History behind the Provo Temple visit

On Saturday we went to the Provo Temple to do a session.  We went with Elder and Sister Hunter who are from Canada.  Sr. Hunter has a heart problem so we had to walk slowly so that she did not pass out at this altitude, especially so if we made her walk at the pace that I usually walk - got to get there you know!
In 1974 my ward in Salt Lake City (Forest Dale Ward in Granite Stake,  in Sugarhouse), held a temple trip to the Provo Temple and they even hired a bus.  Bill and I were slated to go on the bus, but he opted to drive there in his own car and take me with him.  Prior to this he had talked about marriage but I had not replied to him or even pursued the subject.  I was too busy trying to get my homework for Grad School done between going to school and his visits to me at my apartment.  Not enough time to even catch my breath during this period of my life.
Well, we went to the temple and got into a session in which only a few members of my ward were present.  During the session, I looked over at him and he seemed to be glowing.  I was amazed at this sight and from time to time I looked at him again and saw that he was still glowing.
We progressed into the Celestial room and he said he wanted to talk to me so we sat down in that beautiful peaceful room and he began to talk to me.  He seemed nervous and was dancing around the subject when finally he said , "Well, have you thought about marriage?"  I was taken aback by it but asked him "Are you asking any questions?" and he said, "Yes!".  So I said , "Well, go ahead and ask" and he said,  "Will you marry me?"  I thought about it a few seconds and decided that he had most of the qualities that I was looking for and realized that I also had some points that were probably not that great, but that we might be able to make this work, so I said, "Yes".  He then reached into his shirt pocket and put a diamond ring on my left hand.  I was really surprised.   We had not gone looking at rings, but he said that it was ok with him if we went to the jeweler in the next few days and pick out a setting that I liked.  Well, this was the first part of "tying the knot with my tongue that cannot be undone with my teeth" which is a saying of my father as a way of pointing out that some things just cannot be undone after they are tied in knots by our speech (tongue).  On June 21, 1974 we completed the Knot Tying activity in the Salt Lake Temple by getting married and saying Yes, to the important question posed to both of us, and thus began our odyssey together.
So you can see, the Provo Temple figures in our life together and 37+ years ago when he slipped that ring on my finger, little did I even suspect that later in life I would once again be in that Temple with Bill and that we would be missionaries about to go out into the field.