Attending the temple...

On Friday, October 2, 2015 Gage was able to go through the temple for the first time with his father, Aaron, by his side and many family members. He really loved the spirit that he felt while he was there! Gage commented on how nice it was to feel peace and just leave the outside world stresses for a while.

Gage was able to prepare for his temple endowment by attending a temple prep class, and even was able to teach an Elder's Quorum lesson about temple work. At first, I thought it was strange for Gage to be asked to teach a lesson about temples in Elder's Quorum since he had not even taken out his own endowment yet. Looking back I realized that it was a great blessing for him, and helped him to be prepared to go to this sacred place.

What a handsome young man!

Proud momma, dad had already left to pick up some of our other kids to go to dinner with us.

Brick Oven for dinner afterwards, invited a few more along to celebrate with us!

Here is the other table of guests!

Gage enjoyed attending the temple, and was able to make a few more trips with friends and family over the weeks prior to leaving on his mission. It helped to have members of our ward family working at the temple on days he went, he was impressed at how many people volunteered their time to be there.  He felt like being in the temple helped him to keep focused on having the spirit with him at all times. One of his favorite trips was when he went with his sister and cousins to do baptisms for some family names. 

Lea, Andrew, Gage, Tyson, Kylee