22. Today I am grateful for events that bring families together

I love events that bring the family together whether it is my immediate family or includes extended family members. Today, my cousins wedding, was an event that brought part of our extended family together from Scotland and Canada. My cousin’s husband is from California and it was so wonderful to get to know his family.

The wedding was really nice and I am grateful that I was able to be there to celebrate. The wedding ceremony was held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Dumbarton, Scotland. After some photos several of the family members and other guests travelled down to Chorley, England for the sealing at the Preston, England temple. Normally LDS couples who marry in the temple will just have their sealing ceremony at the temple without having a civil ceremony. However, England laws require that a civil marriage is performed prior to the sealing. The civil ceremony was nice with wonderful and spiritually uplifting talks but it doesn’t compare to the sealing. It is hard to explain really but to witness the sealing of this couple and the covenants made between them and God and to hear them pronounced as husband and wife for time and all eternity was a beautiful thing to witness.

We also had lots of fun after! Everyone that went to the temple stayed at the Preston temple accommodations. In the evening we all hung out and ate some yummy Indian food and played games, my favourite being “Do you love your neighbour”. I am grateful for this time I have been able to spend with some of my immediate and extended family.