Sunday, May 12, 2013

          First of all, thanks for the Mother’s Day wishes from my awesome children, children-in –law and darling grandchildren.  We are so grateful for skype and how close it lets us be to all of you.  We pray for you every day, for your physical and spiritual safety, and that you will always have a desire in your hearts to follow the Savior and His teachings, and to follow the prophet and his counsel.   

As a follow-up to Pres. Hunter’s counsel about the temple, I have included the following which is the actual quote that was used.

“And we again emphasize the personal blessings of temple worship and the sanctity and safety that are provided within those hallowed walls. It is the house of the Lord, a place of revelation and of peace. As we attend the temple, we learn more richly and deeply the purpose of life and the significance of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.

“Let us share with our children the spiritual feelings we have in the temple. And let us teach them more earnestly and more comfortably the things we can appropriately say about the purposes of the house of the Lord.”

There is so much to learn in the temple.  It takes prayer for discernment, a desire to understand, and commitment to remember what we learn on a personal level.  Your lives are busy now with raising your families and your time is limited; but I hope you can make time, as Pres. Bellows suggested, to return to the sacred house of the Lord for renewal and direction.  When you are raising your children is the time you need it most. 

Just consider the temples we attend as a family— Boise, Dallas, Provo, Reno, Idaho Falls, Lubbock, Bountiful, Logan, Tegucigalpa!  That is quite a list—one temple for each family.  What a great blessing to each of us.

You are beautiful, intelligent, and hard working people who are making great contributions in our world.  You are righteous sons and daughters of God raising righteous families and you would make your pioneer ancestors proud.  You are my life’s work—thanks again for making me look good!! J  I know, I can’t take all the credit; but I feel very honored to be your mother.  Love you more than you know!!  Thanks for a great Mother’s Day!