Saturday, November 11, 2017

Regular Saturday activities were on our list today and we even managed to do a little shopping.  Glade’s Church calling is keeping him busy in unaccustomed ways.  He is “honing” new skills!  😊 

I went to the church about 8:30 this morning to practice the piano, but was met with a large-scale conference of some kind having to do with college music departments.   I’ll have to try for Monday.  Also, I ordered some great music for accompanying Christmas sing-alongs and really wanted to try it all out!  Part of the plan was to take some photos of the trees around the temple grounds, but the frost the last two night has taken the sparkle out of the leaves; and a few trees just dropped their entire load—green or not—like a magnet had lost its pull, and they piled deep under the branches.  

The evening’s temple work was awesome since we were able to spend most of the time together.  We led a session together, worked at the Spanish veil and two other veils, and completed the last one of the day together.  The evening sessions start every 30 minutes and often include an extra one on the quarter hour.  There are six endowment rooms and 40 veils—20 on each side.  It can get a little tight if there is any delay or if there is a particularly large session—like tonight!  It’s pretty great to see it all work so smoothly.  Perhaps some of your temples have the same circumstances and size.  We are just used to a smaller configuration. 

We are ready for our week-end of Sunday and Monday although the days fly whether we are in the temple or catching up at home.  We hope you are all well and happy.  Hug each other and your children for us!!  Love you all. . .   😊