A Wonderful Weekend

This was an incredible weekend.  Friday we went early to the temple and stopped off at IKEA to get some shower gifts.  I love shopping in IKEA because it reminds me so much of Germany.  It is like shopping in the Kaufhof - the German department store - except that store was set up like a real store not a warehouse.  I found a super soft blanket, a cute rattle and then I bought our staples of sparkling black current juice and their thin gingersnaps.

Clyde and I spent the night in Boston, so we checked into the hotel before we went to the temple.  I am glad we found it in the daylight.  It was a wonderful room and just what we needed.  Then we went and reported on our shift.  It was busy evening.  One sister couldn't find her brother.  They were visiting from our of town and she would not believe that her brother would go on a session without her after she expressly told him to do initiatory.  He is suffering from the early stages of Dementia and she was quite concerned.  She was looking all over for him, but was repeatedly told that he had gone on a session.  She was positive that he would not do that.  It turned out he had.  I spoke with her Saturday morning and then with him.  They said they couldn't believe how kind our temple was and how we went out of our way, first of all to get that brother on the session (our Ordinance Workers helped him rent clothes and get him ready for the session) and then keep his sister calm as she waited for him to come off the session - which ran long because of 2 own endowments.  That was kind of our feel good moment - to know that we do go above and beyond the call and do what the Lord wants us to do. 

The reason we spent the night in the hotel was because we had to be back at the temple at 8.  To get home at midnight and turn around and have to leave the house at 5:30 a.m. just seemed overwhelming.  This way we had a good nights sleep and were at the temple ready to serve.  It ended up just being a wonderful experience in the temple as we watched our wonderful young people doing the baptisms.  I love our young people.  They are remarkable.

I stopped at Target on the way home to flesh out my baby shower gift and to buy a reusable Target bag.  I use their bags instead of gift bags because they are nice looking and they become a secondary gift that is so much cheaper than buying a gift bag that will only be used once.  Clyde wondered what I was doing until I went down the gift wrap aisle to get tissue paper.  He saw the price of the gift bags - especially the big ones we would have needed.  He was grateful I was being thrifty.  Jackie was tickled because she loves getting the nickle back when she shops at our local grocery store when you bring your own bag.  It adds up.

Then right after the shower, Clyde helped clean the Church and it was time to go see one of our local high school's productions of "Beauty and the Beast".  One of my seminary students played the Grandfather and did a wonderful job.  I was very proud of him.  I was thinking last night as I was watching Devon, I moved here just before his baptism and he turns 16 the end of June.  I have been watching him grow up to become a remarkable young man.  I have been very blessed.