An incredible and spiritual day

Emmi has been thinking or a long time about going through the temple to take out her own endowments.  It is a big decision for a young adult.  Knowing Emmi, this was decided with a lot of contemplating and prayers.  She chose to go to the new Provo City Center Temple.  Neal and I drove down with Jeff and Annie and picked up Emmi at her apartment.  We were at the temple at 10:30 for all the preliminary things that needed to be done.  Lynda Ann had brought her biological grandparents names and so I did the initiatory work for the two grandmothers while Annie and Emmi were doing other preparations.  The live endowment session began at 12:00.  It was an emotional and spiritual session.  I can't say for sure, but I hope that mother and Annette were allowed to be there.

 Funny story about Jeff.  He said that he had to rent a pair of pants because his old ones didn't fit him.  He rented a pair, went to his locker and changed.  Much to his dismay, the pants he rented didn't fit!  They were a bit too tight.  So he went back to get a bigger pair.  He gets back to his locker and realizes that he put his locker key in his other pants that he had already put in the laundry.  So, he went to the laundry place and had to pull out pants one after the other looking for his locker key.  Thank goodness he finally finds the pants with the key!  Then he and Neal get up to the chapel and realize that they didn't stop to get a name so back down they had to go.  But all was well and we all got on the session in time.

This picture was taken as we were leaving the temple and walking down to the parking garage.  It was so neat to look up and see the angel Moroni majestically atop the temple.

When we got down in the parking garage we were stopped by an ambulance pulling in to a door leading to the lower level of the temple.  We don't know what happened but obviously something serious and an ambulance was needed.
After the session, we were all very hungry so we went to Red Robin and had a delicious dinner before heading home.

All in all it was a wonderful day!  We are so proud and pleased with Emmi's decision and are so grateful that we could be there to be a part of this special day in her life.  We love you Emmi and are happy with the example you are setting for the rest of the grandchildren.