i love the church!!

so, as pretty much anyone in the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints, (mormon church) knows saturday and sunday was our semi-annual general conference. for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a conference that happens twice a year where our prophet and apostles and other high up leaders of our church get together to speak to us. every time a conference comes up we are told that we should pray and think about what we want to get out of this conference and we will get our answer during the meeting. mine and rey's number one goal is to get sealed in the temple so we can not only be together in this life, but also in the next! leading up to conference this is obviously what i prayed about since with the marine corps it truly did feel like everything was in our way! well, conference was pretty amazing but there were two talks that talked about the temple that just hit me and my prayers were definitely answered. i think it was during president monson's talk that he talked about this family that lived super far away from the temple and the family knew that they needed to be sealed in the temple so a dad and one of the sons went and worked at these mines for 4 years so they could save money to get their family sealed. eventually they saved up enough money and the family, all but one daughter went and were sealed. the father went and worked another 2 years so the daughter and her husband and child could be sealed as well! I know for me it has felt like there has been so many things standing in mine and rey's way, but i am so thankful and grateful for how many temples we have nearby and how it wont take us 4 years to save up enough money.. all it will take is some persistance and patience and we will end up there! i seriously cannot wait for the day that rey and i can be sealed together for time and all eternity!

after the last session of conference ended rey and i had a serious talk about what we learned and what we both wanted and how we would be able to get there. well yesterday, the day after conference rey said all day at work that was all he could think about was how we could make this happen as soon as possible for us since he still feels like he has a little bit of work to do to prepare himself since he didn't grow up in the church like me. well, a few weeks back the missionaries had asked to stop by, but of course the night they had planned to come over rey didn't get off till way late so we had to cancel. so yesterday, when he was really trying to figure things out they called and asked if they could come over to talk with us. so last night they came over and asked what they could do to help and we decided that every wed they are going to come over and give us lessons to help us get ready and prepare to go to the temple. i am just so excited that everything is finally seeming to work out in our favor. my guess is we wont be able to get sealed on our anniversary, june 11th, due to things going on with the marine corps, but i just need to remember that things will happen in the Lord's time! i am just so thankful to have this church in my life and for all the blessings that have and will continue to come with it. i know that it wasn't by chance that the missionaries called us yesterday of all days to come.. i know that Heavenly Father is answering our prayers and helping us to move closer to our goal of someday getting sealed in the temple!

other than that, everything is going good in the lucero household, other than my massive sunburn.. probably the worst i have ever gotten in my life, but as of right now i couldn't be happier. so i guess that is everything for now!

peace in the middle east,
kristen