Eternity

This Saturday, I had the opportunity to go to the Payson Utah Temple open house with my favourite people in the world- my family!

So, it was me, my little sister, my little brother, Dad, Mom, GrandmaH, GrandpaH, AuntJo, UncleRo, Rip, Zap, and Taw. Kad and Cad would have been there, but one of Kad's best friends was getting married... So they opted out.

But ANYHOW. The Payson temple is absolutely gorgeous- I mean, they all are, but Zap and I walked into the first ordinance room, and our jaws just dropped. It was LOVELY. We basically were just slack-jawed through the whole thing.

And the funny thing is, we've gone to temple open houses before- with Dad's side of the family, we've been to the Oquirrh Mountain, Brigham City, Ogden, Draper... And a few more. So we've seen temples before.

But we're always blown away by how lovely they are.

And not only that, but there is this incredible feeling of peace and love- the strongest presence of the Spirit, and in a temple that isn't even dedicated yet! It's wonderful.

And I love temple open houses- because it's such a brilliant promise for the future, for the eternity that can come.

Walking through the Payson temple Saturday night, all I could think was, "This is where eternity starts."

And it's true.

I can't wait for my turn to go through the temple, and someday to be sealed there, to start my own eternity with my husband.

And of course, when eternity finally gets here, I know that I want my whole family there with me- because I can't picture myself without them.

The temple is seriously the greatest thing ever.

Families are forever!

Realised

We do paper routes in my family-it's, well, an adventure. How we've got it worked out is that my momma does three and me, my sister, and my brother, do four others. It works pretty well.

And me and my siblings, how we work it is that I drive, and my brother and my sister run the papers up to the houses. Except for that my sister got her driver's license this weekend, and so my mom told her she could work it out with me to trade off driving.

So she asked if she could drive today, two of our routes. And I didn't think it was a big deal, because I used to have to run routes, before I got my license; so no problem. I don't mind running.

Except for that I learned something about myself this morning. Once I've been given control of a situation, I don't like having that taken away from me. I was on edge the whole time she was driving- even though I KNOW she's good driver. But I kept making comments about how she was doing things, and it drove me CRAZY not to be driving. I had a hard time dealing with that.

I think I need to learn to relax a little, yeah?

And that's all for today. :)