Remembering What it's like to be Four!

It is interesting to my mind now that I knew that as a four year old child I found such great comfort when I saw a photo of the Salt Lake Temple on a baggage label on a round sticker placed on my parents suitcase in their closet.

Oddly I was drawn to that picture when my mother scolded me; I retreated to hide and seek solace in her closet and sit by that suitcase underneath the clothes hanging there.

I never knew the connection to that until much later in my years as an adult. It was the only connection I had to the temple. All I knew is that that suitcase had the Salt Lake Temple on it and it was a source of comfort and peace. It also had the words on it around the medallion on the label "Salt Lake City, Utah"




Mind you I couldn't read but I knew what it said from my memory bank years later I connected the dots and realized it was like my Family Home Evening lesson to have the picture of the temple. It was a powerful teaching tool.

There is wisdom in the counsel from the prophets to have a picture of the temple in our homes. Our children can look to whom they can be eternally happy with our eye on the temples.