Draper Temple

Today we went to the open house for the new temple in Draper. We had planned to take the whole family, but DJ and Lindsie were both throwing up, so we decided to just go ahead and take Jarod. He had overheard us talking to DJ a few days ago about how he was going to get to see inside the temple, but not actually do any temple work. All Jarod has talked about since then is the fact that he gets to go to the temple and he doesn't have to do any work! First we went to a nearby church and watched a video about temples. Then they put us on a really cool "luxury" bus to get us over to the temple. Jarod thought that was really cool. He loves riding a bus, and this one especially.

We were hoping to get some pictures outside the temple, but they took us straight from the bus to these big long tent things that led into the temple. At the end of the tour, we went into some more tent things that led to a church across the way where we got to have cookies and water. Then we left the church into more tent things that took us straight to the bus. It was kind of funny -- we were never outside! Here's Jarod, waiting for the bus to come and get us. He was so well behaved and reverent. We were really impressed with him today. He thought the coolest part of the temple was the matron's office. Go figure.

Here is a picture of the temple from the bus window. The bus going back wasn't so cool. It was a boring UTA-type bus and we had to stand because it was crowded! I guess they want you to arrive in style, but once the tour is over they just cram you on the bus to get rid of you! :)

The whole time we were there, I just kept wishing so badly that the people of Mongolia had a temple. We have so many here in Utah. Couldn't we just ship one out there so the temple blessings could be available to them too? But then I suppose they value the temple so much more because they have to sacrifice to get there. In Utah we just get lazy because it's too convenient! We'll have to do better.