Thursday, August 29

I worked all morning and then we had a temple session scheduled with Brother Cahoon in the early afternoon. He made all of the arrangements for us to do our male ancestors endowments and sealings. It was a very sacred and special day. We discovered by accident (through Family Tree) that he is actually related to the VERY relative that he performed the work for and both Anna (through her father’s line) AND to me through my mother’s line. Wow! It turns out we are cousins! It made our instant connection even more special.
Anna posted a photo of the Cardston temple and by chance (there are no coincidences in this story today), her former mission companion /trainer was living 30 minutes away! She invited us to go horseback riding on her grandparent’s farm in Cardston. Anna was able to live out one of her bucket list dreams that night. She has an amazing video of her riding through the fields at sunset on a farm in Canada.

What a great day! We were very sad to see out time in Cardston come to an end. There had been lots of miracles here.

