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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

HANA'S TEMPLE SEALING

On Tuesday, July 5, 2011, our beautiful daughter, Hana Rebecca Burris, was sealed to us for all eternity. We were blessed to have Phil’s mom, Wray Beth, and her husband, Ernie, visit for the week. It was a gorgeous day and one never to be forgotten. Weary eyed, we all awoke at 5:00 AM to prepare for the day. Since we just celebrated the 4th of July the night previous, we were all quite exhausted, but the excitement of the day kept our fires burning and by 6:30 AM, we were out the door.



The travel to the Seattle LDS temple took us 1 hour and 15 minutes, not too bad considering the traffic in Seattle. Wray Beth and Ernie were the children’s escorts. The Seattle temple has a beautiful waiting room for children so after they got dressed in their whites; they were able to keep busy with the fun toys supplied in this gorgeous room.


While Wray Beth and Ernie were dealing with our four kiddos, we were having our paperwork taken care of and then changed in to our temple clothing. Once changed, we anxiously sat in the sealing waiting room for our little ones to be brought to us. MaKayla, Amornthep and Brandon had all been sealed to us before, but they are blessed to witness the sealing of their other siblings. This is a special treat, since most children only do baptisms at the temple once they are twelve, and usually do not enter a sealing room until they are endowed and getting their own marriage performed or sealing a couple and/or family for all time and eternity via proxy for those that have past on.


Of course, the first voice we heard was little Brandon. Our hearts leapt as we couldn’t wait to see them all in their whites. Sure enough, one by one, they came in the waiting room and just looked angelic. We were soon escorted to the sealing room, where all three of us knelt down at the altar, Hana to our side, hand in hand. Our sealer, through the power of the Priesthood, sealed Hana to us for all eternity. Of course, tears flowed and while the sealer spoke, she gazed up at us with the largest smile, just beaming, squeezing our hands as we squeezed back. In the sealing rooms, they have gorgeous mirrors on each side of the room. When you look in one mirror, you see yourself and your family go on forever and ever without an end. Hana and the other kids were just enthralled with this and I believe it really made an impact to Hana about what forever truly means.


After the ordinance was completed, we went outside to get pictures and later Phil toured the grounds with the kids. They were all so touched by the incredible beauty and powerful Spirit the temple holds. Later that night we went to a Mexican restaurant to celebrate and we all crashed a tad bit early. It was an amazing and powerful day!

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am so happy to hear that you was able to make the day so special for Hana :) When Steve and I got married we had the boys come up and give me a kiss too so that they felt like a big part of it :)

Samantha