"How was it cleaning the cleanest building in the world?"

I am visiting my sister and her husband called the other night asking if we wanted to go help clean the Gila Valley Temple. Absolutely I do. It took about an hour to do the whole thing and it actually was the cleanest building. It was shocking and a big deal because I actually found some dust. Other than that small patch, there wasn't much to clean.

It was a great experience. When I normally clean, I usually have tunes blaring or I am singing to myself. I did neither. I was in the Lords house. While I went around dusting a very clean building, there were several things that came to mind.

One had been part of the Relief Society lesson on Sunday. The teacher asked us to remember sacred truths we knew to be true... about a "go-to event" that we went to that made it so we would never doubt our testimony of our Savior. I thought about the experiences I have had that I often return to in my mind. I remember thinking before that I didn't have enough faith because I often returned to these events to buoy up my testimony in harder times. But these are sacred true things I will never be able to deny. These are my go-to events.

Another was the young women's theme that we used to recite every week in class.

We are daughters of our Heavenly Father, who loves us and we love Him. We will stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things and in all places as we strive to live the young womens values, which are: 

Faith

Divine Nature

Individual Worth 

Knowledge 

Choice and Accountability 

Good works

Integrity 

& Virtue. 

We believe as we come to accept and act upon these values, we will be prepared to strengthen home and family, make and keep sacred covenants, receive the ordinances of the temple, and enjoy the blessings of exaltation. 

It was something I hadn't thought about in a long time. I recited it to myself again and again trying to make sure I got the subtle changes that they have added over the years. It was also very pressing to me while I stood in one of the sealing rooms looking at the mirrors reflecting each other into eternity. I realize the purpose of those rooms are to seal families for eternity. That to look into them, make sacred promises and also see your spouse and family reflected so many times is everything I want. 

But I stood there alone. 

I couldn't count how many times my own reflection looked back at me. 

My reflection was eternal. 

I am eternal. 

I am a daughter of God.