What Fun!

Myrna wrote: Who was it that threw-up? Was it Ryan and was it because he can't ride in the back seat without getting carsick?

Guess what? Auntie used the freeway and I actually got home just 15-minutes late for my meeting.

It was great being with all of you and celebrating with Whitney.


Kirsten wrote: It was Jacob.  He only threw-up three times and only in the car.  Was fine the rest of the day.  so strange....

Yea for Auntie!  Glad  you had "fun" at your meeting... :)

love you lots; thanks for coming and celebrating with us!

Myrna wrote: Great! Now I do feel guilty. It was the honey-bread that I gave him. I only gave him a spec but I guess it was too much. Dumb Grammy. Kiss him for me and tell him I am sorry.

AN, OH MY WORD TEMPLE TOUR !!! (Helen's information)

AN, OH MY WORD TMEPLE TOUR !!!‏


From: Helen Trauntvein
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:37:32 -0700

Dearest folks: am pleased you all had such a pleasant week-end and safe trip home. Pray you found all well at home. Just to let you know- I did go on a Draper Temple
tour this a.m. My ticket was for the 8:40a.m tour. As I am really not that familiar with the area nor what traffic would be like, I left home about 7: 30 a.m.( would rather be early than late.) I arrived at the Stake Center indicated on my ticket, after having some wander time with the scenic tour, at about 8 a.m. The ushers/hostesses are superb, many of them missionaries from the Utah North Temple Square mission.

The video they show in the chapel at the Stake Centers is really informative and short. Then you get on a very nice Lewis bus and go to the temple.Each bus has a big sign in the front window in the color you have on your ticket. As soon as you get off the bus at the temple you go into a canopy, heated area for to walk to the temple. Well as for the temple- WHAT WONDERMENT !! There are many, many oil paintings throughout the temple and in the cultural center of another Stake Center next to the temple where refreshments, good cookies and small indiviual bottles of water are on a very elegantly dressed table, with center pieces and other decorations, which to me, looked like they could be small celestial spheres. With very soft piano music of hymns being played by a very lovely sister. There was a harp also, but noone playing it this morn. PAY ESPECIALLYCLOSE ATTENTION TO THE CHANDELIERS- THE ONE IN THE CELESTIAL ROOM IS TRULY FROM ANOTHER WORLD, AS ARE A FEW OTHERS PRIOR TO GOING INTO THE CELESTIAL ROOM.

My neigbor went last Saturday evening- she said it took them 3 hours on the tour. Today, realizing it was early in the a.m we started at the Stake Center at 8:20 a.m and I was out of the temple by 10a.m - having spent considerable time in the very lovely decorated cultural center and just looking and feeling. They tell you in the chapel at Stake Center and again by the hostess on the bus- the tour is a silent one, to maintain the reverence for the setting. By the time I left there were more people coming on the buses- to be sure in the later afternoon and evening there will be many more people.

The walk way between the temple and the Stake Center for refreshments is also enclosed and heated. On the north side of the walk way after one comes out of the temple there is a small area where I asked if I could go look out over the valley, and the usher gave me permission. MY WORD WHAT A SCENE !!!

Along the route printed on your tickets for going to the parking lot designated on your ticket there are large signs on the right hand side of the rode indicated--OPEN HOUSE.
It is truly quite a wonderment- I could easily see the Jordan River Temple across the valley- tried to find the Angel Moroni on the Quirrah temple but was unable to locate it.

Whenever you come just ENJOY, ENJOY AND ENJOY.
Love you folks much. Just me. HT

Also notice all the sego lily flower reliefs in the ceilings of some of the rooms- up in the areas where the chandeliers are. Enjoy.

L H and Myrna Trauntvein 2/03/09

To: Helen Trauntvein

Thanks for letting us know what we have to look forward to. Julie will be pleased to know all of this in advance so she can plan for the girls. She wants them to have a spiritual experience. She still remembers the great feeling she had at the Manti Temple open house and at the dedication. It was something wonderful to remember forever. This sounds like it will be a great experience. 

They have been refurbishing some of the historic chairs in one of the sealing rooms in the Manti Temple. Everything wears out and so the chairs were getting shabby-looking. They have put sego lilly needlepoint on the seats and backs. They are very beautiful so I can imagine what the ceilings must look like. 

Isn't it wonderful that we have such beautiful places dedicated to the work of the Lord? I am always impressed with the beauty of each individual temple. It is sort of like the beauty of each individual child. What one would you give up? NONE.

All that beauty and refreshments also? 

Thanks for all you do for us. I felt sad that we had to rush off. I did make the meeting and was only a few minutes late. I got there in time to take the photo of the commissioners accepting their piggy banks and signing the documents to make our county part of the Utah Saves campaign. So all was well.

Thanks for sharing all of this. I am printing it off for Tim.

Love, M