A Little Piece of Heaven

ElGirlo posted this to a family website:

So there are days that the kids drive me crazy, and coming up with effective discipline techniques is a nightmare. Then there are moments that just completely make it all worth it, and I realize what amazing sweet little people I have the opportunity to know and raise.

Thursday evening we had one of those beautiful times. We had gone to IF to run a few errands, and we were just about ready to head back home when the boys asked if we could go to the temple. We agreed, and took them over to the temple grounds and walked around a bit before taking them through the visitor's center. The boys always love it when we drive by the temple. ElKiddo always gets really upset when we are out of visual range and he can't see the temple any more. Anyway, so as we were walking around he just kept looking up at the temple with big eyes saying over & over, "I tan't bleeve it! I tan't bleeve it!" It was so sweet.

Then we went into the visitor's center, which they have just remodeled in the past year or so, and they put in a Christus statue. A sister missionary greeted us at the door. She was so sweet, and directed all of her comments to the boys. She brought us over by the Christus statue and asked if they would like to hear Jesus talk to them. We listened to the presentation, and afterward the missionary shared her testimony with the boys. She told them that she knows that Jesus lives, and that he loves us very much. ElBoyo jumped in, "I know that too!" After she was done talking with them, she asked if they would like to go up & touch the statue of Jesus. They spent some time walking around and feeling the statue. ElKiddo kept trying to reach up and touch Jesus's hand, but he wasn't big enough. I lifted him up and he tenderly put his hand in Jesus's hand. Then he reached out his arms to both sides and said, "Like Jesus!" I said, "Yeah, doesn't it look like he wants to give you a big hug?" Immediately, ElKiddo squirmed down and went up to the statue and gave Jesus a big hug and said, "I love Jesus!" For the next 10 minutes or so both ElBoyo & ElKiddo stayed there giving Jesus hugs and repeating, "I love Jesus!" There were other people there smiling and watching them quietly. We tried to move on to see the other displays, but ElKiddo didn't want to leave Jesus. As we were leaving he said, "Don't go! I wann stay here."

It was just really sweet to see that they could feel the spirit and recognize that they were in a really special place. Just wanted to share that with you.