Orlando Florida Temple

March 17, 2023

This was my first standby trip to use Elliott's flight benefits.  I was planning on going to Altanta & Baton Rouge, but those flights were full and I didn't quite know how this system worked, so I ended up changing and flying to Orlando & Indianapolis.

The Orlando Temple was very similar to the Mt. Timpanogos, but a bit smaller and overall not quite as nice.  I would say the style looks a bit older like it has some architecture styles of the 60"s, but it was built in the 90's.

I wouldn't be surprised if it gets an interior Rremodel soon, because it's just not quite up to the level of newer Temples.  But it does have some really nice designs.  It has domes all over the place.  Dome over the font. Dome over the staircase. Dome over the sealing altars.  My favorite one is the Dome in the Celestial room that is beautiful stained glass.  It's stunning!  That for sure is my favorite part.

This temple didn't have separate creation and terrestrial rooms.  The endowment room had a velvet cap that was kind of like the rail on the walls around the altar that was flamingo pink.  I was really curious if they were going to use that color on the sealing altars, but they didn't.

I would rate this temple as a B as of now, as the mismatched interior decor and lower quality details like office ceiling tiles in the ceiling office, formica counters in the bathroom, metal initiatory dividers.  But the stained glass in this temple is spectacular!

I was able to do 10 baptisms, 5 intiatories, 1 Endowment, 3 couple sealings and 6 children sealings.

#44 Philadelphia Temple- A

 

12/16/2022

After a trip to New York with Sam to see Kessa play in Carnegie Hall, I took advantage of the close proximity to get a train to Philadelphia, so I could visit the Philadelphia temple.  The temple is only open 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the evening, so it's making travel a bit tricky, as I have to leave really late at night in order to be able to do all of the sessions.  

I left our hotel at 6:00am to get to take the subway to the Amtrak station.  My train was supposed to leave at 7:05, but didn't leave until 7:45!  They said there was congestion on the lines.  I'm not sure how often that happens, but that was quite the delay.  It was a good thing that I had a bit of a cushion.  I was supposed to arrive an hour before my Intiatories at 9:30, which would give me plenty of time to walk the 20 min from the station to the temple.  We made up a bit time, and arrived only 30 minutes late.  I booked my Uber as I ran off the train and made it to the temple at 9:20.

The temple is right in the middle of the city, not the normal large landscaped suburban area.  It's a very tall with spires at each end, reminiscent of Logan & Manti temples.  It looked much darker grey in person, but it has been raining, so maybe that affected it.

I started with the Intiatories.  A super sweet lady saw that I had extra names and offered to do some.  It was a good thing, because I only was able to do 3 names before I had to leave for the Endowment.  The Initiatory area was nicer than average.  It had a very colonial square column in the center behind the faucet that had the very colonial looking vertical grooves in it. It also had crown molding around the booths.

For the Endowment, the creation room was bigger than I expected.  It also had a colonial feel.  It had the mural around the wall, which kind of reminded me of the sacred grove.  It was a bunch of trees, and a small river.  It had a very dark, maybe oil-rubbed brass candelabra chandeliers.  The terrestrial room felt like a colonial/Victorian mix.  It still had candelabra chandeliers, but they were made of glass, and were beautiful!  There was quite a bit of beautiful colonial type moldings throughout.

The celestial room was stunning!  I would say the ceiling is about 40 ft. tall.  I love the really tall celestial rooms.  There was a huge chandelier in the center.  Probably about 7' wide and 15' tall.  It was also the candelabra style, and on top the the glass that made the core of it, It had probably 100 something dangling crystals, which made it so beautiful!  There was quite a bit of carved trim in the celestial room, but it was all painted ivory, so it looked tastefully done.  The table under the chandelier was a beautiful dark wood, probably mahogany.  One interesting thing that I noticed on here was that the rim around the edge of the table had quills around the edge.  I wonder if that's in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence signed here.

The stained glass was simple and elegant and carried the beautiful powder blue and gold colors that appeared to me most strongly in the sealing rooms.  The Sealing rooms were beautiful!  The ceilings were tall, maybe 12-15'.  The powder blue velvet on the altar cushions was mouthwateringly beautiful.  The carpet was one of my favorite carpets ever!  The carpet was designed to look like a rug as it was cream for about a foot from the wall, where then a gold border then began the pattern on the inner part of the rug.  The pattern was made of gold hexagons, maybe 5" wide.  These hexagons had a thin gold border, with a flower in the center.  The pattern and the texture were just stunning!  The chairs also had light gold pattern fabric with powdered blue dots

I forgot to take a picture before I left for my 5 hour break until the temple reopens to do baptisms.  Hopefully I can still get some light in my picture.  It's completely overcast, so we'll see.  I've spent the last 5 hours hanging out at Panera Bread with several homeless.  But at

Favorite things- The carpet in the sealing rooms, the powder blue velvet on the altars, the quill around the table in the celestial room & the doors with brocade trim in the celestial and sealing rooms.

