A special moment with our Grandson Derek

Saturday--  25 August 2018

On this day our Grandson Derek Joseph Bonney came to Monticello Utah Temple to receive his own Endowment.   He and his parents, Ken and  Tami Bonney drove to Blanding Friday about 5:00 pm, President James and Beverly Harris were serving am and pm shifts that day.  We stayed up that night late to visit with them since we didn't get home until 10:30 pm.   On Saturday morning about 10:30 we drove to the Monticello Utah Temple to do our pm shift and then Derek and his parents would be there around 12:30 pm to visit with and Ordinence Worker who has spent 12 years in the area where Derek will spend his mission in Mozambiqua, Africa and he will speak Porsche on his mission.  He has his Grandpa's middle name Joseph and wanted to be here with his Grandparents. Jim is in the Monticello Utah Temple Presidency and so he got to give a special talk to Derek about the temple.  We got Lloyd and Lois Bayles to cover our position at the temple because they were shift coordinators and we went on the endowment at 3:15 session with him.  It was so special for me to sit with our daughter Tami in the session.  Jim sat by JB and Derek was on the front row with his father, the escort.    We really appreciated Derek coming to the temple so we could be with him otherwise we wouldn't been able to be with him.  He is so prepared to go in the mission field and we are so proud of him.  The people in Mozambiqua are very black, is what the Ordinence couple said and Derek is fair and blond and about 6 feet -2 inches tall.  Derek said it helped him so much to talk to the couple that answered his questions and is so excited to go, he doesn't go until October 14, 2018.  The wife really stressed to being obedient to the mission rules.  Well it was a special day for us as Grandparents to be with Derek and his parents.  I love the feeling you feel as you are in the temple and how close you feel to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ it was a perfect day and then the family left to travel to Orem right after and we stayed while the Delta Ward and Bishop Chris Johnson cleaned the temple.  It was great to see Chris Johnson because he was a really good friend to Jed, our son in high school.  He also talked Jed to be coming a dentist so now Jed is a dentist in Wisconson and Chris is a dentist in Delta, Colorado.