Meghan: A Fun Easter Sunday With Friends and Family

We had a wonderful Easter Sunday. Conference was amazing as always. I think my personal favorite talk was President Uchtdorf's called "The Gift of Grace." It's amazing how well he can clearly and concisely explain such a profound and deep doctrine like the Atonement, while at the same time inspiring you to want to do better. Love his talks.

I think Nolan liked the MoTab best ;)

Our friend Carli came and watched the first session with us. It's great to have her around.

After the second session we headed down to Lehi for a family dinner. My Grandpa Hunt's brother Roger and his wife Mauna Sue were at their daughter Kristi's house (my mom's cousin) along with Kristi's sister in law, Gabby, and her four kids (Her husband Tyler (Kristi's brother) was on call at work so he wasn't there). Tyler and Kristi's sister Rachelle's oldest son Zach was also there (he just got back from a mission to Argentina).

(I think Justin is still getting used to the fact that I'm close with not just my cousins and aunts and uncles, but my parents cousins and aunts and uncles!! It makes for a lot of family to remember, but he's doing a great job :))

In addition to my family, we had some other very special guests - a family of four from Sri Lanka that Roger and Mauna Sue met while on the mission they just returned from. There was a mother, father, and two sons aged about 15 and 12 (I think). This family had saved for 15 years to come to the United States so that they could go to the temple. They started their trip in Las Vegas and did baptisms at the temple there. The mother told me it's the very first temple she has been to and was excited to learn that Justin and I were married there.

She planned to be endowed on Monday and then on Tuesday they went to be sealed as a family. I cannot express in words the amazing feeling that washed over me when the mother proudly told me that they were going to the Salt Lake Temple "to be sealed for time and all eternity." Those are words I've heard before, probably a hundred times, but coming from her, from a person that had worked and saved and planned for so long - someone to whom those words meant so much. That was a new and wonderful experience.

Justin talked to them for quite a long time and learned that the husband is in the air force in Sri Lanka so he had actually been to the U.S. in 1998 at which time he had been endowed.

On the way home Justin remarked that we have heard stories like this before, where a family works and saves for years to attend the temple, but this is the first time we have actually personally met a family like that. All the sudden it's more than just a story.

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Mauna Sue LOVED Nolan. They were so cute together!