I Love to See the Temple

This past weekend we took our family to the Jordan River temple open house. It was only supposed to take about an hour for the tour....it took us over an hour just to get inside the temple. It was a cold, rainy day and no one except me and Hannah had coats on. we had to walk a quarter mile down the street to the church to get shuttled to another church to watch a 10 minute video, then stand in a long zig zagging line outside of the church just to get inside the temple doors. Thank goodness it had stopped raining by then, but I tried to keep Lucas entertained by having him hop over the parking lines and he ended up falling and getting his clothes all muddy. No big deal. We got inside the temple and I attempted to show the boys the different rooms and paintings and explain what they all were. We saw the baptismal font, brides room, sealing room which we got to inside of and show the boys the alter and the mirrors, and the celestial room. I think they enjoyed it,but it took way longer than we expected so I think they might have gotten a little bored and antsy to go to Rachel's house afterwards. I had Hannah strapped to me in the front so she was content on being held and sucked on my coat hood string the whole time. She never made a sound.

The boys loved the bus ride to and from the parking lots. I asked the boys what their favorite part of the temple was and Zander said the Jesus statue, the chairs and stairs, and the Angel Moroni. Lucas said the flowers were his favorite. Even though it didn't quite turn out as we had planned I still feel that it was a special experience for everyone and you could still feel the spirit through all the hustling and noise.