I am so excited for the Draper Temple Celebration tonight. On Wednesday all the participants went to the Conference to go over the performance twice. All of the participants is somewhere around 6,00 youth which is pretty incredible. We left our homes a little before 4:00 pm and we returned after 11pm. It has been quite a sacrifice for all of the youth, but especially the Lombardi's, the Maughan's, and Brother MacDonald who have put in countless hours in their behalf by being in charge of teaching them the music and dance steps which isn't an easy task to a lot of youth who have competing schedules with dance, soccer and other conflicting activities. But regardless they made it happen after months of work by practicing twice each week.
On Wednesday night when we were in the Conference Center and we watched everything coming together it was so inspiring and magnificent to see the youth perform so well in their dance and music. I was in awe of how much they had accomplished. One of the things that was cool was to see the youth cheering each other on when they were performing for one another. What a blessing it is to have temples continue to dot the earth and to be blessed to live in a time where we can have the opportunity to do the work for others that they can't do for themselves. This temple will mean something to the youth of this area after sacrificing their time to truly celebrate it coming "high on the Mountain top".
I am so excited tonight to see the final production that they will be doing for President Monson all that are privileged to attend!
