Temple trips

Dennis was asked to be the escort for a Latino missionary who came to the CCM and had not been to the temple yet to be endowed. All missionaries that I know of go to the temple before they go out into the mission field.  I felt like it was a privilege to take this elder to the temple for the first time.

We left on Thursday morning at 7:00 am. Rush hour traffic begins early so it took us almost an hour to get to the temple. I did some training to be a temple worker while Dennis went with the elder and his companion and them we were together at the 10:00 session. 

Elder Hernandez and his companion at the visitors center after the session. Elder Hernanadez (with hands on hips) said he felt like a new man after being endowed.  The other missionary has a brother at the CCM right now also.  That brother is going to a different mission than this elder.

James and Doranellie Torrez have been married for 6 years and serve here as senior missionaries like we do. They married civilly and live in Porto Villarta, Mexico (when not on a mission).  She is a mental health worker who helps the Latino missionaries. They have been wanting and trying to be sealed in the temple for some time but with their desire to also serve a mission and other things such as the Mexico Temple being closed they were not able to do it.  

Last Friday they went to the temple and our Mission President who used to be a general authority, President Tenario sealed them together for eternity.  It was a very nice ordinance and I felt it a privilege to be there.   All of the senior couples were at the temple except The Latino doctor who stayed at the clinic to see missionaries.  Elder Torrez serves as a counselor in one of the branches and so his branch president and the other counselor were there also with their wives.  On October 12 they are going to have a celebration of their sealing here at the CCM.  They will rent a huge tent and have it put up out on the lawns behind the gym.  They have hired a caterer and a band and we will all celebrate their eternal love for each other.  

That makes three times we have attended the temple  plus the a forth would be an open house tour.