Saturday we took sister Dorothy Moore to the Louisville Kentucky Temple shown above.  It is nearly a carbon copy of the Nashville Tennessee Temple that is in our mission.  President McKee had to get First Presidency approval for us to to to this Temple because it is out of our mission.  The Nashville Temple is closed right now for cleaning so Sister Moore and the other young couple that went for sealings, chose to go to Louisville.  Ironically they are both about equal distance from Morgantown.

We worked with Sister Moore all last year and thought she was about ready to go when we left.  Unfortunately she didn't really progress much while we were gone.  As soon as we got here, she got excited to go again and we have helped her do everything to prepare.  She told us today after we started home that she probably wouldn't have gone without our return.

Sister Peterson served as her escort and while they were doing the preliminaries, I was able to help with some sealings as they were quite short of patrons.  It was a very rainy day and the day of the biggest event in Kentucky, the Kentucky Derby.

The Temple had some beautiful gardens on each end.  We were especially taken by this tree with its beautiful white blossoms.  This has been a special week with the special blessing of helping this sweet sister go through the Temple.  She comes from a family of 15 children.  Her parents and most of the children joined the Church some time ago but none have remained active until we got Dorothy going.  She is the first to go through the Temple and she is anxious to do the work for her family members that have passed on.

We have also had some other interesting adventures this week.  We visited a fellow that has a wolf for a pet.  We were a little nervous about visiting there the first time because of the wolf.  It was a beautiful animal and very intelligent.  The member had him very well trained and the wolf came and offered his paw to shake.  He had beautiful eyes and you were almost a little nervous to look right into them.  Sister Peterson also had a goat try to jump into her lap.  While I was saying the prayer at the same place, their big German Shepherd jumped up in the chair I had stood up from and began licking my hands and rubbing on my back.  Bandit, the dog's name, is quite playful and hard to keep off us.

Elder and Sister Peterson - Having some wonderful adventures in Kentucky!