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On Saturday, our Ward Primary (the children's organization) leaders prepared a very special activity for all of the children and their families.  We all met at the temple and were able to go on a guided tour of the temple grounds learning information about the cornerstone, the landscape, the roof, the installation of the angel Moroni statue, etc.  Did you know the roof tiles came from Spain and are expected to last 100+years?  Things like that were very fun to learn.  The children also got to go into the foyer and be taught by a member of the Temple Presidency and his wife and also sang some Primary songs for them.  The presidency member thought for sure it was a stake Primary because of the numbers, but we assured him it was just one ward – we have over 150 children in our Primary.  I loved having the children enjoy the reverence and beauty of the temple.  It reminded me of this story that President Monson once told…

"The late Elder Matthew Cowley, who was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, once recounted the Saturday afternoon experience of a grandfather as hand in hand he took his small granddaughter on a birthday visit—not to the zoo or to the movies but to the temple grounds. With permission of the groundskeeper, the two walked to the large doors of the temple. He suggested that she place her hand on the sturdy wall and then on the massive door. Tenderly he then said to her, “Remember that this day you touched the temple. One day you will go inside.” His gift to the little one was not candy or ice cream but an experience far more significant and everlasting—an appreciation of the house of the Lord. She had touched the temple, and the temple had touched her."

I love this picture I took of my 3 handsome boys outside the temple that day:

I also like this one that Jacob took of me and Derek:

Jacob loves to take my camera anytime I'll let him – sometimes annoyingly so because he begs and begs and begs until I relent.  But when he captures things like this (see below) I feel so glad I handed it over.  I'll always cherish this picture now…because of the subject and because of the one who captured it.