Happy in the temple

Tonight was a great night in the temple. With summer coming Friday nights in the temple are getting harder, with people out playing and me feeling out of the loop, but tonight was great.

I'm just so grateful for the opportunity to serve in the house of the Lord. In the session I was in tonight, there was a girl receiving her own endowment and I was seated at the front so I got to watch everyone instead of watch the movie. I liked to watch this girl who was there for the first time. She had a pretty expressive face and you could see the joy on her face, the confusion sometimes, the worry she wouldn't remember or do something right, and the peace. I love to sit and see all these people and just think about how much God loves them. It's a great experience.

I waited around for the last round a veils even though they said they had enough people and I could go home. I only helped one lady at the veil, but she smiled at me and said thank you and as she started to go through she said "You are very pretty". Sometimes it's great to have a perfect stranger tell you something nice. You know they don't feel like they "have" to tell you that. It's not likely they will see you again, they just genuinely want you to know. Then as I was going to the locker room to change on of the temple workers started to chat and asked if my husband worked in the temple as well. I told her I was single as could be and she said "I find that hard to believe". Again, not really a person who would feel like she "has to" say something nice. Maybe they were just being nice, but it still made my night.

AND LAST NIGHT! We had ward temple night which is always fun, but as I was waiting at name issue for some girls from the ward, I saw Ashley, our beautiful Relief Society President and one of the girls I visit teach and she was so happy to see me! Made me feel like a valued person. I know I have friends and that they care about me, but her excitement to see me caught me off guard and warmed my heart.

Life is good. God is good. Happy as can be.