Provo City Temple open house and Grandma and Grandpa DePriest

I'm not sure that I even wrote about the time when the historical tabernacle in Provo burnt down..well it did. And just when we thought that all was lost and we lost a piece of history, President Monson announced that it would be rebuilt and restored and turned into a new temple for Provo. We are pretty excited since it is now our temple district. I love this temple because it stands and represents so much. Just when something awful happens and we are knocked down and we see no hope and are having trouble seeing thru the ashes that are falling around us, ALL IS NOT LOST. We can be rebuilt. And not just rebuilt but made and turned into something so much more! We can come back from the ashes bigger and better and more beautiful than ever. Sometimes we don't know or understand why God let's bad things happen to good people. Or we don't know why things have to change. But God does and He sees the big picture and if we let him, He will turn us into something we couldn't even imagine we could become. I have this temple on a beautiful canvas hanging on my wall. Its a great reminder to me. I think my parents really wanted to come and go thru the open house because they feel the same. And let me just say....it was BEAUTIFUL! I was in awe, my kids were in awe and I can't wait to go back. I am also so grateful they let the girls go thru the Bridal room so they can have that picture in their minds and have that goal set to where they want to get married one day.

We had such a good time with my family here. Cody was able to come to. He really wanted to see the temple. And rumor has it he has been meeting with the missionaries that he met at the singles ward. Yes thats right he actually went to the singles ward by himself all on his own, his idea and then invited the missionaries to my parents house for dinner. I really think this was a good trip for him. Chloe was lucky that she happened to have her 3rd grade program while they were here so we all got to go watch her. We played lots of games and spent Saturday in SLC walking around those temple grounds and eating in the Joseph Smith Memorial building and walking around and visiting the newly remodeled Church History Museum (which we for sure need to go back to see it all).