#43 Nashville Tennesse- B+

#42 Memphis Tennessee- A

Dec 1 & Dec 3, 2022

I got to take an amazing trip to Tenessee.  Since the smaller temples aren't open very long each day and I had to coordinate driving 3.5 hours between the temples, I did some ordinances in Memphis when I arrived there on the 1st, and some right before I left on the 3rd.

Memphis was originally built in 2000, but they had mold growing and they had to take it down to the studs and rebuild it, and it was just rededicated in 2019.  So it is very new and VERY nice inside.  I give it a solid A.  It has beautiful white and grey marble through out.  

The creation room in the endowment has a beautiful mural with a lake on one side and a grove on the other.  The grove has a lot of purple flowers on it, and I wonder if they are the purple flowers depicted on the stained glass, which are paw paws.  There is no challenge in this temple, and I was seated directly in the creation room, which held about 44.

The decorating is all very tasteful and the trim is exquisitely done.  Not too much and not too little.  The terrestrial room has chairs that I loved that I didn't see the fabric anywhere else.  They were a powdered blue, with a beautiful coral floral pattern.  

The Celstial room was beautiful and tastefully decorated.  I would have lived to see more of the pattern from the chairsbin the terrestrial room, but this room had more of a very soft green and coral floral pattern.  The carpet was fun and they had made a criss cross cut pattern in the entire carpet.

The sealing rooms had 12' ceilings.  Not as tall as Draper, but tall enough to make them feel grander than most sealing rooms.

The baptistry had a font that had white and grey marble around the top and blue mosaic tile.  The tile was nice, but nothing exceptional.  The baptistry had a beautiful glass door on the confirmation room.  While this was a small temple, this temple felt a bit bigger than Nashville

The intiatory area was nicer than average as it had beautiful curtains and crown casing that held the curtains that separate the sections.

If this temple had granite in the bathrooms or something else exceptional, I would have given it an A+.  It was close.  It was nicer than most Temples.  Particularly with the taller ceilings in the sealing room and the upgraded intiatory area.

When I left Memphis, not far from the temple, I had to stop and take a photo of a shopping center called "Chiles Plaza".  It's my mother's maiden name, and not a name I have ever seen anywhere.  The more surprising thing came when I came to the next street called Reese Rd. My brother, who died 2 years ago, was Reece Chiles Madison.  It felt like a confirmation that he was there with me.  The even more interesting thing is that when I came back later from a different direction, I saw that Chiles plaza was on the intersection of Brother Blvd.  So within 2 blocks I had Brother Reese Chiles signs.  I was little tempted to see if Madison was around the next corner!

#41 Hartford Connecticut

September 3, 2022

After I visited the Boston temple, I went back to Hartford and spent the next morning at this temple.

The Hartford temple is one of the few on only one level.  From Baptisms to Sealings, they are all on the same level.

The telestial room was really beautiful and had a painted mural.  It looked like on one side it was a river.  The seats in both the terestrial and tellestial rooms looked like solid old benches from the back, but had individual seats in them.  They were cool looking.  Ive only see them once before.  I can't remeber which temple, maybe Mesa?The Celestail room had one of the most beautiful chandeliers.  It was huge, all crystal.  Even the arms that curved to hold the lights were crystal.  It had lots of dangling crystals, and was just stunning.  The architecture of this temple felt very colonial.  Kind of surprised that Boston wasn't colonial like this, but I guess they saved it up for here.  It had.

The tile in the font was really beautiful.  It reminded me of Gilbert, but not quite as nice.  It had the small 1" tiles and they did the stairs a different color than the bottom or the sides, and they had a mosaic pattern on the bottom.  The oxen were interesting too, they painted them in a marble pattern.  I'm guessing to go with the Carrera marble that is throughout the temple.

Some of the interior design wasn't to my taste, very colonial.  Small stiff chairs in the sealing rooms.  The gold and cream floral carpet in the ceiling room was too gaudy.  Because this was only on 1 level, the sealing rooms did have high ceilings, probably 15 feel.  So the sealing rooms did feel pretty grand.

