this could really be a good life...: My Someday

Since before I can remember, just about every church lesson has been focused on the temple and the importance of staying worthy for that someday when you could attend the temple.
Well my someday came!!!
This past Thursday I had the wonderful opportunity to go through the Salt Lake Temple.

Just in case you didn't see it on Facebook, Twitter and instagram I thought I'd put it on my blog as well : )

It was an amazing afternoon spent with a lot of people that I love.

My parents,

Aunt Nancy,

Uncle Wayne,

Cousins Anne and Jim,

my sisters Jamie and Jenn,

brother-in-law Spencer and

two of my best friends from high school Karli and Emily

all joined me in the temple.
I am truly blest to have such a great family and amazing friends!

The temple is truly is the House of the Lord.
I can not wait to attend the temple again and again.

In my preparations for attending the temple I read a lot of great quotes and thought I'd share a few of my favorites with all of you.

"Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father."

—Brigham Young

"When you come to the temple you will love your family with a deeper love than you have ever felt before. The temple is about families."

—Richard H. Winkel

"What a glorious thing it is for us to have the privilege of going to the temple for our own blessings. Then after going to the temple for our own blessings, what a glorious privilege to do the work for those who have gone on before us."

—Howard W. Hunter

"The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house."

—Russell M. Nelson

"I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you."

—Gordon B. Hinckley

"It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life."

—Boyd K. Packer

"At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can 'see' things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known."

—Boyd K. Packer

"I urge all who have not yet received these greatest of all blessings within the walls of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them."

—James E. Faust