Saturday four buses were waiting for us when we arrived at the temple to open at 5:45 a.m. It was a glorious day. The baptistery was filled with youth. One of the boys was Benjamin Acosta from the Chairel Stake, who will submit his mission papers in May. Two years ago, he set a goal to do 1,000 baptisms for the dead before he entered the mission field. He comes every week, sometimes twice to the temple and is getting close to completing his goal. He is tall and good looking and his countenance glows. When I see youth like him I don't worry about the future of the world, or the Church.
Our sweet Hna. Natalia Gonzalez, was at our "greeting station" Saturday morning. A woman arrived who seemed to be "hanging back" from entering. Hna. Gonzalez began to talk to her and learned that this sister purposely tries to go into the temple last so that she could sit in the back of the endowment session because she is embarrassed about the brown birthmarks on her hands. Hna. Gonzalez assured her that the temple is a place of love and acceptance. Then she showed the sister her own hands. Perhaps you will remember that this is our dear sister who was burned by her mother as a child, and her one of her hands is very deformed. It was the perfect answer, and she was the perfect person to give it. It is another testimony that the Lord is in charge of his temple.
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Wendy W. Bentley
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