Glen and Lynne Tolman Missionary Blog

Here is a picture taken on Thursday at the Christkindlmarkt at Heritage Park.  The Christkindlmarkt ended on Saturday night but on Monday through Saturday, December 10 until December 23, the Candlelight Christmas event is held from 5pm to 9pm also at Heritage Park.  We plan to go one night.  Sunday Dec 1 Music and the Spoken Word had a Christmas theme as will the rest of the broadcasts for this month.   The choir really knows how to do Christmas.  As this is the first Sunday of the month, we held our Fast and Testimony Meeting.   Our Sunday School lesson was 1 and 2 Peter from the New Testament.  Here is the tree that is now displayed on the main floor in the JSMB. After church Sister Tolman fixed dinner (cheese and vegetable chowder) and we took this to mom and dad Senior and shared dinner with them at their house.   After dinner we watched “Christmas Jars” which was shown on BYUtv. I worked on research for John Woodruff...

The Cedar of Lebanon tree on Temple Square has nearly 75,000 lights, but it’s only lit every other year so the lights  don’t damage the tree. The beloved tree has been growing on Temple Square for over 75 years, after a woman gave the seed to a grounds gardener – a seed she brought back from a visit to the Holy Land.  It is lit this year.  Here are two pictures.  Cedar of Lebanon - taken Monday November 25 in morning  Cedar of Lebanon taken Friday night November 29 Sunday Nov 24 We attended Music and the Spoken Word.   The theme was thanksgiving and gratitude.   We are so grateful to be able to witness the broadcast live each Sunday morning.   Our branch meetings were spiritual and uplifting.   The subject was gratitude for our Sacrament meeting and all three talks were excellent.   The subject for our Priesthood / Relief Society lessons was President Eyring's talk to the women at the last conference titled “Co...

Here is a picture of a sunset taken from our apartment on Sunday night. Sunday Nov 17 We attended Music and the Spoken Word.   It was held in the Conference Center this week and will be until the first week of January.  We like the sound better in the Tabernacle but with the increased crowds that come along with the various concert events in December, the broadcast moves to the larger venue. Our Sacrament meeting speakers shared uplifting messages with the theme based on Elder Ulisses Soares Oct 2019 conference talk titled "Take Up Our Cross".     Our Sacrament meetings have been very good and I look forward to our meetings each Sunday. We invited four Young Elders for dinner and Sister Tolman prepared a potato bar and pistachio salad. We all ate our fill as normal.   We signed up for six but enough other Senior missionaries signed up to feed them that only four came to dinner, Left to Right- Elder Moss, Elder Arndt, Sister Tolman, Elder ...