Day 10

Today I had the wonderful opportunity to go to the temple.  I love the temple so so much and it always helps to make my day better.  For some reason, however, I had trouble clearing out my mind while I was in the temple today.  Usually I am very focused on spiritual things, but today my mind was on homework.  You see, tomorrow we're supposed to finish a book called The Makioka Sisters for Japanese literature class.  The entire book is 530 pages and I'm on page 58.  I was so focused on stressing about how I was going to finish the book in time that I was not paying attention to the spirit as much as usual.  My heart felt very heavy because of the stress.  When I finally realized that something was wrong, I decided to just let all my problems go.  What was I going to do in the hour that I was at the temple? NOTHING!  So at that very moment I literally let all my stresses leave my mind.  After that my heart didn't feel so heavy.  To be honest it felt like a huge load was taken from my heart and the lightness continued to spread all over.  I felt the spirit so strongly from that point on.  I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to go to the temple.  The feelings that you get at the temple are like no other.  I'm so grateful to be in Provo and have a temple very close by.  Back home it wasn't so convenient to go to the temple, but now it's within walking distance!  :)