Giovanna goes to the temple

Last Saturday we woke up early and drove to North Salt Lake to leave Bianca with Mindy. After dropping her off, Ale, Giovanna and I headed to the Bountiful Utah Temple where Giovanna would perform her very first ordinance in that holy place.

Any member of the church who is at least twelve years old may be baptized for the dead after obtaining a recommend from the bishop or one of his counselors by completing a worthiness interview. 

Ale has been saving some of the hundreds and hundreds of names he's been finding all these years of genealogy specially for when Giovanna was old enough to be baptized for them. 

It was such a special moment entering the temple with my beautiful young woman. I might have cried a little when Ale extended his hand to take Giovi into the baptism waters. I still feel goosebumps remembering it. 

"The salvation of our dead ancestors is essential to our salvation. Our lives are closely tied to our ancestors' lives, for we cannot become perfect without them nor they without us"

D&C 128:15