The intialtory rooms do have trim work around them that makes them feel nicer than normal.  I would give this temple an A-.  

I was able to do 1 Endowment, 7 sealings, 30 baptisms and 4 intiatories.

#40 Boston Massachusetts

 

September 2, 2022

On my way to New York, for a girls trip with Kessa, I flew into Hartford on Thursday and drove up to Boston to spend Friday morning at the Boston temple.  The Boston temple felt like it was in this forest oasis.  It tucked off the road, with trees surrounding it.  One of the things that was interesting in the ceiling room, is that it had 12 smaller chandeliers around the perimeter of the celestial room, rather than one massive one in the center.  The sealing room ceilings weren't very high.  The chandelier definitely felt like a prominent point in the sealing room, because it was pretty big and about 6' from the ground, so a tall man might bump heads with it.  The woodworks was beautiful.  It was a lighter wood, maybe maple. I was kind of surprised that there is almost no artwork in the main areas.  There's a few paintings in the halls right by the dressing room, and I saw one by the sealing office.  It had a beautiful double curved stairway.  I remember seeing the curved wooden handrail and was just amazed at the craftsmanship.  Another thing that was different was in the telestial room, there was no murals.  It was decorated very light.  I don't think I've seen a temple with separate endowment rooms, with no mural.  The ceiling in the celestial room was cool, I was rounded, and painted with a diamond design.  The best way I can describe it is kind of looking like Epcot Center sphere.  Overall, I would give Boston am A.  It has a newer feel with beautiful woodwork, stained glass and interior decor.  It doesn't have the granite bathroom stalls that makes some Temples an A+, but it's close.

I was able to do 10 sealings, 5 initiatores, 30 baptisms & 1 endowment.

#39 Brigham City

 May 11, 2022

Did 3 couple sealings, 20 baptisms, 5 intitiatories, 1 endowment.

Overall temple grade- A

Baptistry- One of the most beautiful fonts ever.  The font stands on bronze oxen, and is made from a light brown marble that has colorful inlaid flowers in the marble and has a carved bronze rim.  It has beautiful blue mosaic tile in the font.

Intiatiory- One of the most beautiful intiatory areas.  Light green and gold damask fabric. Gorgeous trim woodwork in between panels and there was a few feet gap between the ceiling and the panels and there was circular woodwork with gold leaf and lighting that prounounced the ceiling.

Endowment area- Telestial room- gorgeous mural of the Salt Lake with mountains and animals.  

Terestrial Room- A bit over the top and gaudy with the trim work.

Celestial- This is one of the few celestial room that isn't rectangular, it is kind of T shaped.  It had gourgeous arched stained glass window in the celestial room

Sealing Rooms-  The sealing room had really tall ceilings, not sure if they are quite as tall as Draper, I didn't look closely enough, but I loved the peach blossom painting that surrounded the chandelier on the ceiling.  

Misc- No granite stalls, but lots of stained glass. I loved the circular stained glass windows that had the cherry blossoms in the center.

#37 Dallas Texas

 April 5, 2022

On my trip to Austin, I took advantage to stop at the Dallas temple today and then Houston tomorrow.  The Dallas temple has a unique style with a lot of spires.  It's very interesting and beautiful outside.  It's interesting that the water feature at the front of the temple is not actually the entrance, as that's at the back of the temple.  The temple has all of the ordinances on 1 level.  When you walk in, there is a very large seating area in the front of the temple, with entrances on all 3 sides of the foyer. Once you walk past the recommend desk, there is a skylight that surrounds one of the spires that you can look up and see.  Overall the construction in this temple isn't the most fancy.  It's very interesting that all ordinance areas of the temple aren't very fancy, except 1 sealing room and the celestial room.  There is a drastic difference in these rooms.

I started out with sealings and was only able to do 4 couples because there were so many other people there doing family names.  The sealing room that I was in was small and very simple.  I enjoyed how small the altar was, it was probably almost half the area of all other temples I've been to.  They have a sealing room that I didn't do sealings in that is rather stunning.  It's got glass windows that you can look through from the inside of the temple to watch the sealing.  It's got  a huge dome ceiling with intricate floral and gold leafing and a large gorgeous chandelier.

After sealings, I was able to do 5 Intiatories. Then I did an endowment.  I wish Sam could have been there because the men's seats were right next to the women's, so we could have sat right next to each other.  The endowment room was pretty small, with only 42 seats total, and very simple.  There weren't even any chandeliers.  The video screen was only 4' wide.

