With the help of my mom and brother Ammon, I took the kids to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House. We arrived at 8:00 am and had a wonderful tour of the temple. They show a little movie before your tour and I learned that South Jordan is the only city in the world that has two temples within it's city boundaries. Isn't that cool? The tour was not crowded and there was no waiting. I had talked to the kids especially Jacob about what it meant to be sealed together. We love singing "Families can be Together Forever" and so I was trying to explain that the sealing ordinance performed in the temple is how families can be together forever. I told him getting married or sealed there was like starting a chain and that each of us were links in our family chain. In the temple there are many places to see circles linked together like painted on the ceiling as little decorative touches and the pattern on the carpet in the celestial room. It was so neat to be able to show those to Jacob and to see him remember the chain analogy. In a sealing room I got to just sit him Adam and show him how the mirrors went on forever and talk to him about how that symbolizes our family being together forever and how I wanted to be with him forever and that I would always be his mommy. I am so grateful that I have had two opportunities this year to take my children to the temple with me and show them the rooms there and explain a little about what happens there and why they are so important. We have all felt the Holy Ghost in both this temple and the Draper temple and I have felt the love our Heavenly Father has for me and for my little family. It is so important to me to take my children to places or create experiences for them to feel the Spirit and recongnize it and I'm grateful we have been able to attended these Temple Open Houses.
The left picture is the front of the temple and the right picture is the back of the temple.
Jacob and Adam enjoyed the cookies and water after the tour.
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