Oquirrh Mountain Temple

Today was to Oquirrh Mountain Temple Dedication. It was really neat, as the 2^nd on this summer that I have had the opportunity to attend.

We made it there but the doors were already locked, although Bro. Christensen was there and let us in. we were sent to find a spot in the high counsel room, which I think was one of the better seats. They showed a lot of pictures of the temple while were waiting, especially of the "Mirror room", as my little sister likes to call it.

There were a few speakers, most of which talked to the youth in attendance, I thought that it was really cool that they would direct there attention to the little kids, to prepare to enter the temple. They talked of the importance of the youth programs like the Personal Progress, Faith in God, and Duty to god, as the pathway to entering the temple and getting your endowments.

One of the speakers encouraged the youth to write in their journals, and record how we felt during the dedication. I felt the spirit throughout the meeting, I know that there are where ever there is a temple there is a house of God. Although there are temples all around the world, I believe that there are also other holy places, When Moses saw the burning bush, he was told to remove his shoes because he stood on holy ground, I believe that where ever Heavenly Father resides is holy. That could be in your own homes, in the mountains, and in nature itself.

I was once told that the sacred Grove in New York is to far away, you need your own sacred grove. Although there aren't any wooded places close by, there are place that I can go to talk to my Heavenly Father.

Quick Catch Up:)

When ever I work on designing my blog, I usually don't postL so I am trying to make that not so.

I don't even know where to start. So I guess I will start with Basketball tournaments for Jed. Jed played in 2 recruiting tournaments and got 2 Major scholarships. He got more than 2 but the ones that he his trying to pick between is Houghton University, and Southern Virginia University. I am excited for him, but school starts in like 3 weeks, that means that he will be gone in two!!! It also means that he is leaving next week to go and tour them, another few days without my brotherL.

Work with the Horses is doing well, but we will see what happens when school starts (yikes!). However I left for a week, only to find that I am now in charge of only 6 horses including my own 3 in my section, as opposed to the 11 that I had when I started. There were 3 that moved in the last week!!!

We went to spend 2 days in SLC 2 weeks ago and wouldn't you know it, we stayed for a week and a half! So it has put us behind in a lot of things, including seeing my BFF who has been here all summer and leaves next week, but she is far enough away that I haven't seen her yet! I hope that we do get to see each other.

While we were in SLC we got the news that my Great Aunt Janet, died of a brain tumor last Mon. She was always friendly and happy, but has been battling cancer of one form or another for a few years now. Her Funeral was Sat. and even though it was under sad circumstances, it was fun to see all my cousins that I don't get to see very often, I think we made a record, and saw some cousins that we haven't seen in forever twice in the last 3 months! Although the first meeting was betterJ