Glen and Lynne Tolman Missionary Blog

Here are a few pictures of first Christmas scenes from the area between the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and the Church Office Building. Sunday Dec 22 We started our Sunday with Music and the Spoken Word.  Today was the choir’s Christmas program. The Conference center had more people in attendance that last week.  The colors were beautiful as shown in the picture below.  The music was inspiring and supported the Christmas theme.  Here are the musical numbers that the choir performed:  Joy to the World, Away in a Manger, Noe! Noe! (a French Carol), Good King Wenceslas, Christmas Bells Are Ringing, A Christmas Carol, and Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah.  The Spoken Word was titled “Good King Wenceslas” and told his story.   The story is shown below and was recorded in Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic. Our Sacrament meeting was wonderful.  I prayed that all would go well as we had a combined meeting and there were some meeting logistics that we needed t

Here is the scene that greeted us a we walked to the Family History Library at 7:30 am on Saturday morning. Sunday Dec 15 We really enjoyed Music and the Spoken Word as the songs were taken from the Christmas Concert held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this past week.   The Spoken Word was Richard Thomas reading Luke 2 as he did in the Christmas Concert.   We went earlier than normal and couldn’t get inside until 8:30 am so we ended up standing outside in the cold for about 15 minutes.   Here is a picture and a copy of the program.  Our Sacrament meeting topic was the prophet Joseph Smith.  The three speakers were excellent and I really enjoyed and felt inspired by their messages.  We ended with the closing hymn #27 “Praise to the Man”. Whenever I sing the last verse, the spirit testifies to me of the prophet Joseph and the great work that he accomplished during his short life. We chose this subject as Joseph Smith’s birthday is on December 23.  Two Young E

Sunday Dec 8 We attended Music and the Spoken Word in the morning.   The music and setting was beautiful and inspiring.   We needed to go through extra security to get into the Conference Center due to the First Presidency Christmas Devotional in the evening.  Our Sacrament meeting subject was on sharing the gospel which is the subject of Sister Franco’s Sunday morning address from the October General Conference titled “Finding Joy in Sharing the Gospel”.   The talks were well prepared and we enjoyed the meeting.   The Relief Society and Priesthood lesson was based on President Nelson’s Sunday morning address “The Second Great Commandment”. Sister Tolman fixed dinner consisting of Mexican Chicken Chowder.   JoAnne and Craig Barlow joined us for dinner as they attended the First Presidency Devotional with us at the Conference Center.   It was very enjoyable to be there in person.   We got there at about 5:15pm and got good seats in the Plaza 2 Section.     The speakers w