Awww Shucks
That may be the cheesiest blog title of all time :)
The girls melted this afternoon as they shucked all the corn for dinner.
They came in sweating and red-faced.
We had Papa Dave, Mama Linda, Uncle Steve and Aunt Tami over for dinner and family night tonight. We had a delicious dinner! We provided the corn on the cob, pulled pork and coleslaw sandwiches. Grandma and Grandpa brought fresh fruit and a 7 layer salad (our favorite!!--minus Emmy) and Uncle Steve brought fresh peach and fresh strawberry pie. Nothing says Summa Time like fresh fruit pies!!!
For family night we talked about the blessings of the temple.
I shared part of the definition of the temple in the Bible dictionary...
A temple is literally a house of the Lord, a holy sanctuary in which sacred ceremonies and ordinances of the gospel are performed by and for the living and also in behalf of the dead. A place where the Lord may come, it is the most holy of any place of worship on the earth. Only the home can compare with the temple in sacredness.
Whenever the Lord has had a people on the earth who will obey His word, they have been commanded to build temples in which the ordinances of the gospel and other spiritual manifestations that pertain to exaltation and eternal life may be administered. In cases of extreme poverty or emergency, these ordinances may sometimes be done on a mountaintop (see D&C 124:37–55). This may be the case with Mount Sinai and the Mount of Transfiguration. The tabernacle erected by Moses was a type of portable temple, since the Israelites were traveling in the wilderness.
From Adam to the time of Jesus, ordinances were performed in temples for the living only. After Jesus opened the way for the gospel to be preached in the world of spirits, ceremonial work for the dead, as well as for the living, has been done in temples on the earth by faithful members of the Church. Building and properly using a temple is one of the marks of the true Church in any dispensation, and is especially so in the present day.
I am grateful every day for the blessings of the temple in our family.
In other news, Esty announced at dinner that he ordered socks with the silhouette of the Rexburg Temple on them and to watch for them in the mail.
He wasn't kidding.
