Feeling grateful

Yesterday I taught my young women a lesson on, The Importance of Temple Marriage.  I held up a picture of Paul and I on our wedding day in front of the Salt Lake temple and shared with them the Reader's Digest version of how we met, our courtship and wedding day.  I wept tears of joy and gratitude remembering the covenants I have made and knowing Paul and I are sealed for time and all eternity. 
I love my Paul with all of my heart.  He has brought such joy to my life and makes me happy each day.  We have had glorious adventures and devastating heartache.  We have driven thousands of miles together (literally) laughing, talking, planning, listening to music and audio books, singing (well me), and sometimes riding in silence.  Silence, because we are just that comfortable with one another. We have seen sunrises and sunsets, oceans and rivers, mountains and plains. I'm so glad we are on this journey together. 


After my intro to the lesson we watched a sort video with Elder Holland and Elder Packer talking about celestial marriage.  My favorite part of this video is when Elder Holland talks about heaven not being heaven without having his wife and children there with him. 


We read and discussed what True to the Faith says about marriage and relationships, dating and the temple. 


I played a song I found called Marriage for Eternity.  The lyrics talk about how our choice to be married in the temple affect not only us but our posterity. 


I brought the girls two handouts.  The first one was a quote by Bruce R. McConkie that talks about marriage and who we choose to marry is the single most important decision in our lives.  The second is a poem about choosing to be clean and pure and dating righteous young men.   I gave each of them a white satin hanger for their temple dress someday.


I bore my testimony of temple marriage and even confessed that I had been married before.  I told them he was not a member and it was not in the temple.  I told them that it was a bad choice and that I was miserable.  I told them that being married in the temple is the only way.  I knew it because I had lived it. 
I am so blessed.