Family day at the temple

It was this time last year that the kids and I were all set to go to the Detroit temple and participate in a special primary activity. However at the last minute something came up. I wasn't prepared to enter into the temple last year. It was a really rough time in our family's lives but I have worked over the course of this last year to be worthy and prepared enough to enter. Two weeks ago I was given permission from the bishop to enter into the LDS Detroit temple. Faith, Champ and I all attended but the children did a special learning activity on the temple and remained at the stake center. I love to see the temple. I'm going there someday. To feel the holy spirit to listen and to pray. That is what the children learn in the children's primary songbook. I wish I would have learned this as a child and maybe I would be in a different spot today. Faith was able to get her picture taken in front of the temple with a wedding veil on her head. This symbolized the fact that she should strive to get married in the temple. I was able to do baptisms for the dead. I felt a breath of fresh air and joy over come me as I entered up from the water after each of the twenty names were read that I stood in proxy for. I imagined them hearing their names being called loud and clear from Earth and them saying, "Thank you. I've been waiting for so long." I want to go to the temple more often. It is such a place of peace and beauty. The quietness is what I long await for as my days here are filled with loud voices and bickering. There is nothing to worry about when I'm in the Lord's house. I have nothing but time to reflect and ponder on what he has in store for me. Faith, I know you will read this one day and my advice is, "Follow the prophet. Grow up and be worthy so you can enter into that temple also. You will be blessed. I love you."