I have a calling to be a young women specialist over temple trips. That means that a friend and I are in charge of getting appointments and organizing temple trips for the youth in our ward. We took the youth to the Las Vegas Temple in December and had a great experience. For January, we were able to get an appointment at the Cedar City Temple.
It is really hard to get appointments unless you are quick. The appointments are snatched up really quickly and so you have to work 3 months in advance. On January 1st at midnight, the appointments were opened for March and a rush of leaders/parents try to get appointments for their youth. The appointments usually are gone in 5 minutes, so it's crazy!
The appointment is for 16 youth to attend so we have been focusing on the youth who haven't been to the temple before (and their siblings). We had a good group who were excited to go. We met at the Stake Center, gave out family names from people in our ward, gave some guidelines, prayed, and took off for the temple.
We got there, took pictures outside, then went in and did baptisms/confirmations. We had a good experience. When we were finished, an older gentleman came up to the youth and thanked them for taking time out of their schedules to serve in the temple. He was very emotional and I think it touched the youth.
We then had cookies and chocolate milk before driving back home. It was a good trip.
We didn't plan this picture very well. Some of us were on our tiptoes and ended up being floating heads. ;)
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