Temples

One of the most fantastic thing about living in Utah, is that there are so many temples! Unfortunately I am really quite terrible at taking advantage of being surrounded by this many temples. Maybe it's because back in Iowa, going to the Nauvoo temple was an event. It took 2 1/2 hours to get there, and all the Young Men and Young Women would go, and we could only go like every 6 months. So maybe it is weird to me that you can wake up one morning and decide you want to go to the temple that day and then it takes like 5 minutes to get there. It's basically a foreign concept to me.

Today though, I went to the temple, it was wonderful. My visiting teachers came over on Sunday and at the end of the lesson they asked me if I wanted to go to the temple with them sometime this week, so we planned it for today. I'm so glad that they asked me, because I really needed to go. I'm so glad I did. There is something about the temple that just makes you feel super calm about life, because you know that the Lord is directing you. That is my opinion anyway. So right now I just feel quite okay about everything that is going on.

It was really weird for me to go to a temple other than Nauvoo, I never realized how huge the Nauvoo temple's baptistry is compared to other temples. We went to the Mt. Timpanogos Temple because Provo is closed for cleaning until next week sometime, it was so pretty. I know that my roommate Laura and I are planning on going to Provo as soon as it opens up again, and I hope that I can continue to remember to take advantage of having the temple so close while I can. I hope I can go at least once every 3 weeks, I can do that! There is a temple literally 5 minutes away. I can take out a few hours of my day and go so I can grow closer to my Heavenly Father and feel the love that He has for me.