Go to the Temple

This last week my Mom and I headed to Salt Lake for a girls weekend with my sisters. We were celebrating our birthdays. I turned 30 in September my sister Robyne just turned 35 in October and My sister Angie will turn 40 in November.
We were able to eat out, get pedicures, go to Ikea, visit, laugh and go to the Draper Temple.

Saturday morning we decided to do an Endowment session at the Draper Temple. I don't know what was wrong with me that day. I woke up with my emotions all out of sort. I have had some trials lately and didn't feel like being at the Temple. I'm sure Satan had a lot to do with that. I was fighting a sick stomach that morning and to be quite honest Endowment sessions make me nervous. I just always feel like I am screwing things up. Needless to say, my heart wasn't in the right place. I was sitting in the chapel with my Mom and sisters and I just wanted to get out of there.

I decided to go to the bathroom before the session started and take a little breather. There were so many things that I could have prayed for and answers I wanted on my behalf that day. But as I was taking my break I said a little prayer that I would put my selfish desires and wants and negativity aside and really focus on the person who's work I was doing. We had brought some names to do with us. These were people from my Mom and step Dad's side. I went down to St.George a week before and had done the Initiatories on them
after them sitting at my house for way too long. I knew how badly these needed to be
done and I needed to put myself in the right spirit to do them.

I sat back down in the chapel and immediately my emotions took over me. I started crying and couldn't stop. We hadn't even left to start the session and there I am bawling.I couldn't explain what had come over me. All I can say now is that it must have been the spirit.

I know that we all go to the Temple for many reasons. Sometimes seeking peace, searching for answers or enlightenment or feeling closeness to a loved one lost. All of these great reasons of course. And the Temple is a great place to receive inspiration and revelation on all of these. But I would encourage everyone to take the time every now and then and put your own wants aside and really focus on the person who's work you are doing. That is sometimes where the true blessings come from. I'm so glad that is what I did on that day. I didn't leave feeling cheated for not receiving answers for my problems. I just felt gratitude for doing a service for someone else and a renewed belief that our answers come in their own time wether it is at the Temple or not.