Oh, That I Were An Angel -- In My Dreams

   Well, I feel compelled to share an amazing dream I experienced early this morning! (June 11, 2016.)

   Nancy has been on my case the last couple of weeks – or so – because I’ve been watching a lot of Kung-Fu type movies and war movies, including 13 hours. So you might expect that this amazing dream would be so related. But, nope, pretty much just the opposite.

   I wish I could convey the whole feeling of the dream, but it was inspirational and peaceful.

   I was with a man and his wife and their daughter (it felt like they were my relatives), but I didn’t recognize them. Because I can’t remember the exact details, I’ll need to do some dream interpretation here: I was trying to explain to them how we build our spiritual lives step by step, principle by principle. Some have their spiritual lives built higher than others, but we need to be building our spiritual edifice as a family. I was talking to them about how we gain a testimony about a certain principle and how that then becomes part of our foundation and edifice, and we build upon that.

Angel Moroni atop Star Valley LDS Temple
 (Jerel Olson Photography)

   Then we look down and see how much we have built and say how could I have built so much, and I replied that we didn’t do it ourselves. God has done most of the hard labor (the Atonement). He has seen our efforts and has glorified our efforts and has helped us build – more than we could ever do ourselves. His Grace is like that.

For me, the most profound feeling was that I was singing all of this and praising our Father in Heaven as I taught them. The dream really was a powerful musical.

In fact, it was like Moroni and his trumpet sounding to the whole world the Everlasting

Salt Lake Valley looking south from above the State Capital.

Gospel, but instead I was singing. I have never song as strongly and as powerfully as in that dream as I taught them.

    I could feel that the couple in the dream understood that they needed to work together as a family to build their Eternal Family – step by step.

   Then it was as if I was taking them on an airplane ride above the Salt Lake

Valley, but there was nothing obscuring our view straight down as we saw the beautiful Salt Lake Valley all green and vibrant – as if after a late-spring rain. Then I’m thinking that maybe we were actually flying (as in angels) because of the unobstructed panoramic view. And the feeling was glorious and spiritual. There was no fear that we were going to crash, like in most of my dreams.

   Then Nancy woke me up! But instead of being mad about being awakened during such an amazing dream, I was happy that I had had such a marvelous experience – and feeling the Marvelous Work and Wonder!