The celestial room is very beautiful.  The most stunning thing is the chandelier.  It stands out in the smaller room and is about 8'wide and probably the same height too.  It really stood out and just felt like it was such a symbol of light coming down from heaven.

After I dd an endowment, I did baptisms.  I was rather early and no one else was there.  They were able to bring in an ordinance worker to perform the baptisms and I was able to get 20 done.

Weekly Ordinances

12/14/32 Timp 1E

12/18/21 Bountiful 10 B

2/10/22 Gilbert 15 SP, 2 SS, 60 B, 4 I, 1 E

2/10/22 Mesa 3 I, 6 SS, 1E, 18 BC

2/11/22 Tuscon 21B, 5 SS, 2 SP, 3I, 1 E

2/11/22 Gila Valley 6 SP, 5 SS, 12 B, 1 E

2/12/22 Snowflake 10 SP, 6 SS, 5 I, 15 B, 1E

2/12/22 Gila 5 I,

2/15/22 Phoenix 6 B

2/19/22 Timp 6 SP

2/26/22 Provo City 12 B

3/1/22 Jordan River 20 B

Feb

• Audrey 16 E

March

• Audrey 26 E
• SS 17
• SP 18
• B 10

April

4/1 Baptisms @ timp

4/5 Dallas- B, I, E, SS

4/6 Houston- B, I, E, SS

    

April Goal- 45 B, 30 SS 8 SP, 4 E

May Goal- 45 B, 30 SS 8 SP, 4 E

June Goal- 45 B, 30 SS 8 SP, 4 E

July Goal- 45 B, 30 SS 8 SP, 4 E

Aug Goal- 45 B, 30 SS 8 SP, 4 E

Sep Goal- 45 B, 30 SS 8 SP, 4 E

Oct Goal- 45 B, 30 SS 8 SP, 4 E

Nov Goal- 45 B, 30 SS 8 SP, 4 E

Dec Goal- 45 B, 30 SS 8 SP, 4 E

End of Year- 405 B, 270 SS, 72 SP, 36 E

Done by the temple:

March E-6 I-9 SS-8 SP-1

Feb I-14 SS-12 SP-11 E-1

Jan-

#34 Tucson Arizona Temple

February 11, 2022

This was our miracle temple experience at Tucson.  I had my itinerary written down for the week, and was expecting to do an initiatory at 7:30, and endowment at 8:00, with sealings at 9:30 and then running and grabbing the boys from the hotel to be back for baptisms at 11:30.  The trick was we needed to be at Gila Valley at 3pm, which the drive said anywhere from 2 hours 10 min-3 hours.  So, I was anxious to get our baptisms done quickly. When I woke up in the morning to get ready, I had the impression to see if there was a McDonald's nearby to drop the boys off, since our hotel was 15 min from the temple and probably wouldn't allow us to do the baptisms early.  I found a McDonald's 5 min away from the temple and decided to do that.  I also needed to be at the temple 30 min early, so I could print out a name that I had left at the Mesa temple, little did I know that would end up being part of the miracle.  We got out of the hotel quickly, and I got the boys set up to do homework at McDonald's.  I snapped my photo of the temple and headed in, to be told at the recommend desk that I actually had baptisms first.  This was not what I had written down.  I checked my email confirmations and this was correct.  I had changed my appointments and not updated my itinerary.  Luckily I had gotten to the temple early and the boys were only 5 minutes away, so I was able to go grab them and we were able to make our baptisms on time.  Without my losing a temple name and without me following my impression, we might have missed our baptisms and probably affected our tight schedule and ability to make it to the Gila Valley temple.  I felt incredibly touched, this is the 3rd time I had some major thing get in the way of a big temple plan, and unexpected things help them fall into place.  It shows me the Lord is so aware of my desire to be at the temple and he is will make sure it works out.

The temple was a smaller temple.  It had a really cool dome on the exterior. 

We started out in the baptistry and they were going to try to let us do more names, but it turned out we could only do 15.  The font was elegant and simple.  Nothing stood out, but the oxen stood out to me.  They were beautiful dark bronze and really stood out, as well as the tile under them was a beautiful inlaid grey and dark peach pattern that the surrounded the oxen.  A temple worker there told me a story about a painting that was put opposite of the font just before women and children were approved to be witnesses.  It was a picture of a family being baptized in the river with a mother and 2 children witnessing.  What a beautiful symbol of that insprired change.

