my temple visit

This month has been a very uplifting month! We were able to attend the celebration of the Fort Collins temple! It was such an amazing experience! All I could feel is so much gratitude for our youth in our temple district. The amount of work, dedication and faith that they have put into the history of the temple made me feel so appreciative. All those youth could have been doing something different that weekend but they all choose to be there and perform. Its also neat to have President Utchdorf  and his wife there too! Anyways the temple dedication was such a neat experience. I have learned so much from the dedication. There was a talk that was shared and it has changed me forever. He said, " Now that you live closer to the temple, I will share a piece of warning. I warn you to not let the little things get in the way of letting you get to the temple. Sometimes its easy to plan a day to go to the temple when its a little far because you have to plan time to get yourself to the temple. But now that you live closer its so easy to let things get in the way and tell yourself that you will go tomorrow or you'll go next week. And that if you continue to do that, you are only pushing yourself further and further away from the temple." And because he said that, I feel embarrass to even say that I can't go to the temple because I have a mountain of laundry to do. Or Who is going to watch Laneah? So, after that talk I have committed to not let that get in the way of me planning on going to the temple the day I want to go. Anyways, this weekend my mom had saturday off. She wants me to drop her off at the temple so she could spend the whole day there.So I tried to do all my laundry on friday night but that didn't work out.

 So, I dropped my mom at the temple in the morning. It's my first time to drive there since it was dedicated. I have driven to the temple ground many times, but never did I had an overwhelming feeling of love as I drove up to temple ground  this weekend. I knew in my heart that this is the Lord's house! What an amazing feeling to have that be testified to me this weekend!  And I felt prompted that I should try to go to the last session and meet my mom there too.  So, i did all i can the next day. I told myself if i can get all of this laundry done by noon, I can go. So I texted mama Jenni and asked her if she could be willing to watch Laneah. So happy she said yes! I happily went to the temple.

It was such a sweet experience. I remembered even more that I am a daughter of God. And what I was doing in that exact moment was exactly what I needed to do. I urge everyone to get to the temple as often as you can. There is peace and joy when we do enter into the house of the Lord. :)