ANGELS I HAVE SEEN

ANGELS I HAVE SEEN?

   He was not very old. I would guess about eight or nine years. He was sitting on the edge of the reflecting pool, near the Temple, and making little riffles in the water with his finger. I had been watching him a little while. He seemed to be waiting anxiously for someone.

   After sometime I decided to walk over and talk to him. As I approached him I asked him if he would mind if I sit by him a few minutes. He told me no that he did not mind; in fact he thought it would be nice.

   I sat down and he pointed to a couple that were a little ways away and told me that was his Mom and Dad and they were visiting with some old friends they had not seen for a long time. He had told them that he would rather sit by the reflecting pool than go over with them and listen to OLD people talk.

   He asked me if I worked here and I told him no, not really, I was just here to spend some time in the Temple. I explained as best I could what it meant to “attend the Temple.”

   We were talking and a nice looking lady walked up and asked if we would mind if she sat by us. She had striking black hair and a white dress that was so white it almost sparkled.

   I told them I had to leave anyway because my wife would be here in a few minutes to get me. I thanked them for visiting with me and left.

   After I had left the boy stared at the lady, for more than a few minutes, and finally she said,”are you Ok or can I help you with something?” He looked at her and said, “May I ask you something?” She answered that of course he could. She was quite startled when he asked her if she was an “Angel.”

   At first she was not sure how to answer, but she finally told him that her name was Angela, but some people in her family called her Angel. 

   He told her he sure would like to talk to a real Angel; because he had a lot of things he wondered about that OLD people did not seem to want to talk about. He told her he knew she was OLD also because she looked about 30. She kind of giggled and asked him if 30 was really old. He told her yes it was, but she was pretty, so if she was 30 she must be a young 30.

   Then Angela suggested he ask her the questions and told him she would try to answer them, and if she could not, she would try and find someone who would?

   Then she said, “First do you have a name?” He told her his name was Thaddeus, but everyone called him Thad. The reason it was Thaddeus was that was also his Grandpa’s name.

   So Thad told Angela his story:

   I had a baby Sister that died when she was just a few days old. Everyone tells me it is OK because she now has gone to live with Jesus. But when my Grandma died they told me she had gone to live with Jesus also. And when my Uncle Steve died they told me that he had gone back to live with Jesus also.

   Well now I am glad they have all gone to Heaven to live with Jesus, but where is that? Some of the older people say Heaven is up in the sky and some say it is right here on earth, but that we just cannot see the people? In fact some people say that my baby Sister may be right in that Temple over there?

   Sometimes I think I feel my baby sister right here by me--- do you think that is possible? Sometimes that is hard to understand.

   My Grandpa tells me that we may not all be together right at this time but we will sometime in the future. I think that is right, but I sure hate to wait a long time to see them.

   Well Thad and Angela talked for quite a while. She answered most of his questions. She told him, that it sure was possible that he might feel his baby Sister’s spirit with him at times. He probably will not see her but she may visit him quite often.

   She also convinced him that his Sister really could be in the Temple if there was a reason for her to be there.

   Angela talked to him about having good friends and about going to Church. He told her he had been Baptized in his Church. He told her he hoped his big Brother would go on a Mission for his Church, so he could tell him what is was like when he was old enough to go.

   After while Angela stood up and said. “Oh, Oh I have to go, here comes my Angel Husband.” She hurried off around the reflecting pool.

   Well just as she left, here came Thad’s Mom and Dad. They asked who the lady was that he was talking to. He told them it was not really a lady, it was an Angel.

   They all turned to look in the crowd by the reflecting pool for a tall dark haired lady but none of them could see either she or her “Angel Husband.”????? 
WRB
Dec 2015