Yesterday I had the awesome opportunity to go through the Spokane Washington temple with some wonderful ladies! The first temple that I went through to get my endowments was the Rexburg Idaho temple which was a hecka lot bigger than the Spokane one. The temple in Rexburg had stairs and seemed really big (to me anyways) and Spokane had only one floor, but it was still really pretty! It was an awesome experience! The only thing I would have to say that wasn’t so great about it, when we went into the dressing room to put our temple dresses on, it smelled like a super bad onion salad or something mixed with B.O. I was pretty much gagging. I know that some temples are big enough to have cafeterias in them. So I told me mom ‘wow, they must be cooking something with a ton of onions in them in the cafeteria.’ unfortunately, my mom told me that this temple was too small to have a cafeteria… so that was NOT onion soup I was smelling. It was just real nasty B.O. I guess that room just doesn’t get any ventilation! But it was a super fun trip overall.
This is my mom and I in front of the Spokane temple. I love my mom!
Melisa Olsen, Yours truly, and Shalayn Price. These ladies are SO awesome and fun!
After the temple, we went to a store called Down East, I was still on the hunt for missionary skirts and was stressing out about it (I was worried some of my skirts that I had were boarder line too short for missionary standards) But thank the heavens, we hit jackpot! Down East is THE place to go to find missionary dresses and skirts… and shirts, and jewelry and pretty much anything besides shoes! We found a ton of super cute skirts and they weren’t very expensive. A lot of the skirts I got were $15 (they were on the clearance rack) And these are the kind of skirts with a built in slip which = awesome. So, if you don’t want to look like a pioneer on your mission, I’d say go to Down East, they have the cutest, most modest and most comfortable clothes! And affordable too! I will have pictures of the outfits that I found a little later.
After a quick little shopping spree, we headed over to Krispy Kream donuts… which by the way is the.best.place.ever. We don’t have one in missoula so when ever we go to Spokane (which isn’t very often because it’s 3 hours away) we always load up on donuts! So far, they taste amazing!
And for our final stop, we went to Olive Garden (another one of my favorite places) and holy cow, I died and went to heaven. I love the salad and bread sticks there. SO GOOD. All four of us ladies ordered the same thing! We each saw the picture of what we wanted and we all said ‘yep. That is what I want!’ It was delicious!!! My tummy was sooo happy after that meal.
After we drove 3 hours back home I quickly left home to go do splits with the sister missionaries. (There are currently 3 sister missionaries so in order for them to have more appointments, we do splits where two sisters go off and teach someone and I get to go with the other sister and kind of learn the ropes) We taught an amazing lady named Angie. She has a 4 month old daughter named Haisley (I’m probably butchering everyone’s name in this post… I’m a terrible speller) And she is such a cute and smily girl! We did the lesson at another member’s house (the Larsen’s) and it was a super good lesson. Angie has already picked a date to get baptized and has pretty much taken all the lessons. So the lesson we had with here was basically a ‘get to know you’ thing and see if she had any questions about what was going to happen with the baptism. She is an awesome lady! She asks so many good questions and have so many great comments. She has such a strong spirit and is a very strong woman too. I know that she is making the best choice of her life to be baptized and she will be so blessed from doing so.
So, that was pretty much my whole day yesterday! Full of tons of excitement and it was super spiritual. Can’t wait to be serving a mission myself! I’ve got less than two weeks left before I’m off to the Mexico MTC!
