June- 3, 2017

Benjamin Bryant Shafer came at 8:45 am to get his Endowment and will be on the 10:00 am session.

President Harris will be giving his instructions and talking to him.

June 10, 2017

Gary Don Anglin arrived to the Monticello Utah Temple at 8:45 and also Munson Steven Brown arrived at the same time because these two men will be on the 10:15 session to receive their Endowments.  They have to come early to get the paper work and Initiatory done.  We have been very busy today because in the afternoon we had two more own endowments- Mckady Jennette Grover and Anna Lynne Rowley to be on the 3:15 pm session. We also had a sealing at 3:00 pm- Orville Loyd Wilkerson Jr. and Eirin  Slayter and one child (22). It is always special to see how much the Temple is used. The temple brings a lot of joy in our lives. 

Relva Bowring Granddaughter's own Endowment and 6 others

Saturday-- 27 May 2017

At the 10:15 Session Ashlyn Rae Bowring did her own Endowments and I got to give her the instructions on wearing the garment.   I was thrilled that I had this great opportunity because her Grandmother Relva Bowring has been a friend of mine for years.  We don't do much together like our families did many years ago.   We always got Christmas Trees together and our children played together a lot.  They moved or we moved out of the same ward so we stopped doing so much together after that.   Ashlyn is going on a Mission to Billings, Montana.  She is a darling girl and will be  a great Missionary.   She has a special spirit about her and I felt honored to teach her the instructions of wearing her garments.   We are many times one on one and you feel their spirit and hope they feel the Spirit of the Lord through you.  We also had a young man that was going on a Mission his name is Jared Mathew Ward.  I know the wards from Blanding and it was good to see his parents their in the temple also.  His father is Richard Ward and is a physical therapist at the Blue Mountain Hospital in Blanding and have been seen him with my right shoulder.    At 8:00 am Session we had two more male own Endowments.  It is a very special day when we have so many getting their own Endowments.  I am truly blessed serving in the Monticello Utah Temple. We helped with the Am Own Endowments  and 1:00 pm Endowment.

Saturday- 27 May 2017
We had 7 people receive their Endowments today-
8:00 am-Jared Robert Crowley
Glen Stocton Palmer
10:15 am-Ashley Rae Bowring
Jared Matthew Ward
1:00 pm-Steven Lane Pugh
3:15 pm- Maxcell Ulyess Mangum
Talon Quinn Black

Two Own Endowments

Saturday- 20 May 2017

President and Matron Livingston did our am shifted this day but they did have two Endowments both at 10:15 am.  One female- Shannon Raye Johnson and one male- Eric Lee Tooke.  It has been a spiecal month in May for own Endowments.

7:15 session- Own Endowment

Tuesday- 16 May 2017

This is the pm shift and we had an own Endowment he arrived at 5:45 pm- his name is
Brian William Britton , he will be on the 7:15 pm  session.   President Harris did his special talk in the President's office.  It is wonderful to serve in the temples with those who come for their own Endowments. I thank my Heavenly Father every day for these blessings.

Special Experience with Adella Keith

Saturday- 6 May 2017- Adella Mae Tsosie

Adella Tsosie Keith, a Native American came into the Monticello Utah Temple and ask President Harris if his wife Beverly would be proxy for her mother(Zonnie Whitesinger- deceased & father- John Tsosie- deceased) when she would be sealed to her parents today.  President Harris found me and I was so honored she ask me of course I said yes.  Adella first started learning how to do Genealogy in 2012 when I was in charge of the Family History Center.  We were called on a Mission to Nauvoo so I didn't hear any more how things were going with her Genealogy until that day I saw her in the temple.  I was so happy to see Adella doing Temple work for her family members. When we were in the Sealing Room and I knelt at the altar as proxy for Adella's mother and Adella's hand was on top of mine I felt real joy to know that Adella was being sealed for time and all eternity to her parents and what an honor that she ask me. Since I have moved in our new home I am in the Eighth Ward in Blanding, Utah and Adella is in my ward now, it is so fun to see her often at church and coming to do her family names in the temple. 

Two own Endowments then their sealings after

Friday pm- 21 April 2017

This young man and women came to the Monticello Utah Temple to do their own Endowments then to be sealed after, their names are- Carolee Dawn Munson and Thomas Carlyle Hawkins.  This young man Thomas is from Blanding and his parents live in the 1st ward. President Harris and I was in the
Young Single Adult Branch when Thomas changed his life and became active in the Church of Jesus Christ.  It was such a joy to see him walk in that front door with his companion to be and I thought
what a sweet couple.  They both just were so happy to be there. It was a joy to give the instructions to Carolee and see the glow in both their eyes.  I love serving in the Temple.

