Sunday, April 29, 2007

I Love to See the Temple

Brandon and I were lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to the temple on Friday. We had Brandon's cousin watch the kids because they live right there in I.F. Anyway, Kameryn was throwing a big stink on the way up that she didn't want to go to Tom and Mel's house because "I do know Bogan...I do know Ashlyn!"
Trying to get Kameryn to understand why I wanted her to go be babysat I told her "Mommy and Daddy are going to the temple to show Heavenly Father how much we love him. We need you to go to Brogan's house so we can go." Immediately she responded with "But I wanna go to da temple." Her sincerity and pleading nearly broke my heart, but here comes the good stuff:
We hadn't spoken anymore about the temple since this incident (40 min. prior) and all of the sudden as we pull of the exit to go to the temple Kami says "Dat Jesus' house?" pointing to some grain silos. I told her it hasn't and pointed out where the temple was. I, first of all, was shocked she even knew the temple has Jesus' house. We sing "I love to see the temple" all the time to her, it is amazing how much of it sinks in and how much, as children, they already know.
Back to the story, Kameryn was disappointed she couldn't see the temple and so we promised her we would take her to see it when we got back. True to our word, on our way home we made sure to swing back by the temple to show her. She loved it. She kept saying that it was where Jesus was, and Jesus loved her, and Jesus made spiders for her, and it was so pretty, and, my personal favorite, "it so tall. It tall as da mountains! Me no reach it". Anyway, it was sweet to hear all her thoughts, and her knowledge of the Savior's love for her. We had to sing "da temple" song and she talked non stop about the temple (Jesus' house) from I.F. to Shelley where she finally fell asleep (that's about 20 min)
Of course, the talk about Jesus' house has continued, non stop. Yesterday she had made up a song about how Jesus' house was as tall as a mountain and she couldn't reach it. She also made a temple out of her blocks. It has been a really sweet, although obsessive, time in our house recently. And, just so you know, next time we go to town we are getting Kameryn her very own picture of "Jesus' house" for her bedroom.

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