Sunday, November 28, 2010

Our Temple is now dedicated




After many busy weeks of preparation for the Temple Dedication -- cleaning up the town, cleaning BYUH, many stakes preparing for the Cultural Celebration, organizing the Temple open house & meeting thousands of people who went through the Temple prior to its dedication. The week finally came. Presidents Monson and Eyring, along with Elder Cook came to Laie for the Temple Dedication. It was a wonderful culmination of lots of hard work and effort by many members.

We attended the PCC night show, “Ha, the Breath of Life” the same night the General Authorities attended. As we got there, we could see the decorated PCC golf cart type vehicles parked in front of the Ambassador Restaurant. I ran back to the truck to get our camera. And ran back just in time to see them drive away. The parable of the ten virgins came to mind. President Monson was greeting people and everyone was taking pictures and it was fun to watch as a group of Missionaries sitting off to the side. President Monson had only been seated for a few minutes when he took off the large, special lei that he had been given and put it over the head of a lady that was sitting right in front of him. At the end of the show, the cast gathered together and sang two songs for the special guests. President Monson stood as they sang. The performance was exceptional, it was obvious the performers wanted this night to be special. We were told that some people who normally performed couldn’t do it, because they were too nervous to dance in front of the Prophet. I loved watching President Eyring. I can only imagine how tired he was, but he was so full of enthusiasm as he cheered at the end of the show. You could tell by the grin on his face that he loved the performance.