Training

We have had a wonderful 3 days.  There was nothing new, but it was a great spiritual high anyway.  Everyone has been so kind to us.  The trainers were fantastic.  We loved them so much.  Brother and Sister Walker.  He was a former mission president, a former president of the Salt Lake Temple,  and the former  president of the England MTC in Preston. He is the sweetest man ever and had so many wonderful stories to tell us.  She is oldest daughter of President Hinckley.  She was so much fun and had all kinds of great stories about the prophet that husband just kept pulling them out of her.  She seemed a little reluctant to talk about him, and was worried that we would grow tired of her personal stories, but we couldn't get enough.  

Over lunch one day I asked her to tell me the story of how she and her husband met.  They were both widowed, and had no plans to remarry.  His daughter went to her and begged her to go out to dinner with her dad.  It was a really cute story.  Then he told the story of trying to get an appointment to see her dad, the prophet and ask for her hand in marriage.  When he asked to talk to the prophet church security was at his side immediately insisting to know what he wanted.  He was embarrassed when he finally had to tell them what he wanted.  The head of security said, "Well, why didn't you say so!"  We were all laughing so hard.  

Today her gave us a tour of the temple, and it is amazing.  Since they are not allowed to give tours of the temple we called it a "walk about."  This temple is 260,000 square feet!  They perform 5500 marriages a year.  Do the math on that!  They have 3500 ordinance workers.  It is the most complex temple in the world. It is an amazing system they run there.  They have their own water well, and supply, and their own generators.  They have wood working shops and all kinds of other crafts down below for repairing and maintaining the temple.  We saw the room where Talmage lived in the temple while he wrote “Jesus The Christ.”  the whole experience was so great.  We hated for the 3 days to end.  But we are excited to fly out in the morning.  Not excited about the trip, but excited about the landing.