Guess who we saw at the temple today?<\/p>\n
For the past couple of years I have attempted to be a regular temple attender. \u00a0I had had several tough years during and after going back to school to get my bachelors. \u00a0So I thought I would try and tempt the lord to give me some blessings from regular temple attendance. \u00a0The first thing that happened was I got laid off, from a pretty lame job. \u00a0Then I ended up in St. George teaching a couple of classes at the college. \u00a0That was fun, but it wasn’t what I really needed to be doing to provide for my family. \u00a0 About 6 months after getting laid off, I was blessed with a good job. I still believe it was Emerson’s praying that really got me the job. \u00a0But, I will blame some of it on the temple attendance.<\/p>\n
Some time in the first quarter of 2012, my cousin Martin and his family were sealed in the temple. \u00a0So I asked him if he wanted to be my temple buddy and help keep me motivated to go regularly. \u00a0So he agreed and we have been going ever since. \u00a0We had been going to the Jordan River temple on Tuesdays because we could go before 6AM, but only on Tuesdays. \u00a0Then the schedule changed at the Jordan River Temple because of the new movie. We realized we could go to the 6AM session at the Salt Lake temple and the timing for work would be about the same. \u00a0So about a month ago we started attending the Salt Lake Temple.<\/p>\n
Our second time in the Salt Lake Temple there was a lady, with a group of friends, that looked really familiar and then I realized it was a lady I had seen speak at General Conference last April, April of 2013. \u00a0Martin even remembered her name, Sister Elaine Dalton<\/a>. \u00a0That was kind of fun to see a prominent member of the church in the temple.<\/p>\n This week we changed the day from Tuesday to Wednesday because of a thing I had going at work. \u00a0While in the waiting room I recognized one of the Ladies from Sister Dalton group walking in, and sure enough there was Sister Dalton followed shortly behind. \u00a0What a coincidence seeing her again. \u00a0Then after the session Martin and went to the name desk to pick up the family names we had just completed. We notice Elder Uchtdorf<\/a> and Elder Eyring<\/a>\u00a0stading about 40 feet away in front of the stained glass panel in the main section of the entrance to the temple. \u00a0There were a couple of security people close by. \u00a0We asked the young women at the names desk how often things like this happened. \u00a0She said “I have been working here over a year. And this is the first time I have seen anything like this. \u00a0They are doing temple president training.” \u00a0When I turned around I also saw Elder Cook<\/a>. \u00a0As we walked back to Martin’s work, were our cars were parked. We talked about other times we had seen and met general authorities of the church.<\/p>\n Just before reaching the car I got a text from Richard Coffy, A fiend of mine from South Carolina, who is now working in Salt Lake. \u00a0The text said “What are you doing in City Creek?” \u00a0 I texted back that my cousin and I were just getting out of the temple. \u00a0He said he was surprised to look out the bus window and see me walking across the street.<\/p>\n Seeing all of these people is just one of the blessings I am getting from regular temple attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guess who we saw at the temple today? For the past couple of years I have attempted to be a regular temple attender. \u00a0I had had several tough years during and after going back to school to get my bachelors. \u00a0So I thought I would try and tempt the lord to give me some blessings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,12,69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-happy-thought","7":"category-journal-entry","8":"category-testimony","9":"entry"},"modified_by":"D. Gardner","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32Jie-e8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}