Cute B was assigned the talk on Sunday in Primary. She did a fabulous job all by herself! Together we got up early on Sunday morning to prepare, and found this blog post (thankful for other bloggers!) with beautiful pictures to tell exactly what she wanted to share!
This is the script we wrote together, and then she did a fabulous job of giving this talk without reading it in her own words! She is a good reader, but slow, and we didn't want her to stand up there and stumble through the words so she drew precious pictures on the sides of the paper, and gave her talk in her own words! She took a cute hand mirror and did a beautiful job (I was told by her Dad B who watched because I was in the nursery with J!).
When I look in a mirror, I can see my own reflection. I can see myself and inspect my face to see if it is smiling. I can’t see into the future, or the past, but I can see this one minute, and my own face.
This year I have had the opportunity to go inside two special places! Special places on this earth include our Temples! My family went to the Draper temple open house and the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house.
For both of these experiences, we were first shown a movie about the history of temples. I learned that Solomon built a temple way before Jesus Christ lived on the earth. I learned that temples have always been an important part of Heavenly Father’s plan.
Since Joseph Smith organized the church on the earth again, we have been a temple building people. We now have 13 temples in Utah!
My favorite parts of the temple include the Baptistry which is always in the basement of the temple. I will turn 8 soon, and look forward to being baptized and becoming a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I won’t get baptized in the temple when I turn 8 because I am being baptized for myself first. Baptisms that happen in the temple are for those who didn’t have the opportunity to be baptized while they were alive on earth. When I turn 12 I will go back to the temple to be baptized for others in those special fonts dedicated for that purpose.
My other favorite place in the temple was the Sealing rooms. We filed in quietly, and sat down. In both temples there was a couple there who shared their testimony of the sealing power, and the importance of temples. They told us to look in the mirrors and try to see the end of the reflection. Unlike this mirror which reflects only one image, the mirrors in the temple are lined up across from each other. When you look into those mirrors in those beautiful rooms and try to see the end, you can’t there is always one more reflection deeper. This is like eternity. We will live forever like those reflections. Sometimes on this earth we forget, and think that we are the only one, that our trials and tests are the hardest, and sometimes we might think we can’t get through them! But if we can remember the reflection in the temple, and that our life really goes on and on and on, and that our family is sealed to us, to help us, then we can keep going realizing that what we are learning here on earth is but one reflection in the mirror of many!
The reflections really didn’t end! They went on and on and on! Next week the Oquirrh Mountain temple will be dedicated to the Lord. It will be given to our Savior to be one of His homes on earth. In this Home, the temples, we have been given the power to seal families together forever so that when we return to heaven we won’t stand all alone in that mirror, but rather we can have our family all with us! I am grateful to know that My Family can be together forever through the ordinances of the temple!
This is the script we wrote together, and then she did a fabulous job of giving this talk without reading it in her own words! She is a good reader, but slow, and we didn't want her to stand up there and stumble through the words so she drew precious pictures on the sides of the paper, and gave her talk in her own words! She took a cute hand mirror and did a beautiful job (I was told by her Dad B who watched because I was in the nursery with J!).
When I look in a mirror, I can see my own reflection. I can see myself and inspect my face to see if it is smiling. I can’t see into the future, or the past, but I can see this one minute, and my own face.
This year I have had the opportunity to go inside two special places! Special places on this earth include our Temples! My family went to the Draper temple open house and the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house.
For both of these experiences, we were first shown a movie about the history of temples. I learned that Solomon built a temple way before Jesus Christ lived on the earth. I learned that temples have always been an important part of Heavenly Father’s plan.
Since Joseph Smith organized the church on the earth again, we have been a temple building people. We now have 13 temples in Utah!
My favorite parts of the temple include the Baptistry which is always in the basement of the temple. I will turn 8 soon, and look forward to being baptized and becoming a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I won’t get baptized in the temple when I turn 8 because I am being baptized for myself first. Baptisms that happen in the temple are for those who didn’t have the opportunity to be baptized while they were alive on earth. When I turn 12 I will go back to the temple to be baptized for others in those special fonts dedicated for that purpose.
My other favorite place in the temple was the Sealing rooms. We filed in quietly, and sat down. In both temples there was a couple there who shared their testimony of the sealing power, and the importance of temples. They told us to look in the mirrors and try to see the end of the reflection. Unlike this mirror which reflects only one image, the mirrors in the temple are lined up across from each other. When you look into those mirrors in those beautiful rooms and try to see the end, you can’t there is always one more reflection deeper. This is like eternity. We will live forever like those reflections. Sometimes on this earth we forget, and think that we are the only one, that our trials and tests are the hardest, and sometimes we might think we can’t get through them! But if we can remember the reflection in the temple, and that our life really goes on and on and on, and that our family is sealed to us, to help us, then we can keep going realizing that what we are learning here on earth is but one reflection in the mirror of many!
The reflections really didn’t end! They went on and on and on! Next week the Oquirrh Mountain temple will be dedicated to the Lord. It will be given to our Savior to be one of His homes on earth. In this Home, the temples, we have been given the power to seal families together forever so that when we return to heaven we won’t stand all alone in that mirror, but rather we can have our family all with us! I am grateful to know that My Family can be together forever through the ordinances of the temple!