Best Day EVER!

Well, yesterday was officially the best day of my life!! We were able to go to the temple with the Cranes and it was amazing! Seeing Steve and Samantha in the temple has been the happiest experience I have ever had. I was able to go to their Endowment session and afterwards their Sealing. Wow!! Steve gave me the biggest hug in the Celestial Room and just kept saying thank you. The funny thing was that I was saying the same thing to him! You should have seen the smiles on their faces the whole time we were there! Their Sealing was the first one that I have ever been involved in and it was a very spiritual experience. There were so many people there from my ward in Gridley which was awesome! Elder Monson was able to make it as well! Seeing him again was great! He told me about his visit with Mom. I love him to death and we're buds for life. I really can't put into words just how wonderful the whole experience was. I consider it one of the greatest blessings I have ever received to have been involved in my own small way in the Crane's conversion. To see the hand of the Lord so apparant in their lives has strengthened me so much. I know that the power of God is real and that we have been given His Priesthood to perform the saving ordinances we need to return to live with Him again. There is no denying the fact that I witnessed for myself two of God's children sealed for time and all eternity in the House of the Lord. It was real and it was beautiful.

I don't remember if I told you this last week or not, but we were able to set a baptismal date with Jason! We're shooting for March 13th. He was pretty excited about it when we commited him. Hopefully we can make it. He wasn't able to come to church on Sunday and he hasn't returned our phone calls this week. I'm not worried...yet, because he is a pretty busy guy. We should be able to set something up with him again here in the next day or so. Unless something really crazy has happened in his life he should still be on for our date.

I hope all is well at home. Let me know how things are going. I haven't heard from Devin at all yet either. Do you think I could get his email address? That would be much appreciated. Time is out, so I need to be going. Take care until next week. Love you all!!

Elder J. Hammer