Aren’t We Lucky, Don’t Tell Anyone!

So, my friend, Jill and her husband Kyle work in the temple here in Nauvoo.  They are temple missionaries, a very coveted, (we are not supposed to covet, so I meant really desirable) position to have.  Not to mention they are the ones with the amazing homes, television, dish washer, garbage disposal, pretty furniture and all. So when her sister Jann was here visiting for their birthday, we all went through a temple session together.  Jill and Kyle were the officiators, and Jann and Emery were the witness couple.  Amazing for all of us to be together after all of these years.  What a sweet tender mercy for me. 

So after our session, Kyle, with President Condie’s permission, got the keys to the temple and took us all through it. Bottom to top! I wish we would have been able to take pictures.

We climbed over 100 stairs going up to the clock tower, the bell tower, and then finally to the very top, touching the bolts that hold the Angel Moroni on to the very top of the temple!!!

Looking out over the Mississippi was breath taking.  You can actually see that Nauvoo is a peninsula!  It reminds me of Kansas City here. The Midwest is so green and rolling hills, farmland as far as the eye can see.

Sun stones on the corners of the temple. Notice the stars in the circular windows, but underneath the ledges as well.  Imagine the pioneers cutting the stone, shaping it, then building this temple, only to leave it and have it  destroyed.

I am blessed to live two blocks from this beautiful, sacred place.