Tara Guthrie

That's wonderful.

When you were talking, it made me think of myself and others that can feel very alone.

at different times and dealing with their work.

Going through the gym call has been an opening opportunity for me to feel how my father's love and that he does know me.

And it's fun to hear other stories where people are feeling the same.

I had another experience at the temple when I was doing sealings.

And this was probably when I was in my 30s.

And I'd come with some ward members to the temple.

And, of course, living on a coast, it was an all-day trip.

Yeah, to come here and go back.

And I remember we were doing a ceiling for this family that had eight children.

So we were all bunched around the altar

together.

All people around you.

And I can just remember how strong the spirit was that, you know, me having grown up in a single-parent home, not your typical family setting, but at that moment, during that sealing, was the first time in my life that I could feel

what it felt like to be part of a family, of a complete family.

And since experienced recently,

just a few months ago, because that sealing was not my own family.

It was someone else's.

But I had an opportunity to do sealings maybe a couple months ago, and I had five brothers that needed to be sealed.

And so I was the father and so the mother.

And just so happened that we had enough brothers in the session before they split it to do it all together.

And so I felt that same strength of the family unit again and the bond of love between all the brothers and the parents in that family.

It was very special.

And I forgot to mention earlier with my church columns that I also have served as a temple worker.