Temple Dedication

I've been home most of the day today. Church was cancelled so that we could attend the new temple dedication. I had procrastinated getting the ticket to go because my records were somewhere and I was caught between two wards. I had tried to call both my bishops, not receiving a response from either of them until the 9th hour. My sweet old (only because he's not in my new ward) bishop finally called late last night and told me to come up and he'd make sure I got in. Yay!
So that was church today- the temple dedication. And I have to share an experience with you from it that I've never really had before. The only other dedication I've participated in was the temple down the street from my house. I was young- I'm guessing around 8 or 9. I don't remember much about it except the white hankie. I had mine ready to go today. Anyway, it was a lovely meeting- some delightful speakers including Elder Bednar and President Uchdorft. Then it was President Monson's turn to offer the dedicatory prayer. While I won't go into the sacred details of what was said, but I can honestly say I don't remember hearing a prophet call upon the Lord with such respect and power. You could truly feel that he was calling upon the maker of the universe and that the maker of the universe was not only listening, but hearing and sending down His blessing and "stamp of approval", so to speak. The temples of this church are truly Houses of the Lord. It was such a great testimony to me of the realness of the power of God, the realness of Him speaking to and through our prophets and the truthfulness of the Gospel. A great day!