Sister Hallie Mae Kapp: I can officially give temple tours!

Hello everyone!

My p-day got moved to today because we had a temple trip today. Here's some of the main stuff that happened this week:

-Last Thursday was the anniversary for the 189th year dedication of the Kirtland Temple and they had a program for it and the sisters sang in the choir so that was fun. And a male quintet sang If You Could Hie To Kolob and it was so good.

-Yesterday was the anniversary of Christ appearing to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the temple, accepting it as His house. And I got to give tours at the temple yesterday, so I felt super blessed with that opportunity.

-We had what's call a Next Chapter dinner where we celebrate and say goodbye to missionaries because one of the senior couples was leaving. It was a sad goodbye because they were amazing.

-On April Fools the sisters in my house switched name tags to throw off the senior couples. It was a fun, harmless prank.

-We passed off the Kirtland Temple tour so we get to work there now.

-Today we got to go to the Pittsburgh Temple.

*Spiritual thought: God hears our prayers even the prayers of our hearts. So I wasn't having the best week because life isn't perfect and being a missionary can be hard. So all I wanted was to see someone I remotely knew, but I doubted that would happen. Then one days these people from Clinton came and I was like okay that's cool but I didn't know them but it was something. Then this girl I've known since kindergarten and her mom who works with my mom and their family came and it just made me so happy. Then after that 2 people/families came who know people I'm friends with. It really spoke to me that God truly listens to my prayers even though they might seem silly. So I just want you all to remember that God listens to your prayers sometimes. They'll be as straight forward as my experience and sometimes it might take effort from us to recognize it, but he does answer them!

You all are amazing and I love you all so much!

-Sister Kapp