sister Davis to fix the problem. Sister Davis kept saying,"Tell them we love them and want them in the temple." Over and over.

As we spoke about it, Scott said, "This is like the Parable of the Ten Virgins who were late and the door to the wedding was closed and they were left out forever." Inspiration. It is the way we will approach this issue with the YSAs. I think we will also speak about the House of the Lord is a house of order. We are going to talk about it with each class we teach and then ask them to be in the waiting room of the temple before 5:30. At 5:30 we will go to the baptistry and those not with us will have to go to an endowment session or initiatory or wait till the next week to do baptisms. We are praying that they will feel our love and the love of the Davises.