Temple Bound!

As I'm sure you are well aware, the Stake Scripture for the year of 2012 is:

 "Let us be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people.  Let us hasten to the temple as frequently as time and means and personal circumstances allow...The temple is a place of beauty, it is a place of revelation, it is a place of peace.  It is the house of the Lord.  It is holy unto the Lord.  It should be holy unto us."  (President Hunter Ensign Oct. 1994)

How exciting that we get to spend so much time focusing on the temple this year, especially as it relates to Young Women!  I'm sure we all feel like we will have done our duty if we can only get our Young Women to go to the temple someday.  This new topic correlates perfectly with our Stake Theme from last year, the Family Proclamation, as they both help us realize our eternal destiny in the Plan of Salvation as daughters of God.  

I got to see the temple's direct influence on my little sister just a few weeks ago.  She has always been a valiant spirit, but the empowering influence of the temple became clear to me as I saw her come out of the temple for the very first time.  I know that no one else who reads this blog knows her, but I think you can tell from the pictures the kind of impact the house of the Lord had on her.  

Isn't she simply radiant??  She is now in the MTC preparing to serve in the Salt Lake City, Temple Square mission.   It has been wonderful to see her go from a Young Woman to a missionary of God.

The girls in our stake are just as wonderful, and YOU are helping them become radiant women of God themselves!  Keep it up :) .