After we did baptisms, the boys got to hang out playing on my phone and computers in the car while I did the rest of my ordinances.  I started out with Intiatories and was able to do 3 Intiatories, before I needed to go to the endowment.  I did 1 endowment.  There was only one instruction room, for both the telestial and terrestrial rooms.  It was elegant and felt pretty simple

The celestial room had more color than I'm used to seeing.  It was pretty, but not really my style.  I can tell you that the peach chairs, were the most comfortable chairs I've ever sat in.  The one thing that was really beautiful was the stained glass window that was also in the ceiling rooms.  After meeting Tom Holdman, the creator of all the stained glass in every temple, and seeing his creations at his studio, I can't wait to see all his work at the temples!

After the endowment, I finished off with sealings.  They had a standard amount they did there, and I was able to do 5 couples and 2 children.

Another 26 ordinances done!

#35 Gila Valley Arizona Temple

February 11. 2022

After finishing at the Tucson temple in the morning, we grabbed some lunch at Eegee's and took the 2.5 hour drive to Gila Valley temple.  We made it without any problems and showed up a bit early for our Baptism appointment.  They were very nice and even let us do a few extra names since we were in between groups and we were able to do 36 baptisms.  The font was beautiful and elegant, but nothing really stood out in it.

After baptisms, I took the boys back to the hotel and they hung out there while I went back to the temple to do an Endowment and some sealing.  They had separate rooms for both terrestrial and telestial.  The mural that surrounded the room, was very reminiscent of the local area.  There were several paintings in the temple of the river, so I'm guessing it's the Gila river.  One of my favorite things in the terrestrial room was the hanging lights.  They had these beautiful blue crystal in them that were really cool.  The stained glass was beautiful, but there were no special pieces on the ceilings.

The celestial room was beautiful!  I loved the soft blue colors and the subtle blue fabric on the sofas.  The chandelier in the celestial room was one of my favorite every.  It was stunning.  It had all these tear drop crystals that made it look like it had leaves and flowers.

After I did an endowment, I did sealings.  I was able to do 5 couples and 5 children.  I LOVED the fabric on the chairs in the sealing room.  The chairs had this cream shimmery fabric.  It looked like it was a glittery chair.  It was stunning.  The sealing room had mini versions of the chandelier from the celestial room.

Tomorrow morning, I'll be back to finish up with Initiatories.

#17 Monticello Utah Temple

We went here over fall break 2015

#18 Sacramento California Temple

Probably Oct 2017 when we did the Reno temple

#28 Bountiful Utah Temple

September 2021

Initiatories, Sealings & Endowment 

#30 Newport Beach Temple

Saturday, October 16, 2021

Temple 30!  This was our last temple in our Southern California Temple Trip.  We did get to get a glimpse of the ocean just right before we made it here.  

The temple was smaller and very similar to Redlands temple.  It even had a large glass window that you could see the baptisms from the waiting area, it just wasn't quite as big as the Redlands.  

Elliott baptized, Audrey, Enoch, Ammon & I and we were able to get another 60 baptisms done.  Elliott & I did an Endowment, initiatories & sealings.  I was able to do a few extra Intiatories, so we did 13 here.  We lucked out again and no one else brought family names, so everyone helped us do our names, so we were able to do 31 sealings.  I z

The one really special thing about Newport was the gorgeous beach murals in the endowment room!  They were stunning!  

#29 Redlands California Temple

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Today began our Southern California Temple Trip.  3 Temples, plus Disneyland & Universal Studios.  Our first stop was here at Redlands.

We realized on the way that Elliott packed only a short sleeved shirt.  Thank goodness for drive up pickup.  We ordered shirts from Target & Kohls for backup and we're able to quickly grab one and make it to the temple on time.

We started off with baptisms with the names Grandma & Gandpa Mefford gave us.  We got 62 done in less than an hour! One thing that was unique about this temple was a large glass window that you can see into the font from inside waiting area of the temple. So it's nice to be able to see the youth being baptized while you're walking through the temple.  

Elliott & I did initiatories, sealings & endowment.  The endowment room was really cool with a vaulted ceiling that looked like a sky.

