Today was such a great Sabbath. Our area authority, Elder Kacher, was visiting and spoke in Sacrament meeting. We also had other great talks and an awesome musical number by Daniel, he's this way cool guy here that is also an amazing piano player. The two Spanish-speaking sisters weren't here today, so we all went to the English Sunday School instead. It was the first time I had gone, and it was really good. In Relief Society since I didn't need to translate it was fun to get to listen and participate more in the lesson.
After Church I went with Brooke and Jared over to the Garden Tomb. I mostly just wrote a lot in my journal, but it was really cool because there were a bunch of different groups that moved in and out while I was sitting there. There was a kind of hippie group that were singing campfire-style songs in a foreign language, a baptist group with their preacher, and some other people that were kind of warbling and chanting. Despite all of this, it was amazingly peaceful and I could hear the birds chirping and feel the soft breeze. It was cool too, because as different as all of those people were expressing their worship you could tell that they all had a great belief in and love for the Savior.
After dinner there was a fireside with Elder Kacher. He talked about timing and why we are all here in the Holy Land. He said that even if we may not know it, or see a direct effect while we are here, that there is a reason for each of us to be here and that the more we get to know the people here and talk to them, the more of a difference we will make in someone's life. It was really interesting to hear his perspective on that.
Tomorrow we are going to Yad Veshem, a Holocaust memorial. Over the weekend I have been reading in Anne Frank's Diary, and we just got finished watching Life Is Beautiful. We have been learning about the Holocaust a little bit in our Hebrew and Israeli classes. I think it will be interesting to see Yad Veshem, but I also know that it will be very hard to see and hear about all of the things that took place.
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