By Pam Ellis
When you’re young, you often don’t see the Lord’s hand in the experiences you have. But as the decades pass, as you reminisce on the details of your life, you have this sweet knowledge that the Lord was orchestrating things all along. The trick is to allow Him: to follow where He leads, to drop the heavy burdens at His feet, to do His will. Then, on the other side of 70, you can smile.

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By Pam Ellis
Alan and Mary Harter have been serving as ordinance workers in the Las Vegas Temple for the last fourteen years. Temple involvement is what anchors their family.

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By Pam Ellis
Dorothy Graff Winder says that serving in the temple just might be a “genetic thing” with her. She tells of her great-grandfather, Dudley Leavitt, from Bunkerville, NV, who encouraged his 16-year old daughter, Betsy, (Dorothy’s grandmother) to get her temple recommend so that she might accompany him to the St. George Temple. Grandma Betsy went on to serve as an ordinance worker for over ten years at the St. George Temple, as did Dorothy’s parents, Elmer and EmmaRene Graff.

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By Kathryn Blose
I was endowed in the Provo Temple in 1979 just be-fore I was married to my first husband. I’m sure I heard the workers there invite me to come back often to the temple, but even though I lived twenty-five minutes away, I went there maybe once a month. I sure wish I knew then what I know now about the blessings of frequent temple attendance. I know now that if I’d been going often to the temple then it would have softened the hardships that I endured during that time.

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By Judy Scott
Daily there are precious moments in the temple that reach deep inside and touch your heart. A company of over twenty family and friends witnessed just such a moment when the doors of the Sealing Room opened to let one-year-old Jacob Scott enter.

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by Mark Severts
Eleven years ago, in Ft. Myers, Florida, doctors were convinced Melisa Pugh would not live. Raging encephalitis had taken its toll.
In just five days, the brain infection had destroyed her ability to communicate, had numbed any awareness of her devoted husband and family, and reduced her to a near-vegetative state. She would remain on total life support for the next three weeks.

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