I'm Going There Someday



This week I made the appointments to have our endowments and sealing at the Washington DC temple in January.  HOORAY! 

Yesterday I received the confirmation letters in the mail with all of the information so neatly spelled out for us too.  It's official.  We're really doing this.  We're really going to the temple!

I'm thirty-six years old.  I've dreamed of this event for at least twenty-four years now.  I have people in my life and people who have been in my life who have helped me get to this point.  I am grateful to my mom for all the guidance she's given and continues to give.  I'm grateful to people like my friend & visiting teaching companion Kim who inspires me to be better everyday.  I'm grateful to my friend Trisha who is my personal cheerleader and makes me smile.  I'm grateful to my Relief Society president Andrea (former) who has believed in me and held my hand a lot in the last year and a half.  I'm grateful for the women of my old ward in Arizona.  They believed in me back when the only thing I had to cling onto was my faith. 

I'm grateful for women from the past, like Marilyn Corbley, Linda Bruderer, Jan Warren, and Twila Ficklin who did their best to instill in me that I am truly worth all that our Father has to offer me.  That I am a special daughter indeed.  Sometimes I didn't always feel the way I should have, and most certainly I didn't always behave the way I should have, but the messages went deep.  I'm forever grateful for all these women...and the countless others who have helped me in this journey.

I am so very well aware that I'm not at a final destination.  I know that just because I'll walk through the doors that I'm not set.  I know that I still must make obedience my thing, so to say.  I know I still have to read my scriptures, pray always, walk in faith, choose the right, serve others daily, and do my best to be a true disciple of Christ.  But I also know that it's only because of my obedience, faith, service, good choices, and trying that I get to walk through those doors.  I'm blessed.  I know my father in heaven loves me.  I know that Dan is an absolute gift.  And I know that this feels so so good.  What a sweet, warm, swelling feeling I have inside knowing that I'm getting there.  I'm thrilled to pieces.  Absolute pieces.


Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles said: 
One of the most beautiful, comforting doctrines of the Lord—one that brings immense peace, happiness, and unbounded joy—is that principle called eternal marriage.
I've been hoping, praying, and dreaming of that immense peace, happiness, and unbounded joy.  I know how I feel now just being civilly married to my sweet Dan.  It's AMAZING.  He truly is a blessing from heaven and I know it and am thankful for it daily.  But at present it isn't eternal.  I get giddy at the notion that we will soon be a forever family.  Absolutely GIDDY, and that is quite a comforting notion indeed.

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