Graveyards and Temples and Forms… Oh My.

(Also known as I’ve left this blog too long and this is part 1 in a trilogy of 4)

On one of the last days of my time in Utah, sweet  Amanda and a buddy of hers took me to visit the Salt Lake City Cemetery because that, apparently, is how we get our kicks.

Actually it was, as the Americans say, way sweet, and I learned so much about many of our former leaders who are interred there.

(Click on the photos for more info about the respective LDS Leaders....)

The craziest part..................

The craziest part was standing by Gordon B.Hinckley’s grave and thinking about when I watched his burial in the Wan Chai building in Hong Kong as a missionary, thinking how much I would miss this man that I never met in the flesh but who meant so much to me. It meant something to pay homage to him and Marjorie his wife, who my mother loves.

I was also able to visit the Salt Lake Temple and do some work there and later on in my trip .. 

while I was in England I headed to the Preston Temple .

I love to see the temple.. any temple . I love how I feel when I go and the peace visiting those places brings to my life.

All of this graveyard and temple visiting made me think that I might be sublty pointed in the direction of doing some Family History work, especially after I attended a Young Single Adult Family Home Evening and we were learning about indexing – which Ive totally gotten into btw. So I went on a bit of a scout for some marriage and death certificates for my own ancestors, which are still in the process of being looked for possibly as you read this but probably not(thanks Wirral borough council..not)

The borough council.... also the registry office where my parents got married.

Then the day before I left England I went to visit my Nan’s grave who I knew when she was alive and my Grandad’s and Aunty Sandra’s who I did not know......

That’s what its all about really isn’t it I guess? The whole turning the hearts of the fathers to the children stuff - Elijah and his binding power etc etc.

It’s about tying our hearts to our ancestor in a big long chain so we get to keep them forever.