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And the Fire of Recovery was Kindled

April 24th 2017. I remember waking up that morning and just having the thought in the back of my head that I should go to the temple sometime soon. It was a Monday. There was a large YSA picnic in an adjacent stake and our ward was invited. Contrary to my norm, I decided to go. I was leaving the activity later than I had anticipated, maybe 10:30pm when I got in my car and had the very distinct impression to go to the temple. Now. I was very confused because 1) it was 10:30 at night and 2) it was Monday. The temple would not be open. I drove a couple more minutes and the prompting got increasingly stronger. I remember thinking to myself about a lesson I had where it was discussed that ANY good prompting was from the Lord. Obviously going to the temple is a good prompting, even if the time and circumstances didn’t seem to make much sense to me. So I pulled into a nearby gas station and entered the Temple’s address into my gps. I said a prayer something along the lines of, “I do