What's your temple of Solomon?

 (Sister Cummings)

Hey Howdy Y'all!!!

Y'all this was a bit of a crazy week. We had SO MANY meetings at the beginning of the week and then Sister Nybo and I got sick at the end of the week so it honestly felt like we didn't do much missionary work at all. But we feel better now so the Firle area better watch out because Sister Nybo and I are going to go HARD with the missionary work this week. We're excited!

Oh, one fun story is that on Saturday it was just Sister Nybo and I on a bus. But actually jk it was just Sister Nybo and I and a CHUNKY MOTH on a bus. So we literally spent the whole bus ride changing seats trying to get away from this creepy scary moth. He must've been really interested in the message we had to share because he WOULD NOT leave us alone. Eek, I'm so afraid of moths. But hallelujah we survived.

One thing that was amazing this week is that we got to play and perform a lot of music. I'm SO THANKFUL to have a violin with me right now (thank you Matilda!) The spirit is so strong when beautiful, Christ-centered music is played. It's so yeehaw.

Okay here's the spiritual stuff for the week:

I want to focus on 2 Nephi 5:16 which says

"And I, Nephi, did build a temple; and I did construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon save it were not built of so many precious things; for they were not to be found upon the land, wherefore, it could not be built like unto Solomon’s temple. But the manner of the construction was like unto the temple of Solomon; and the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine."

Okay, this may seem like such a random verse but I promise you that it has a lot of meaning. When you change "temple of Solomon" to anything you have that is imperfect such as, your family, your body, your faith, etc... this scripture becomes so touching. We may not have perfect things in this life no matter how hard we try. We may have members of our family that are not present or who have chosen to leave the church but if we continue to try our best with what we've got and include the Lord the workmanship of those imperfect things in our live will be still "exceedingly fine".

Also, basically I'm saying that y'all are all FINE!

I love y'all!

- Sister Cummings

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