Elder Joshua Thayne in Indiana: Week 44 - The Lord knows us and our needs and guides people to help us

Mom,

This week was a little rough. There seemed to be a lot of people that wanted to fight/argue with us and tell us how wrong we are. It was kinda discouraging. But it turned out okay because we had the opportunity to tour the Indy temple yesterday as a mission! The whole mission was there and we all got to see the new Indy temple a week before the open house. It was so beautiful! My favorite painting was a local one original to the Indy temple that depicted Christ in the Americas and all you see is him standing in a jungle setting with 2 little Nephite girls on each side of him. It was such a beautiful temple.

Afterwards, we had the opportunity to clean the temple as well. Elder Ryan and I got the job to dust in the temple so we got to walk through the whole temple again pretty much alone. It was so cool to be there by ourselves and feel the powerful peace and love that our Father has for us.

Like I said, the week was kinda rough. We were having a pretty hard time, but on Friday a member from the branch randomly called and said she felt like she needed to share a scripture with us. She read a few verses from D&C 6 and it brought so much comfort to know that the Lord knows us and our needs and he guides people to help us in our lives.

Later, we were eating at a member's house and he was talking about how Satan tries to do what he can to stop the work from progressing. He shared his testimony and some personal experiences about this is his life. Afterward we told him about our rough week and he pointed out that the Lord knew we needed to eat at his house so we could realize that Satan will try his hardest to stop us from doing what we need to do, especially with the opening of a temple in the mission. It showed us that our Father knows us and he knows who we need to talk to.

Well that's pretty much it for the week. We are excited to bring investigators to the temple open house so they can feel the spirit there. I love you Mom and I'm so grateful for everything you do for me. I pray for you always.

Love,

Elder Thayne