Congratulation Coulson on your mission call! You will be a great missionary.
It is always wonderful to be in the temple. But it was especially wonderful to be in the temple in Logan this evening surrounded by our family. We missed Marnie who was babysitting. But otherwise, all of dad & mom's kids were there. What a unique blessing that is today to have all of your children worthy to be in the temple together. As I sat in the celestial room and watched our family members enter one by one, I thought how wonderful it will be someday to all be in heaven together--and how sad it would be to have a vacant seat there. Let's not have that happen.
It was also a momentous occasion as dad pointed out to me that there were four generations present on both sides of the family (Grandma Jensen, Dad, Chris, Coulson) and (Grandma Gwen, Mom, Chris, Coulson). That probably doesn't happen very often.
Coulson, one of the reasons you go through the temple before leaving on a mission is found in D&C 109:22, "that thy servants may go forth from this house armed with thy power, and that thy name may be upon them, and thy glory be round about them, and thine angels have charge over them."
It wouldn't surprise me if other members of our family, namely Grandpa Jensen and Grandpa Loveland, were present on that occasion as well.
This is a beautiful post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I wish I could've been there!
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