The following intervie is continued from the pages of the Arise 'zine for junior youth where our roving junior youth reporters Neda and May were last seen interviewing Dr. Billy Roberts, Treasurer for the National Spiritual Assembly.

Neda and May:  Do you have any exciting news for junior youth?

Dr. Roberts:  I have a wish.  
 
Dr. Roberts:  I have a wish.  
  

Neda and May:  What's your wish?

Dr. Roberts:  I wish that junior youth all over the United States would come up with ideas to help raise money for the Chilean Temple.  Now the reason I wish this is because of something that happened a couple of months ago.   We have these special visits where people who have contributed to the Kingdom Project are invited to come and visit during a Holy Day.

And there was one man, his name was Mr. Jiveh.  Mr. Jiveh is in his eighties now.  I think he was invited for the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh. He was so excited about visiting the Temple, and even as he walked up the stairs he walked with such care and such reverence. When he reached the top of the stairs at the Temple--you know the pylons that go up before you go into the door?.  He touched each one and just rubbed his hands on them, and then he bowed his head as he went into the Temple.  Later when I saw him I was so touched by what he was doing.  It was very special, and I said to him, "you seem to like you are really enjoying being here".  His English wasn't so good but his wife was with him and said, "yes, he's very happy to be here," and I said, "we're happy to have him." She said "no, you don't understand.  When he was a little boy in Iran he would contribute his allowance to help build the Temple, and now he's here and he actually sees it, and he's so overcome with excitement because finally he's able to see the Temple that he helped to build as a little child."

It reminds me now that we are building the last of the continental Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs in the world.  It's going to be in Chile.  So I want those of you that are junior youth to be able to say to your children and to your grandchildren when they ask you, "did you help to build the Temple in Chile?" to be able to say yes. And if they say to you "what did you do," you can tell them I did this project, or I did that project or I sacrificed to help build that Temple so that when you go and visit it you'll have the same feeling that this man had, because it not only makes you feel blessed but also your children and your grandchildren and their grandchild will be able to say "My Grandmother…" or "My Grandfather contributed to help build this Temple". So that is what I want to say to junior youth.

So this summer when school's out and you are wondering sometimes what do with yourselves maybe you have little projects--lemonade stands, put on plays, make crafts. Do something to contribute to building the Chile Temple because it's a precious opportunity that I don't want you to miss.