Day 12: Today is our last day of Temple lessons in celebration of the Open House of the Gilbert Temple that opened its doors to the public today! If you would like to take a tour of the temple, reserve your tickets here. 12 to 1 – Temple Count Down's Begun series has been an […]
Read More »Day 11: Today, we have been at the ER at the Children’s Hospital for the past 5 hours. Our 1 year old child was sick and our family doctor sent us to the ER to get some tests done and see if they could figure out what was wrong with the little guy. After a […]
Read More »Day 10: It was another late night getting back from a scouting meeting, but we gathered our kids together, said a prayer and began to talk about “The Instruction Room” in the temple. We reviewed what the room was used for such as a place to learn about the gospel and about our Father’s plan. […]
Read More »Day 9: Today we started our temple lesson by watching this video below called "Temples Are a Beacon" about a family that sacrificed a lot to get to the temple. After the movie we talked about the sacrifices that this family made to get to the temple. What faith it must of taken to be […]
Read More »Day 8: Today we watched this inspiring video about John Rowe Moyle. Amazing! It is about 15 minutes long, but well worth the time to understand what it means to Act and to be Acted upon as he faithfully served as a stone mason on the Salt Lake Temple. So many sacrifices were given while […]
Read More »Day 7: Today, we talked about "The Sealing Room" and started with this video below. (Start at segment 7:21.) After we shared this part of the temple movie again, we talked about our Wedding Day. We were married in 2001, the summer of the attacks on the twin towers. What a blessing it was for […]
Read More »Day 6: Today, we shared the segment about "The Celestial Room" in the temple (start at 6:00). You can find the video here. We talked about how the Celestial Room is a place of meditation and prayer. It is a very peaceful and beautiful room. After the video, we talked about how to pray by […]
Read More »Day 5: Today we shared a segment from Day 3's video about "The Instruction Room" starting at 4:51. We talked about how this room is where we learn more about the gospel of Jesus Christ. (this is a good opportunity to review "The Plan of Salvation" with the visuals from Day 1) We talked about […]
Read More »Day 4: We were out and about most of today and I wasn't sure if we would get a chance to teach the kids about the temple. Our two youngest children had fallen asleep before we got home. We tucked the little ones into bed and had a lesson with the two oldest. Our lesson […]
Read More »Day 3: Today was another fun night. Who said you could only have Family Home Evening once a week? I love it that we have been getting together as a family every night and teaching them about the temple and then doing an activity. Tonight we watched this great video about the different rooms in […]
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