Melbourne, Australia
90th operating temple
Dedicated: 16 June 2000
By: Gordon B. Hinckley
Jesus Christ, Redeemer
D&C 29:46
But behold, I say unto you, that little children are redeemed from the foundation of the world through mine Only Begotten;
Book of Mormon
3 Nephi 28:1-24
D&C
132:29-66
"Come Follow Me"
Video of President Nelson, the parable of the shopper and eternal marriage
OctGenCon
"Favored of the Lord in All My Days"
Elder Moises Villanueva
Of the Seventy
The Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the many trials and challenges that God's children have confronted throughout the history of the world. The pandemic and other causes brought death and pain to our family through the passing of some dear loved ones. Despite medical attention, fasting, and prayer, during the course of five weeks my brother Charly, my sister Susy, and my brother-in-law Jimmy crossed to the other side of the veil.
We feel intense pain when we experience the temporary separation from our loved ones. The Savior has perfect compassion for us. He doesn't fault us for our shortsightedness nor for being limited in visualizing our eternal journey. Rather, He has compassion for our sadness and suffering.
#2
All human beings - male and female - are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.
Up at 4. Ready to go to the temple. I fix my oatmeal with blueberries and unload the dishwasher. After eating breakfast I go in to get ready to go. James gets up and checks my tires for me.
On the way to Snowflake I listen to Brother Halverson and then to my audio book, "An Engagement of Sorts." I arrive at the temple in time to get ready and make it to preparation meeting upstairs by 6:30. It seems funny being her by myself but I am glad I came. President and Sister Perkins are presiding. They talked about the remodeling in the second endowment room, the repaving of the parking lot because of a leak underneath it, and that women can now work at the recommend desk.
I am assigned in the baptistry for the entire time. That's fine, I won't have to go up and down the stairs. I work with Sister Neff and Sister Farr. This is the first time Sister Farr has been back since Covid and I am so glad to see her. She lives in Holbrook and I told her that's where I was born.
Our first "group" is due here at 7 a.m. Our group consists of one sister and one brother. The next group came at 8:30. I believe there were six of them, all brothers. We helped them get their clothing and handed them their towels when they came out of the water. Some of these young men are so tall! Each group is allowed one hour and they are strict about not letting them go over. That wasn't a problem today.
We had a smaller group of young men and young women at 9:45 and then our largest group was scheduled at 11. In this final group there were five men and three women. We had to stop one young man from baptizing a larger young man because he was not completely going under the water. I don't think the baptizer was even looking at him or he would have noticed that he wasn't dunking him deep enough.
Sister Neff went in to the confirmation room as is the rule when there are young women being confirmed. In the meantime Sister Farr and I take all of the women's wet clothing to the laundry room and then put the carts back in the dressing room. It was after noon, and we just completed our last assignment of the day so we are ready to go home.
I stopped to get me some lunch at McDonald's minus the diet Coke. That may have been a mistake because I kept nodding off on the way home. Thank goodness I made it safely. James was happy to see me and said his prayers were answered. He told me about his day thus far and was actually in a pretty good mood. I am grateful he is feeling a little better.
I took a nap on the recliner and James joined me on the other recliner. After my nap I did some walking and then went in to work on my blog. I worked 20 minutes on my blog and walked 20 minutes, rotating until it was time to watch our Christmas movie at about 7:30. By this time I had over 8,000 steps and will finish up before the movie is over.
We watched a Hallmark movie, "The Family Christmas Tree." It was about a girl who has her DNA test taken and there is a paternal match, her father. She meets him and becomes part of the family only to get a call from the DNA company telling her there has been a mistake. She hesitates to tell the family until the night they are taking a family picture and she says there has been a mistake and she is not actually Richard's daughter. She leaves and everyone is sad. In the meantime Richard finds a picture of the girl he loved 31 years ago. When everyone looks at the picture they realize she has to be Vanessa's mother so they set out to find her. Vanessa is part of the family again and she and a family friend, Chris, played by my favorite, Andrew Walker fall in love. Aimee Teagarten is the actress and she is great! We both really liked this movie.
Farmhouse kitchen & pantry
Grandmother is James's Mom
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