i love to see the temple

I went through the Temple a week and a half ago. I thought I was ready. Maybe? Nope. I was not. I thought I was going to throw up the whole time. People just kept telling me to "go to feel the Spirit." Ok. I thought I had done the things I needed to, to be "prepared". I guess there's only so much you can do. The Temple is beautiful. Life makes a tiny bit more sense now. I need to go back. again and again. It was different and definitely not what I was expecting, but now I don't know what I thought I was expecting. (if that even makes sense). I am grateful for my family and friends that made the sacrifice to be at the Jordan River Temple so early in the morning.

I was having a hard time deciding which Temple to go through. I felt pressure from my mom to go through Provo because that is "my temple". That's where I grew up going to do baptisms, but I just didn't have a desire to go through there. I don't know if it even matters, but I really wanted to go through the Jordan River Temple. I knew my parents had gotten married there, but I didn't know anything else about it. I think that it was kind of a sub-conscious thing. That was the first thing that I would look for coming around the point of the mountain every time we would go visit grandpa in Sandy. It would be the last thing I would look for after leaving grandpa's.

After I had called and set my appointment for the morning of Saturday August 18th my mom told me that's where she got her endowment, and that my Stapley grandparents (both of whom have passed away), worked in that temple....What? How did I not know that?!...and she still wondered why I wanted to go through that temple...silly mom. :)

 All I could think about after was food. Does that make me a bad person?

My mom and sister Cammy also got to go to the Brigham City Temple Open House tonight. It was so good. It's a beautiful Temple. I think everyone should take their family to temple open houses. (Some of my greatest memories as a kid was going through the open houses. I remember going through the Bountiful, Vernal, Mt. Timpanogos, Nauvoo, Oquirrih Mountain, and Draper Temple's. I am grateful that my mom has made that a priority for our family.)
                                

"I urge our people everywhere, with all of the persuasiveness of which I am capable, to live worthy to hold a temple recommend, to secure one and regard it as a precious asset, and to make a greater effort to go to the House of the Lord and partake of the spirit and the blessings to be had therein."

—Gordon B. Hinckley