I Love to See the Temple

Mom missing as usual from pictures.

Wednesday morning we had the chance to take Kylee and Alyssa to the Draper Temple Open House. What a great opportunity for them to be able to see what it looks like inside of a Temple. Elliott's parents were kind enough to watch Ryann and Addison early that morning. On average 20,000 people will go through that temple each day. Luckily we had tickets that were early in the morning, during the week. They have you meet at certain churches, watch a quick video on the history of Draper and Temples. Then they load you on a bus to take you to the Temple. The Church really puts a lot into these open houses. We didn't have to wait in any long lines or have a bunch of people around us when we walked through. This gave us a great opportunity to talk to the girls about the different things they saw inside. How grateful I am to live during this time that Temples have been restored and more importantly that our families can be together forever. They were able to see the sealing room where marriages are performed and where they too one day can be sealed for time and all eternity to their future husband (that hopefully won't happen for a really long long time).

There is a chapel on the same property of the Temple site. At the end of the tour you ended up inside the cultural hall of this church. They did a nice job on setting this up. They had cookies and bottled water for everyone that just finished the tour. When we were entering the room a young family were in front of us with 3 little kids. The oldest was 4-5 years old. She said to her mom that it really wasn't that fun. I just laughed. It sounded like something cute one of David's girls would say. This is why we left the younger ones with Nana and Paca. Right outside of the cultural hall is were you would catch your bus back to the Church you came from. You just have to remember the color of bus so you don't end up in the wrong place. Like I said, the Church has it down. The only downside was that the smog was so bad in the Salt Lake Valley that you couldn't fully appreciate the view because you couldn't see anything. The Draper Temple is high up the mountain. The open houses runs until mid March. If you get a chance...GO with your kids. Our girls loved it. We followed up our morning with a bagel from Einstein's and then off to school they went.

Smoggy Valley you can't even see the Mountains!

On the Bus ride back