Three returned Missionaries

April 19, 2017

These three returned missionaries came to the Monticello Temple from Grand Junction and one of them forgot her recommend.  President Harris checked on her and she had a active recommend so he let her in.  She was so thrilled that she could enter the temple.  After the session the three girls were spending a long time in the celestrial  room so I went and relieved the sister that was there so she could go home with her car group and not keep them waiting any longer.  I picked up the scriptures and started to read and two of the sisters came to the door to go out and I spoke to them and told them that it was great to have them there. They hugged me and said that they love the temple.   The third sister ask me what I was reading and started talking to me.  She was a returned missionary from Brazil and is waiting to go to BYU this fall.  I found out later that the other two girls were also returned missionaries, one from Brazil and the other one from Italy.  It was special because this girl I was talking to just hugged me and said that she works with taxes and she had the day off and the one girl said to her, "Come and go to the temple with us." She was thrilled to be there and all three girls were so special with the light in their eyes. It brought back memorizes from our Nauvoo mission with the young missionaries that we were invalid with.  We felt like we were their grandparents. I hope I get to see these girls again before the go to college.

The Young women's talk

Wednesday 29 March 2017

Katie Knight ask me a month ago to talk to the 2nd ward's young women about being modest. It was to be on the 29th of March.  I had made another power point and David Brown helped me again.
I wore a shirt and sweater because the Young Women's Presidency ask the girls to be dressed up in their Sunday best. They would be doing a photo shot and wanted the girls to look their best. When I arrived they hadn't prepared anyplace for me to stand to give my talk. So I gather some tables and they gave me a table cloth to put on it.  I went to the relief society room and got the mike so everyone could hear my talk.  Katie Knight who was a councilor was in levies and I ask her why she was and she said because she has to take down everything and didn't want to get her dress dirty. She knew she had made a wrong decision  but her house is too far away to go home and change.  The other councilor came a little late and she was in pants also and had her little daughter with her. The president was busy doing something and never arrived until my talk was over.  All the girls came with nicely dressed modest cloths but two of them.  Their hair was curled and they looked awesome for their pictures. Katie Knight's daughter showed up a little late and by the time the girls got there is was 20 minutes past the time to start at 7:00 pm. It was a totally different feeling than when I gave my talk to the 8th Ward.  I did feel like the girls listened to me but after only two young women told me how good my talk was.    Katie did bring me a small gift to thank me for speaking to the girls.  I felt like the spirit was helping with the talk and I have noticed at Sundays that the girls are modest in their dress. I encouraged them to come to the Temple and do baptisms because the Lord wants them there. They are coming in May to do Baptism and I hope they will feel the spirit that is in the temple.

My talk in 8th Ward.

21 March 2017

Tuesday night I went and talked to the 8th ward Relief Society's Birthday party.  I spoke on "Covenant Keeping women."  This is one quote that I gave that I love.

   I don't want to drive up to the pearly
gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully,
      tailored clothes, my hair expertly
coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured
     fingernails.  I want to drive up in a
         station wagon that has mud on
the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.
I want to be there with grass stains on my
      shoes from mowing Sisters Schenk's lawn.  I
         want to be there with a smudge of
peanut butter on my skirt from
    making sandwiches for a sick neighbors
children.   I want to be there with a little dirt
   under my fingernails from helping to
weed someone's garden.  I want to be there
     with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks
and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
      I want the Lord to know I was
        really here and that I REALLY LIVED.
                                 -Marjorie Hinkley-

The sisters said they really enjoyed my talk and I hope they felt the spirit that I felt as I gave the talk.  I was their special speaker representing the Temple Presidency and most of the 8th ward knew me. It was good because at the end of May I will be moving into our new home which will be in that ward. It was good for me to meet the sisters early and I felt so loved  by all of them.  David Brown was awesome to help me get my Power Point  ready on the TV screen. It turned out to be a beautiful night thanks to every ones help.
   

A sister from Moab

Tuesday- 20 December 2016

A sweet young women from Moab came to receive her own Endowment in the Monticello Utah Temple today and her name is Anna Estella Andrews.  She will be going on the 7:15 pm session.
I am amazed how many young single adults are well prepared when they arrive and have the spirit with them. It makes my heart full of joy. I could do this calling for every.