New Mission President

President Stewart time as president of our mission has passed.  We have a new leader, President Michael Holms,  He has been a mission president in the past also served as a Area Authority Seventy.  The change took place Wednesday.  We had a mission Conference Friday at which he introduced him self.  He is a very spiritual man with a great knowledge of the scriptures.  We are very supportive of his call.  

The fact that the amount of visitors has slowed makes for greater opportunity to talk to the guests at length.  We are working at the West Gate on Tuesday afternoon so I have been able to escort the guests who want to take a tour over to the South Gate where the tours start.  Two men came to the gate as I was walking them for their tour we were having in a conversation about the church.  We stopped on the way so I could answer their questions, lots of really good questions.  The best question was what is required to join your church?  I hope that the missionaries will have the best answer to that question.

Many people who visit are impressed with different things here.  I had a man come and tell me of his mother who visited the square many years ago and talked about the visit frequently and that the best thing was the clean bathrooms.  He then told me that he had made a personal inspection and was also very impressed with the same.  He said the the urinals where very special.   I was surprised as I thought that the bathrooms were just ordinary.

The Draper Temple is having a open house and we have special tickets to give to guests to attend.  We have so many people who would like to see the inside of a temple that this is a real opportunity to have an very strong additional tool to teach the gospel.