A Night at the Las Vegas Temple

Kirsten and I went to the Temple tonight. Dad, Kirsten, and I had just gone on Saturday, but Kirsten and I felt a need to go back to the Temple again tonight. I love that you can count on so many things by being at the Temple, and in a session. You can count on feeling peace. You can count on receiving inspiration. You can count on feeling close to the Spirit of the Lord. You can count on feeling the Love of God. You can count on feeling greater love for everyone, especially your family. You can count on learning something new. Everytime I go, I learn something new. You can count on participating in an eternal blessing for someone else. You can count on feeling better about life after you finish a session, than before you started. You can count on feeling hope. You can count on being in the beautiful celestial room to think, and ponder, and visit, and draw strength. You can count on people all dressed in white looking and acting like angels, and greeting, and guiding you. And that is just a few of the things you can count on. I love to go to the Temple. It has been the greatest blessing of my life to have had the privledge of attending the Temple for 31 years now. I never, never grow tired of it. What a great privledge and blessing it is to attend the Temple. Love, MOM

Kindness Begins with Me

Well I am on a Kindness kick today. As members of the true church of Jesus Christ we believe in living exemplary lives. I am actually admonished in my partirachal blessing to be careful, kind, and tender, and diplomatic, kind, and tolerant. That is being reminded to be kind two times. Needless to say this admonishment has haunted me now for over 33 years. And I would like to be able to say that at the moment that I received my blessing I was able to embrace those lines. Actually not so. It has taken me almost 33 years to become pretty good at being Kind, careful, tender, diplomatic, and tolerant. And I still am not perfect. But to my posterity, I say, learn it in your youth. Choose now to be all of those things. The price of kindness is self-restraint, and it is worth its weight in gold. I do believe in being kinder than the situation requires. Always. There are too many examples in my life of when I wished that I had been kinder. Now that I am a kinder person, I think of all the hurt that being unkind caused...it is such a waste. And all the saddness that being kind could prevent. It is very like our Savior to be kind, and merciful, tender, and tolerant. He has given us so many examples. I hope you will join me this week in my personal goal to be kinder to everyone than I have ever been. Especially kind to those you love most. Love, MOM