Temple Trip

I am a YW specialist in charge of the youth temple trips.  I had been helping the YW leaders by getting appointments for temple trips and so they decided to put me and another sister in charge of the trips.  It's fine for me because organizing things is something I enjoy. It is so hard to get appointments though.  We don't have a temple right now because St George Temple is being renovated.  So we get appointments either in Las Vegas or Cedar City.  With the Manti Temple also closed for renovations, the Cedar City Temple is really busy.  I get on the computer at 11:55 pm on the last night of the month and at 12:00 midnight, appointments open for the next available month.  It only takes 7 minutes for them to all be taken.  It's so crazy!

Our first trip was to the Las Vegas temple. Our appointment was for 16 youth.  We have to bring our own priesthood bearers to perform the baptism and the confirmations, so that can be tricky. After our ward Christmas party, we met up, loaded in vans, and drove to Las Vegas.

Courtney and I are 2nd and 3rd from the left, standing up.

This is a beautiful temple and the people were so kind and nice.  The baptismal coordinator talked to the youth.  They had to find the weirdest name and the oldest name.  Then he talked to them about how these names represent real people.  It was cool.  We had a priest who was doing baptisms for the first time.  He was nervous but did a great job.

Usually, they only let each youth be baptized for 5 names but, toward the end, we were so far ahead of schedule that they let us finish all the names we had brought. (There were names from a family in our ward who had the names for 3 years waiting for a youth trip to get the work done.) The youth at the end of the line were able to do 10 or 11 baptisms.  It was so cool and the kids had a great experience.

After we were done, we went to Raisen Cains to eat dinner.  It was wild and crazy but the kids loved it.

We have these trips planned each month.