Baptisms for the dead...What a blessing!

Words that would describe this week: a relief, amazing, happy, and satisfactory. I was able to run up to the top of Y Mountain this week after several failed attempts. What a great feeling I had while running, and the sense of accomplishment was more than words could describe. It is something to beat someone else in something be it school, sports or money. It is another thing when you can beat yourself, when you can push yourself to another level of self performance to reach some worthy goal. 

On a more spiritual note, I had the great opportunity to go to the Provo Temple with my older sister Katie in order to do baptisms for the dead. I baptized my sister, for the female names in our family, and I was likewise baptized for some of the male family names. What a great feeling that was. I was really nervous going into the whole thing. I wanted everything to go well, and it did. Constantly, I fought back the desire to speak in French for that is the language that I am most used to when it comes to baptisms. Luckily for me, the temple workers were understanding and very kind. 

So what does this have to do with what I have been studying in my Doctrine and Covenants class? It comes down to the Priesthood and temples. Now, understandably the temple Priesthood is different than the Priesthood given to for example Deacons, and Priests. I am just talking about the Priesthood that we have today in order to do the temple ordinances. With the Restoration came the Priesthood, and also temple ordinances. What a blessing it is to us in our lives that Joseph Smith revealed the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it was taught by Jesus Christ himself. With the Priesthood, and more importantly with the Temple Priesthood, we can be sealed together as a family for those in our very own family who may not have and the opportunity themselves to accept the Gospel while they were here on earth. My sister was baptized today for my grandma, Grandma Mack. I miss my grandma. What an amazing lady, and though she didn't accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ while she was here on earth, I felt so good being able to baptize her today through the intermediary of my sister. 

It was a very emotionally charged day, and one that I will never forget.