Thanks for your e-mail. We do love our
mission. We have really been blessed to have some great missions.
We serve in the Washington DC Temple every day except Sunday and Monday.
We work 6 to 7 hours a day on different shifts per day. If a holiday
falls on a Monday all Missionaries have to work that day, because it is one of
the busiest days. On Saturdays, we have large groups of young people
coming to do baptisms for the dead and most of them are bringing their own
names to do the work for.their ancestors. There are 32 couples and
5 single sister missionaries serving here. We all live in an apartment
complex built just for the missionaries and we are only about 5 minutes away
from the temple but it is difficult to walk to the temple so we drive there.
This temple is huge and there are a lot of workers from the stakes
(covering Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Delaware) serving here as well and they are called District Workers and many of
them drive several hours to get here to serve.
We are ordinance workers so we can officiate in
all areas of the temple except being a Sealer. Joy is assigned as
director of the youth center, so when families come to be sealed, she has a big
job overseeing their care, getting the children dressed in their white clothes
and help them to their sealing. Often there is more than one family at a
time, so that keeps her busy on those days. We have a lot of "Own
Endowments" for marriages and missionaries getting ready to go on
their mission. Merlin is a trainer and helps new ordinance workers become
familiar with the procedures and how to perform the ordinances. Joy is
also counselor in our ward Relief Society and Merlin is Family History
Consultant.
Often on Monday (preparation day) we are
able to see the sites in Washington and visit some of our ancestors sites.
Please tell Terry and Janice Fitzgerald how
grateful we are for their monthly letter keeping us up to date with the Ward.
Merlin and Joy
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