Friday, August 14, 2009

Temple

The temple that our stake goes to said that the youth can get temple recommends from one of the bishopric members and go do Baptisms for the Dead whenever they want to. So when I turned of age I got a recommend and we started going to the temple weekly. Sometimes my brothers and sister would miss a week. Well I didn't miss one. I kept going every week for six weeks and one of those weeks just me and my mom went. She went and did initiatory while I did Baptisms. There were alot of people there. Usually there is just about forty people but this time there was more like 100. Me and my mom were a little late so there was standing room only. And at this point I hadn't had any breakfast. So I was standing there and I felt like I had to sit down or else I was going to throw up or something. And then I thought, what if I faint? And all of the sudden I just started to get black spots in my vision and I thought, I'm going to faint. And then suddenly I was on the ground. It felt like I had just lied down on the floor and went to sleep and I was thinking, am I on the ground, wow this is embarrassing. and then one of the girls that were there said" Mary, you just fainted." And they sat me up and started asking me all kinds of questions. And they gave me some orange juice. Jesse's friend, Kali and her mom were there, and also our other friends, Zoey, Raigen, Brighton G. and Kimi F. Well they took me out to the hall and lied me down on some benches and left me with a really nice lady. When my mom came by to come pick me up she saw me on the benches, she said," Oh, your waiting out here?" and the lady told her that I fainted. So she took me home and also took me to McDonald's. I did get confirmed before we left but not baptized. They figured I fainted because I hadn't had any breakfast and I had locked my knees. These last two weeks the temple has been closed and I had to break my streak but it was a really fun experience and I will start it up again soon.

1 comment:

Bruce said...

Good job Mary - I'm proud of you for your determination to serve in the temple.