Our Love is Eternal

I have really enjoyed the talks we have had the last few days. I can see that you are maturing spiritually and have a better eternal perspective. I am excited for you and for us. You really are a strength to me and help me in so many ways. You help me think through ideas. You help me believe in myself. You help me through your example. You help me be creative. You help me serve the Lord. You really are a wonderful woman and wife. I read something today that hit home to me about the love I feel for you and the bleesing of being sealed in the temple. It also brought the words of the sealing ordinance to my mind. It was something Parley P. Pratt said about his wife and the eternal perspective. This is what he wrote about what he had learned from Joseph Smith. He said,


“It was at this time that I received from him the first idea of eternal family organization, and the eternal union of the sexes in those inexpressibly endearing relationships which none but the highly intellectual, the refined and pure in heart, know how to prize, and which are at the very foundation of everything worthy to be called happiness. …
“It was from him that I learned that the wife of my bosom might be secured to me for time and all eternity; and that the refined sympathies and affections which endeared us to each other emanated from the fountain of divine eternal love. It was from him that I learned that we might cultivate these affections, and grow and increase in the same to all eternity; while the result of our endless union would be an offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, or the sands of the sea shore. …“I had loved before, but I knew not why. But now I loved—with a pureness—an intensity of elevated, exalted feeling. … I felt that God was my heavenly Father indeed; that Jesus was my brother, and that the wife of my bosom was an immortal, eternal companion; a kind ministering angel, given to me as a comfort, and a crown of glory for ever and ever.”


What powerful words. I am grateful for all the blessings the gospel brings into our lives. I know we were meant for each other and I thank Heavenly Father for bringing us together and the promises given to us if we remain faithful. I truely do love you with all my heart!