Temple Blessings

 Another week gone.  And we made it!

It was a pretty typical Covid Quarantine week.  I am starting to get more and more excited for General Conference.  It's one month away!  And so is Easter!  My favorite time of year.  I am really looking forward to focusing on our Savior, Jesus Christ, even more than I normally do.  I love our Easter traditions.  We celebrate Holy Week and focus on Christ and what His life was like during the last week of His life.  I love it so much.  This year, Easter falls on General Conference weekend.  It's going to be an spiritual feast!

I fasted this Thursday for Aaron Kaey, who underwent his first surgery for his colon cancer.  I hurt for his wife and daughter.  So sad.  Why does cancer have to touch the lives of such wonderful people?  It breaks my heart.

I went to a virtual Relief Society Lesson on Tuesday.  It was about the Temple, based on the talk by Elder Rasband, "Recommended to The Lord".  I became very emotional thinking about the temple.  I miss it so much.  I can't believe that it has been over a year since I have been in His holy house.  I yearn to go back.  I became emotional as I shared a experience that I had in the temple.  After my Mom died, I fully expected for her to come to me in the form of an angel.  I didn't see any reason why she wouldn't come.  I felt like I had the faith for her to come...so why not?  Anyway, I would go to the temple often, almost obsessively after she died.  I went to feel the peace that I so desperately needed.  I also went with a very deep hope and desire to see my Mom in the temple.  I have heard of experiences like that happening to many people and I wanted to experience it for myself.  Only...it never happened.  I never felt my Mom in the temple.  I imagined that she was there, but I never felt her.  Then, in the summer of 2019, 6 years after Mom died, I went to the temple with Nana and Grandpa Duncan.  We went to the Edmonton temple when we were there visiting them.  Edmonton is the city that Mom was born in and that I was also born in.   Anyway, at the end of the session I was standing with Nana in the celestial room and she asked me if I felt my Mom...and I did.  I felt the presence of my Mom very strongly.  She was there!  I couldn't see her, but she was there.  She was there, right next to her Mother and her Daughter.  I stood there and just felt her presence...and savored every moment.  I don't know if I'll ever have the opportunity to feel her inside of the temple again, but I treasure that experience.  It actually reminded me of the first time I went through the temple (The Logan Temple).  My Mom was my escort.  As soon as I entered the Celestial Room, I started crying.  I was overwhelmed with the spirit.  My Mom was there.  My Dad was there.  Jon was there.  Three people that I love so much.  The thought came to me that this is what Heaven will feel like.  Because of the covenants we make in the His holy house, we will be able to have beautiful reunions with our loved ones in the Celestial Kingdom.  In the spirit world, prior to that.  I look forward to that Day with great anticipation.  The day when I will be able to see my Mom and be with her forever, never to part again.  Because of the promises and the covenants that we make in the temple, each of us will never have to say a final goodbye to our loved ones.  Any separation that happen are merely temporary.  How could we not all rejoice in such a blessing?

Bryce will be getting the priesthood tomorrow.  He will be getting ordained to the office of a Deacon.  I am very excited for him.  When I say it out loud I get a little emotional.  It's very strange that my own son will now be holding the priesthood power of God.  I hope and pray that He will recognize the importance of this sacred calling and obligation.  I hope and pray that He will always follow the example of his father and always think of others before himself.  I hope he will always live his life to be worthy of the priesthood that he holds.  If he lives worthily, he will always be prepared to use His priesthood to bless the lives of others when necessary.  I sure love Bryce.  I see the great potential that he has.  He is a wonderful son.  I'm very proud of him.  He'll always be my little Bubba.

I've been really bad at taking pictures lately.  I need to do better at capturing the beautiful moments in time.  Most days are pretty monotonous, but there are still wonderful moments worth recording.


The girls put on a little puppet show this week -- very creative and entertaining!  I love my daughters.  I have been so blessed with 2 daughters who love each other.  What more could I ask for?


Jon shot and killed this rat by our grill this morning!  Yuck!  Glad that He caught it before it made it inside the house!



We made it to Apollo Park on Wednesday.  I love that park!




I'll try to take better pictures this week.

I am so incredibly blessed.  Heavenly Father has blessed me more than I deserve.

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