Blessed Day Drawing upon the powers of Heaven--in the Temple

I am just going to make a short entry here today. I was blessed to spend another great evening in the best place on earth that is closest to heaven! The Mount Timpanogos Temple.

I had tried all day to get some family history work done, only to find that the center I went to was closed on Saturdays. Then, I went to the one by the temple to discover it closed earlier than it does during the week. Well, my logic was to go do that first, then go to the temple on Saturday afternoon to get to see all of my friends that I used to work with on Saturday third shift. I really miss the camaraderie and association with the ones I worked with week to week. Even one of the brethren I saw told me he missed seeing me since I have not been there since the end of February when I changed my day to work at the temple on Saturday evenings to Thursday mornings.



I was able to get in another endowment session after doing initiatory work. I have more names to do than I had originally counted. I had eighteen females names to do instead of twelve. I was able to get six of those completed. So I still have quite a few more to do. I am going on Wednesday next week with a friend of mine, (Jan) to the Provo Temple. She and I get together every couple of months and go to Mt. Timpanogos Temple or Provo Temple. She lives in Payson, so it is our turn to go to the one nearest her. We usually go to lunch as well. It will be nice to have that time together.

We have been friends for over twenty years. I used to visit teach her in my old Cascade Ward when she first moved from California. We have remained friends, almost like sisters. She became a widow when she lost the husband she was married to when I first met her. She had since remarried several years later and lives in Payson.
All of my children know her and her husband and are almost like family. I have none of my own siblings in Utah, so she fills that gap in my life.

What a blessing it is to live so close to a temple and attend it as often as I want to go. I like this habit to go everyday it is open so I can make sure the work is completed. It has been a couple of years that I have had them, so it is time to get them finished. I don't know why I waited so long to do them. It just took a little motivation from my stake presidency. It is a good habit and I want to keep doing the work too. It feels good and like the peace it gives me each day.

Our bishop tells us . . "when we go into the temple often, the temple will be in US." I bear testimony of this to be true.