I was very excited to hear that there was going to be an Order of the Temple in a real castle. I am also excited to hear that you are the candidate. I wish I could be there, but duty calls and I must be elsewhere, I know you will enjoy it.
Thank you very much, and I wish you could have made it as well. It was a great surprise to find out that I was going to be recieving that degree in a castle. I was really honored to know that there were three Past Grand Commanders that were present tonight as well. One was the Past Grand Commander of Iowa, and the other two were Past Grand Commanders of Texas (I know for sure one was Texas and almost totally positive that the other was as well).
I know the team doing the work and I know that they have worked hard that you may have a wonderful experience.
I gotta say this about the team that put on the degree tonight: absolutely awesome!! Even if this event did not take place in the castle, there is no way that I would forget this experience. Aside from how beautiful and meaningful the degree was, the delivery of it was just amazing. They did a really good job and I was very blessed by getting them as the ones doing the work for me tonight. Honestly looking at the whole thing, the whole castle thing was just icing on the cake. I just cannot get over how great a job they did on the delivery. They made it as much, if not more, a memorable experience as knowing that I got it done in a castle.
Know that I am there in spirit.
I heard a couple of guys talking about that there is an idea to maybe do this maybe annually. If that does happen, you should be able to get your chance to see this take place in the near future. I know that any candidate that gets lucky enough to go through the degree in that castle will have a very memorable experience.
Thank you for the congrats