A Temple Dedication and Migraine Relief!

I wanted to write about the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Dedication that we attended on Sunday morning. Wow! It was incredible! We went on Sunday morning and the speakers were so good. It's amazing how much easier it is to really pay attention when you don't have 2 little wiggle bodies squirming around next to you. (Don't get me wrong, I am soooo grateful to have those 2 little ones keeping me busy - but they really are still working on their reverence skills!) I loved all the talks, but especially Elder Bednar's talk. I really love talks that compare and contrast things.

World vs. Temple

hectic, hurried - stillness

noisy, loud, unruly - quiet, orderly, peace

self-centered, selfish - selfless service, love

good as evil, evil as good - all good comes from God

pollution of ALL types - purity

influences to break family and marriage - families bound for eternity

differences in class - equals, unity

elite learning to few- mysteries to all who seek

philosophies of men are answers - restored gospel

It reminded me of one of my favorite talks ever. It was The Joy of Womanhood by Margaret Nadauld.

Remember this quote:

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity."

Love that quote! Okay, back to the temple dedication. I love the temples so much. I love that I am sealed to my children for eternity because of them. I love that my children have been inside the temple and that many times Hema has talked about Vela's sealing - he remembers it! That is so awesome to me. I am so grateful that right here in Utah, we have had 2 recent temple open houses that our children could go to and 2 dedications that they opened up to those if us who live around here an never would have gotten tickets otherwise! What an incredible experience it is to see the Lords work moving forward and temples truly dotting the earth.

Now about the migraine...Yesterday, I woke up and felt so sick I was certain that I had some terrible strain of flu. My head ached, my left eye felt like it was going to pop right out of my head and I was so nauseous I threw up. My mom informed me that that I had a migraine. Yikes! I am going to be much more sympathetic to people who get migraines from now on. Anyhow, after some meds and a 4 hour nap I woke up feeling fantastic! The kids were dying to get out so we hit Thanksgiving Point Children's Garden, The Farm and the Dinosaur Museum. What fun! We LOVE living so close to TGP!! Little Hema took this picture of Vela. He loves using the camera. Vela is old enough this year to ride the ponies by herself. We also found 3 more gnomes at the dino museum. Fun!

(You better look close they are tiny!!)

Then after I got the kiddies in bed, I decided to take on a couple sewing projects that I've wanted to try. I made Hema and Vela flannel PJ bottoms and they turned out pretty cute. I didn't even have a pattern. I added a little ruffle to Vela's because I thought they didn't look very girlie. Then I made one more of those cute skirts for Vela.

I feel like I got so much done yesterday, maybe I should get a migraine everyday! - Then again maybe it was the 4 hour nap!