Addendum to Sunday--Report on Temple Workers' Devotional

Sunday was a busy day. Not that challenging but nevertheless full. My meetings start at 1:00 p.m. It seems that half the day is gone by the time church begins, with home and visiting teachers it feels like a full day already. Then after Church there is usually things to do and places to go. There goes the Sabbath and that is mostly every week of how to spend quality time with family, Aaron & Candice.

I missed them while I was away at Tana & Nathan's. I opted to have dinner with them and visit with them un-rushed. I knew I had a devotional with Elder L. Tom Perry speaking at the Tabernacle in American Fork. There were two sessions to choose from, but since my meetings go so late until four, the 5:00 one was out of the question.

The messages given by the speakers were wonderful. Sister Perry spoke before her husband. She gave an inspiring message. She spoke of her own experience of receiving her endowment as a single sister and shared some of her comments from her journal. She was a single sister for most of her adult life it seems and became Elder Perry's second wife when his wife passed away.

Sister Perry told about a beloved granddaughter, (never mentioning a word about "step" granddaughter) who just got married in July this year. She told of a poem the mother of the bride wrote when she was eight years old and the white dresses she wore when she was blessed as a baby, baptized in and to be married in. I love that poem and have always liked it.

The sweet thing about it was when she told about her granddaughter's wedding reception that a baby (relative) in their family wore the original white blessing dress, besides her younger sister wore her white baptism dress and she herself wore her own beautiful white wedding gown too. I was touched by the poem to say the least. I had never known the origin of the poem about the white dresses.

Then Elder Perry spoke about his first interview with his father/bishop to be endowed. He shared how his parents always attended the temple in his youth and knew the blessings of seeing his parents faithful in their service to the Lord in the temple.

I will post more from my notes later which are not close by.