YW Temple Trip

The Young Women went on a temple trip today. We left this morning at 6:00 a.m. from the church. We were blessed to be able to get a 15 passenger van so that we could all ride together. Kaci said that they didn't have any available and so they were going to have to take two separate vehicles. Then when she went to pick up the rental car there was a 15 passenger van in the parking lot. She said, "Can we take that instead?" They said she could. When she asked how much more it would cost they said she could take it for the same price as the smaller vehicle! What a blessing!

We had our presidency along, Kaci, Heather, and me and ten girls. The first ward also came up at the same time with their girls. We had a nice visit on the way up and the girls slept part of the way. We went straight to the Timpanogos Temple and the girls did baptisms. That is such a beautiful temple! The experience wasn't quite as nice as the Provo temple though because the temple workers kept asking everyone to put their bags and purses in a locker when we were in the room outside of the font area. All of the girls came out with their bags after doing baptisms and were all told that they had to go put them back in the lockers in order to do confirmations. So there was a lot of walking back and forth getting things in and out of lockers, which seemed a bit unnecessary.

The girls did baptisms for the dead and then we all went out to eat in Provo. Some of the girls went to In and Out Burger and some of us went to Cafe Zupas. It was good -- but kind of expensive. Then we went to the Provo MTC temple. The temple workers were so nice and friendly and since Jaiden and Emily could only do confirmations the temple worker put them to work delivering names back and forth, handing out towels, and so forth. The person doing the confirmations shared his testimony about how the girls were in the process of releasing many in spirit prison who had been waiting a long long time. It was a neat testimony.

We headed back and stopped in Beaver on the way home and got ice cream at the Creamery. The girls slept on and off on the way home. We arrived home around 8:00 p.m. It was a long day, but neat to go to two temples with the girls and fun to visit on the way there and back!