Now that they've made a trip to the Chicago Illinois Temple with their parents, the four children of Allan and Jude Sadler share their sealing date as well as their birthday.

Exactly one year after joining the Church, Brother and Sister Sadler and their quadruplets were sealed as a family on Dec. 16, 1995. Ashley Lauren, Jonathan Edwin, Zachary James and Jacob Allan are 4 years old, and they and their parents are members of the Joliet Ward, Joliet Illinois Stake.Patrons and workers alike were thrilled to see the Sadlers in the temple, according to Willard B. Barton, president of the temple. The children had such a happy time in the sealing room, they didn't want to leave, Pres. Barton reported.

The children played an indirect role in the conversion of their parents.

The birth of her quadruplets led Sister Sadler to join the local Mothers of Multiples Club. In April 1994, she was asked to run for the office of first vice president of the club. Upon election, she served with club president Nicole J. Walker, a member of the Church.

"Although we were merely acquaintances before that, the positions that we served in required us to work quite closely together and we became good friends," Sister Walker recalled.

As their friendship grew, they began to discuss gospel principles. Then Sister Walker invited the Sadlers to attend Church. "Jude wanted to know if the kids would be welcome at our Church," she said. Sister Sadler told her that in their previous church, the children had been welcomed when they were cute babies - as long as they were sleeping. But when the four children got older and busier, other members of the congregation began expressing disapproval over their attendance and often cleared out of the pews around where the Sadlers were sitting.

Sister Walker told Sister Sadler she was in for a treat if she would attend an LDS service. "Families sit together," Sister Walker told her friend. "Children are a very obvious part of the congregation."

The Sadlers enjoyed the meeting they attended and accepted an invitation to meet with the sister missionaries. They were baptized a month later.

Sister Walker called her friend "a golden contact," and added, "She was always asking questions about the Church and absorbing the answers like a sponge."

"It was as if I had heard it before," Sister Sadler said. Her husband said, "It just felt right."

Sister Sadler said their children love to go to Primary, and have quickly learned a lot about the Church.