Temple Square

Hello everyone, I'm back on Temple Square!!! Super awesome! It's been great to be here for the lights!!! It truly is amazing here on Temple Square and I'm so grateful for my experience outbound and that I had the opportunity to grow so much. Seeing the members in my outbound mission I can truly help the members that come here do their missionary work. I have felt a difference as I came back like I'm a new missionary and to have both these experiences that definitely helped me. As I was outbound even though I wasn't training, I felt like I was because my companion hadn't really gotten to teach that much. Being on Temple Square we teach every day so it wasn't hard for me, but I had to help her grow and in turn that helped me to grow so much. I learned a lot about patience and love. We had some other sisters as our roommates and I was the oldest both in age and being on the mission so I felt like I was their mom. It was great to help them out with some of their problems and I feel that helped me with coming back here to Temple Square because there are a lot of new sisters that I don't even know and my new assignment is zone leader. I felt so overwhelmed in the airport when I found out I was going to be a zone leader because I remembered all my other zone leaders and how amazing they were or not so amazing so I was worried and scared. I had to pray a lot these past couple of days to help with my anxiety, but it's better now and I feel that I can do it with the Lord's help of course. I have been saying "I love you" a lot more and for those of you who know me I don't really say those words so I have grown up. The mission and especially being a zone leader has helped me to look outward and not so much inward. I have been thinking about my investigators and my zone for a while and I have no time to think about me! I want to share a scripture that I just found. It's in D&C 101:36 and it says, "Wherefore, fear not even unto death; for in this world your joy is not full, but in me your joy is full." I am the happiest when I am helping someone come closer to Christ. Whether that's a guest on the Square or one of the missionaries here. This is the Lord's work and we should do it joyfully. I love the work and I love the Lord! Thanks for all you do to help the work move forward!!! Sister Stolp