Temples.

Last week, Alek had to go to St. George for work. We decided to make a little trip out of it and spend the weekend down there. On Friday night we stopped to get some strawberry ice cream at the famous Nielsen's Frozen Custard... mmmmm! Then we decided to go walk around the St. George temple. 

The spirit inside of the Lord's house is indescribable. It's so strong that it radiates and feels the whole temple grounds with a calming spirit.  Just stepping inside the temple gate floods me with so many happy emotions. 

I loved how everything was so green there. It made the whiteness of the temple stand out even more. Seriously,  I could not get over how beautiful everything was! 

The flowers were my favorite part. My dream is to have my flower garden look as perfect as the temple's flowers. Got a LONG way to go. I have always said that my dream job would to be the gardener/care taker for any of the temple grounds. Seriously? How awesome would that job be? Spend all day on the temple grounds planting flowers and making sure everything looked perfect! 

After we walked around the temple we found a bench and sat down. Lately, me and my dad's favorite subject to talk about at work is the second coming. We've talked about being prepared, when its going to happen, what things have to happen first, and just how evil the world is today. I don't like to admit this too often but, I'm a big worrier. I seem to think about things to the extreme and they stay in my head FOREVER! 

 I realized as I sat on this bench, in the middle of all the beautiful flowers, staring up at the temple, that I wasn't worried. Anything could have happened at that exact moment, and I would've been JUST fine. I told Al, "I never want to leave. I want to stay here and feel this way forever." 

Then I decided, if everyone took 10 minutes out of their day, just to spend walking around on the temple grounds, the world would be a different place. I know that's not possible, but, it would give everyone a different perspective. I always feel recharged with strength to be able to go back out into the world, head strong. 

After, sitting on the bench for awhile, and soaking in all the happy feelings I could possibly manage, we decided we should probably get going. I snapped a few more pics and we walked out of the gate and got into our truck. 

Literally, 10 seconds later, we weren't even pulling out of the parking lot yet, when the worldly Lindsie came back. Across the road, there was a bigger/over weight lady driving her motorized cart.... walking her dog. Yes, I still find it comical. But, the comment I made to Alek was not very Christ like. Alek, being the good man he is, pointed this out to me and immediately I felt like jumping out of the truck and running back inside the temple gates. AHH I felt so guilty :( All those happy rainbows and butterfly feelings were gone in an instant because of something I said. 

From that point on, I vowed  I would try and be better about the things I do and say. I want my home to have the spirit in it. In the future, I want my kids to be able to come home and to feel safe and happiness just like the temple!