Ogden Temple Dedication

18 Years ago I had the opportunity to go to the Mount Timpangoas Temple Dedication.   Today we had the opportunity to attend the LDS Ogden Temple Dedication.  The children have to be 8 yrs old to go so only Dillon got to go with us.

It was very neat and it made me think of my 1st time I went 18 years ago.  

Today we got to hear from Pres. Monson and Elder Eyering.   We went to the 10am session and it was fun to get to take Dillon with us!

I Love To See The Temple

I love to see the temple I'm going there someday to feel the Holy Spirit to listen and obey.


On Labor Day we had tickets to go to the open house of the new Brigham City Temple for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  You can learn more about the temples here. 

It turned out a lot of people came that day since they didn't have work or school. This is a special time to come and take a tour of the temple before it is closed to the public and only those worthy members with special recommends can go inside.

We took our friend Janet and the kids and we all stood in line for 3 1/2 hours before we were able to go inside and see the temple.  The kids did so well for having to wait so long in the hot sun.  Afterwards we took the kids to Pizza Hut for dinner before we made the drive home.

Dan and I went to the Temple Dedication on Sept 16 with my mom.  It was so wonderful to attend that.

We are looking forward to the Ogden, Payson, and new Provo Tabernacle Temples in the next few years!

Here are some of the pictures we took.

The start of our waiting

Janet

Brigham City Temple

Cooling off

I love to see the Temple!

This morning I got up and went to the Draper Temple with Keli Wright.  Keli was my MTC Roommate with her companion when I went on my mission.  We saw each other a few times after the mission and then lost contact.  2 years ago, just as she moved back home to Virginia we reconnected on Facebook.  When she announced she was coming to Utah, and wanted to go to a couple of the temples, I told her I would love to go with her.

So we made arrangements, and I was able to get a babysitter to come over at 7:30am so that Dan could go to work.  I left our house at 5:45am and went and picked Keli up at a friends house not far from my place.  We made it to the 7am session.  I am glad that it worked out to see Keli as it has been about 8 years since we last had seen each other.

I had a great time!  And I hope we can do it again sometime!
Thanks Keli for going with me.

Draper Utah LDS Temple at 6:40 AM

I love to see the Temple!

Yesterday, Dan and I were getting ready to leave for the temple when, Jennilyn told us that she wanted to go to the temple too.  Dan told her she had to wait 9 more years until she was 12.  She then climbed in my lap and said "I want to go to the temple to, Mommy" I told her she couldn't go.  She then told us again she wanted to go to the temple, so I told her we would go tomorrow to the temple and she said ok.

This morning we got up and we got everyone ready.  We rode Trax to Temple Square, as two kids under the age of 6 can ride free with a paid adult.  so we figured it would cost us about the same to drive and park as it would to take Trax.  The kids loved riding Trax.  We got to Temple Square and we met up with Marj Condor, a sister in my ward and a bunch of others.  We were early, so we had to wait for the Church History Museum opened.  We then went in and saw the "I am a Child of God" exhibit, that is getting ready to close down this next week.  Marj and helped to design the exhibit, so it was fun to listen to some of her facts about it.  The kids had fun playing in there.

We then walked over to Temple Square and took some pictures with the temple.  Then we got on Trax and rode it home.  Irene feel asleep on the way, but she was up really early.

We had fun.  Thanks Marj for inviting us to join you there to see the exhibit.  I think we will have to do this more often with the kids.

Enjoy the Slide show of some of our pictures!