Saturday, April 12, 2014 Hi friends and family, I will give a little report about our work in the temple. Part of what we do during the slow times of the week is to act as patrons in the temple. That way the temple is still generating completed temple ordinances that go to Salt Lake. We get names from all over the world--including names that are hard to pronounce in either English or Spanish. We can only attempt to sound them out. Some of them even include letters or symbols that are not a part of our alphabet. Often, we take our turn doing vicarious work in sealings, initiatory, and endowments and I perform many baptisms and confirmations. We also officiate and perform the various ordinances. Jeanine and I have been proxies for long lists of husbands & wives, parents or children in the performance of sealings. Now to make my point, it makes me more aware of the pivotal (and all important) change for the better that those sealings can mean to both living and dead. I feel strongly that those who choose to negate that sealing covenant are on shaky ground. That's why I get so emotional about little kids going to the back door to enter the sealing room of the temple or couples who have just been married coming out the front door of the temple. I hope they know what is being offered them and how serious it is. I hope our families (immediate and extended) solve their problems and stay true to their temple covenants. . Last Sunday we were ready for conference when the power went off. The city was felling trees and lost control of one that crashed over the power lines. So, all forms of communications were out all day. Here we had no phones, internet, TV, etc. We have a generator and a well, so we had power and water. We had planned on leaving for the capital when conference was over, but with the loss of power we left early in the day. We had appointments in the immigration office for Monday morning. We took the iPad and watched one session of conference in our hotel room, using their internet. We watched the last session Monday and Tuesday. I don't know what to say other than we better be studying those talks and applying them. We need to have the protection of being yoked up with the Savior as Elder Bednar said. Sorry for the preaching. Love, Dad/Spencer Just one more picture of a bus load of people headed back home from the temple.