#27 Vernal Utah Temple

August 27, 2021

We made a quick weekend trip to Vernal to a balloon festival, Dinosaur Monument & Temple Trip.  Enoch & Jonah stayed home, so it was just Ammon & I at the temple.  We had the entire appointment to ourselves.  The workers were so kind and helpful and let us do 20 baptisms each!  The temple is a smaller temple, so they had some things they did that were extra nice touches!  First, we had to remove our shoes and socks and put on clean socks just to walk around the baptistry.   It really just gave the message that this was a special sacred place.  They had a baptizer ready to go for us, which is rare.  It just felt like they were ready to take care of us.  They had bath mats in the changing stalls and hangers in the lockers.  Just little touches that seem like they are trying to make it special.  Something unique in this font is the huge mirror on the other side of the font.  It was cool to see the baptism from all angles.  Also I noticed the oxen had green grass and wheat all around the base.  Wheat was all through the temple and I'm guessing it was symbolizing the staff of life.

August 28, 2021

This morning I was able to go on my own to do an endowment, sealing & initiatories. The temple is smaller, and feel like an older house with lots of staircases.  I found out that it used to be a tabernacle and was converted to a temple.  You can see a lot of the furniture looks like it is restored antiques.  I did an endowment first.  The wals of the telestial room were all painted.  I didn't notice, but apparently each section represents part of Christ's life.  The temple is beautiful, but has an old feeling to it.  I assume they wanted to keep some of the feeling of the old tabernacle, which a local told me was really special to them.

The sealing room took my breath away.  No because of the beauty of the decor, because that was more simple, but when you first walk in there is a huge painting of Christ with open arms surrounded by angels announcing his coming.  It's probably 20 feet tall, and it is breath taking anf feel like you are walking right to the Savior.  The Spirit was so strong I was overcome with emotion and tears.

After spending time in the sealing room, I went to to sealings.  There were only 2 other sisters there, and they had to get some temple workers to help us out.  We had to wait quite awhile, but I was still able to do 9 sealings.  The sealing rooms also had wheat painted on the walls.

Last I did initiatories. I was a little bummed that they started 10 minutes late and wouldn't let me go over and so I only got to do 4 names.  But it was an amazing g experience nonetheless. 

US Temples Visited

 

#25 Ogden Utah Temple

7/16/21

Today I was able to take Enoch & Ammon to go do baptisms at the Ogden temple.  They are the first temple in Utah to open up to more than 20 people per hour during our Covid phase 3, and so we finally got a temple to visit in Utah!  They were fast and efficient and we all were able to do 5 names and be completed in 30 minutes!

7/23/21

Today I visited the Odgen Temple.   It was a bit over an hour away from me.  I had my endowment scheduled for 8, my sealing at 10 and my initiators at 11:30.  Unfortunately the sound was off on my navigation, so I missed a few exits and didn't arrive to the temple until 8.  I was worried that it would mess up my appointments, but had faith that everything would work out.  Luckily they had an 8:30 session, and I was able to attend that one and still make it to my 10 am sealings.  The sealer was amazing and helped me get done 14 sealing.  That's the most I've done in one session in a long time.  

One thing I noticed about the Ogden temple was that it had many features that I would have thought were only in newer temples, but I didn't think it was a new temple.  It had stained glass on the endowment ceiling room that was lit behind it.  It had gorgeous marble columns and base boards.  It had beautiful stained glass windows.  It even had marble bathroom stalls with wood doors like Payson.  I looked it up when I left and saw that it was originally built in 1967 and had a 3.5 year renovation that was completed in 2014.  That made sense!  They really did completely redo this temple!

#23 Payson Utah Temple

7/16/21 

Today I got to do an endowment and 2 sealing the the Payson temple.  With Covid restrictions,  it's hard to get Intiatories, so no Intiatories here yet. Payson is one of my most favorite temples.  Temples built from after around 2010 have seriously had a step up in luxury and the Payson is one of the most luxurious in my mind.  The entry way had intricate marble floors.  Door handles are cast bronze with flowers etched in them.  Incredible stained glass art is everywhere.  From the endowment room windows and ceiling to the sealing room windows.  Even the bathrooms have granite stalls with gorgeous dark wooden doors.  I just see how much love was put to make this temple so beautiful. 

8/3/21

This morning I was able to take Ammon, Enoch & Audrey to the temple to do baptisms.  Audrey's boyfriend Brennan, his sister Clara, and his mom Cindy also joined. Us.  We were able to do 30 baptisms, which was awesome!

8/21/21

Today we were able to go to do baptisms and get 20 done.  Audrey joined us, and then Ammon & Enoch and I went out for the coveted Weinerschnitzel & to see the movie Jungle Cruise.