When we arrived at the temple, we jumped out and waited in the parking lot for about fifteen minutes for our bishop. He wasn't late, but we were an hour early!! We decided to spend our time walking the Spokane Temple grounds. Small, yet incredibly beautiful while walking the perimiter of the temple we walked past a Killdeer bird with a nest full of four eggs right in the shrubs!!! We watched as she tried to guid us away from her eggs. She was beautiful! Just today there was a testimony on what a perfect place to nest, the temple grounds! Anyway, the bishop arrived and we all entered the temple.
Waiting for about two seconds on the comfy benches in the waiting room, we enterd at the desk. We all quietly walked through the glass doors to the baptizimal font and had a "personal dresser" give us our white jump suits. I entered the doors labled "women" and found myself in what I would describe an angels dressing/bathroom. We all changed into our jumpsuits (ever so comfertable, good enough to just sleep in)and put our hair up in white scrunchies. We then filed out to the squishy chairs and benches by the font.We were given little pink papers of who we were getting baptized for. I counted ten papers that I was given. The oldest person that was in my "packet" was born in 1874, so I put her first. I waited and watched as all my friends got baptized and the spirit was soo strong that I couldn't stop smiling! I was called to get confirmed for different people than I was getting baptized for. It was amazing. It was like I was the person who has been waiting years and years for this moment.
Finally I waded into the warm font that was held by twelve beautiful oxen. I grabbed Weston's arm as he held the wrist of the hand that I was to plug my nose with. Ten times I was dipped into the water, happier than ever. After Weston tapped my back twice, I exited the font with a wet heavy jumpsuit and the biggest smile. Sister Duce handed me a white towel as I slopped back into the dressing room. I waited in my now wet jumpsuit to enter the shower. Rylie came out of the shower, we smiled at each other and I gratefully entered. I took off my jumpsuite and took half of my shower time trying to figure out how to work the shower. I jumped out, got dressed into my black skirt with pink flowers and white long sleeved dress shirt with my white heels. I blowdried my bangs then went watch the rest of the baptizims.
We all left the temple feeling clean and fresh and went back to our cars to go to the famous Country Buffet. With growling stomachs, we rushed into the resturaunt and filled our plates with everything. We ate for an hour, and I was so bloated that I felt that I could just fall over. I switched cars and rode with Bohni, Michael, Megan, Savana, Quinn, and Megan's dad and mom on the way back to Hamilton. We talked and listend to music and laughed on our ride home. They dropped me off and Bohni and I were all alone because Mamma was in Lewistown and Hagan went to a friend's in Stevi. We played some video games and than crashed on my moms bed.
Sister Elison gave us a ride to church this morning. We are all sooo excited that she is pregnant, but sadly she is moving to Germany.We wraped up today with church and hung out at 500-2 Stonegate drive. I had such a great experience and can't wait to do it again. The Bishop said that altogther, we baptized about 110 people on Saturday and I figured that we will all be pretty popular in heaven!
