The Temple Open House

 After months of planning and preparation, our time for serving at the Red Cliffs Utah temple open house has passed.

Allen made these assignments in December!  He was working on this project for a very long time.  He put in many many hours of work.  It is amazing how he was so faithful and devoted in doing this.  

Our Stake assignments for volunteers was for February 1 and February 5.  After the last shift was over, Allen sent this letter to many of the people involved.  

Thank you for everything you did to help advertise, promote, and serve as worker volunteers for the Red Cliffs Utah Temple Open House on February 1 and 5, the Little Valley Stake's assigned days.  More than 618 people helped during the two-day service challenge.  Perhaps you were able to notice and observe that GREATNESS occurred as good people served with kindness and patience.  

The work required energy and endurance from both the youth and adults.  With eight shifts, approximately four hours each, people came, and came, and came to help.  It was a beautiful thing.  You are so appreciated, and your hard work creates strong feelings of love.  Be grateful we all live among such good people.  Be grateful for your part in the Kingdom of God.

We had a unique situation in that for a very short time here in St. George, we had the oldest operating temple and the newest operating temple.  That will never likely happen again.  

It was a great blessing to be involved and to have been able to help.  I'm so very grateful for that opportunity.  It was also a blessing to meet Mike and Polly Housley who were our leaders.  Man, they were so inspiring.  

I was so grateful to have had that opportunity.