TEMPLE TUESDAY

I love Temple Tuesday! This morning I went at 9:30 to do baptisms. All the brethren were in a session so I had to wait for a little while until they could get to the baptistry. I didn't mind though because Sis. McCrae was working and she is one of my favorite people in the whole world! So me and her just talked for like 20 or 30 minutes while I waited. Her daughters went on missions so sometimes she shares stories with me about how her daughters liked their missions. President Cox (Is that how you spell his name?) had some family  names he needed done so I got to do those. I love it when the people you are baptizing for have the same last names, because then you know that you are baptizing a family. And picturing a family finally getting to be together after waiting so long is awesome. Especially when you get to be a part of it. Sometimes before I baptize I ask them to let me see the cards so I can look at the date of death on them. Then I can see how long they have been waiting. It's really cool to do that, but sometimes kind of sad. Like the people that had to wait 200 years or more to get their ordinances done?? SO crazy! I'm just glad they don't have to wait any longer once I'm done!

After I got home from the temple most of the girls were still in bed. So I lied in my room and talked to Jessica about her wedding for a while. She is pretty stressed about it, but then whenever Sean calls her on the phone she gets so happy, and they are just so in love that it doesn't even matter how stressful the wedding is haha. After I lied around for a while and acted lazy I decided I better get up and do something with myself. So I went back to the temple and studied Preach My Gospel for a while. I tried to memorize the first vision. It's not that bad but I always get the "brightness of the sun" and "brightness and glory defy all description" parts mixed up. In mission prep they challenged us to see if we can relate the first vision for over 60 seconds and that is SUPER HARD. Seriously so hard. The most I can get it to is like 45 seconds haha. But it's important to go slow and pause a lot because the first vision is a lot for people to take in!

After the temple I went to Lela's house to help her move her room back upstairs. Leslie moved in with them so it kind of moved the room arrangements around. I was only there for a couple hours then I came home to get ready for a date that I had with a guy named Cody Elmer. We went bowling.. yay. My favorite thing haha. I actually have a really funny story to tell about that when I see you guys. We doubled with Devin Brown and a nice girl named Lavita. The date was short, I got home at 10, 10:30ish. After the date a lot of our friends went to Elise's house and played the FUNNEST game, I have to show it to you guys when I come for the sleepover. Then after that we went to Denny's because it was like 2 in the morning so technically it was Cassie's birthday already. So it was a really long eventful night. After I got home from Denny's, it seemed like an eternity since I gone to the temple that same morning. But I live so close so I can go back every day if I want to! I LOVE living next to the temple, and I love that we have a temple so close to us!