This week ended with a
fantastic activity all about the temple! (For those of you who are wondering
what could be so special about a building, keep reading.) Everyone got to go on
a tour through the church, learning about temples.
This is a temple. It's bigger
that a church or chapel. In the temple we make covenants with God that allow us
to be with our families for ever. In the temple, we learn more about God's plan
of happiness and more about our Savior Jesus Christ.
In the same way the a high
school diploma is necessary to enter the university, there are steps we take to
prepare to enter the temple. So in the activity, we all got to learn
step-by-step what one does to prepare.
These steps are simple things:
have faith in Jesus Christ, read the scriptures, pray, be baptized, keep the
commandments.... We can hop from one step to the next, toward the temple.
Why is the temple such a worthy
goal? There are a hundred reasons! One of my favorites is simply the feeling
that's there. My favorite room is the Celestial Room; it's a place to ponder
and feel the Spirit. So for our activity, we made a little replica of a
celestial room so that everyone can get a taste of what it feels like to be in the
temple.
Raquel and Alberto Arias
testified to everyone about the power of the temple. They dressed in white
because, in the temple, everyone wears white to represent purity.
I was grateful for the peaceful
spirit that we felt in this activity. And it was so fun to spend time with my
friends here in El Paso!
We ended the activity with food
and "temple games" like building sugar cube temples!
Lots of wonderful people here
in El Paso!
Oh how I'm going to miss them
all!
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I'm excited to see Sister
Hendricks continue to do incredible things here in the Transmountain Ward.
She's the best!
