[MUSIC PLAYING] It all starts with love. We hope that all the
people in the Church will be able to have that
sublime experience of doing temple ordinance work
for their own people.
The semester had just
started at school, and I was on my way to work. I noticed, as I
got on the freeway, that there had been
a traffic accident. And I drove on past, not
thinking too much of it, but had an unsettling feeling. So I got off at the next
exit, turned around, and came and parked my car and
then ran across the freeway. And there he was in
his bright red jacket, in the driver's seat. He was unconscious. Highway patrol
came right up to me and asked, "Were you family?" And I said, "Yeah,
that's my son." Bryce was an
honorable young man. He came home from his
mission, and he was on his way to his first day of school. He was excited. He never did regain
consciousness, so we didn't get to
talk to him at all. I felt kind of helpless. It has been an amazing journey
since Bryce has been gone. Right after we came home,
everyone that was there said, "Let's go to the temple." The peace and the healing
began immediately. It's been a great reminder
of our purpose as a family as we have gone to the temple. We never really connected,
until Bryce was gone, how much those that
have gone before us are involved in our life. Now nearly every time
we go to the temple, we're able to take
names of family members. It just has so much
more significance because we feel their love. So that's probably my
favorite part of the temple because I have felt
so many times the joy that I know they are feeling. Just knowing that there's
a connection there, the promises in the temple
have so much more meaning when you consider who
you're doing the work for. It's a witness to me of
our Father in Heaven's love for His children. And I feel, in some way,
it's an opportunity for me to express my love to my
Father in Heaven and my family by regularly going to the
temple to do the work that is being done there. I think that's the
highlight of our whole life, is to see how we're progressing
as individuals, as families, and we're working together
and encouraging one another. Enduring in faith will allow
us to have that great blessing of life eternal with
our Heavenly Father, with the Lord Jesus Christ,
and with our families and loved ones, never to
be separated from them. [MUSIC PLAYING]