Saturday- June 24, 2017

Sage Marie Palmer arrived at 8:45 am to the Monticello Utah Temple for her own Endowments and also Nathan Adams Nielson came at the same time to receive his Endowments.  These are choose times in the temple for us. I love to see the glow in the youths eyes as they feel the spirit in the temple.

 Tuesday evening June 20, 2017

At 3:30 pm Debra Jane McKay came to do her own Endowments at the Monticello Utah Temple.  She will be on the 5:00 pm session.  I got the wonderful opportunity to give her the instructions before her Enbowment.  It is always so neat to feel the sisters spirit when they come and see how prepared they are to receive this ordinances at the temple.  

Saturday- June 17, 2017

Kyla Saige Adams came early to the Monticello Utah Temple for her own Endowments. The session she  will be on is at 3:15.  It is always so neat to see these young sisters come to the temple and fill the spirit that is in the temples.

 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.