Youth Trips are fun!!! (June 27th)

Youth temple trip

I just got back tonight (June 27th) from our Ward's Temple day and also the Youth's Baptisms for the dead trip. Our Temple is Monticello. It is 3 hrs away from our house in GJ.

I was put in charge of organizing the youth to be at the church next door to the temple to be able to babysit for the members attending the session starting at 9am. I don't care, btw, if that was a run on sentence. lol. So, the YM and I decided to go to one of the presidency's cabin in Monticello and stay the night before. So we did. Pretty simple. We hiked, played games, ate, told stories, and had a fantastic testimony mtg to end the night. It was really a great lil trip for us. Unity. We are few in number, but we are strong. Comparatively speaking.

So, Sat morn we woke up at the B*TT crack of dawn and got ready and went to the church next to the temple with all our lil snacks and games and shows to be ready to tend about 25 lil kids. Well, we tent, hahaha thas funny, (like lent you a dollar, but for tend kids.) from 9am to 12pm, whilst the parents all went thru the session. We had about 75 ppl from our ward in the session. Pretty dang good. Then us boys set up the food an tables and drinks for all of us and them to have lunch. We then ate very rapidly only to wait for an hour and a half for the temple to be ready to accommadate us for the baptisms which we had scheduled since 1998 or something. Really it was since January though. So then, finally when we get in, they tell us they dont have any men names to be confirmed for us. Odd. Wierd. I am not complaining, I am just telling the story, Okay! So, they tell us that right after we baptise the boys, they will sit on a chair at the top of the stairs, all soaking wet, and will be confirmed for those exact same names/ppl. I have never before seen or heard of that before, although that seems the right way to do it. Lol. So thats what we did. After I baptised the boys, I stood in the water whilst they were confirmed. Then we drove home after having had a good trip. Small temples, are um, well, unique.
--Dan