Oquirrh Mountain Temple

Today was our first temple trip for the

2012~ The Year of The Temple

We headed out to South Jordan to the

Oquirrh Mountain Temple

Fun fact: The Oquirrh Mountain temple was dedicated in 2009. It's one of three temples in South Jordan. The Jordan River Temple & a Hindu temple are also located in South Jordan. The angel Moroni on the top of the temple was hit by lightening & burned on one side during a storm before it opened. Trent was bummed to see that they fixed him. Honestly I was kind of too... he looks good though.

It was a beautiful clear day but SO cold.

Windy out here & in the 30's brrr!

This is the view from the front doors looking east.

The baptistery is around back-- we trekked around back & tried not to freeze!

What a gorgeous day! There are the Oquirrh Mountains in the background.

 (can you tell it was windy?)

It was delightfully packed--

 There was just no way Trent could sit quietly waiting that long to do baptisms.

I called a couple of weeks ago to get an appointment- but they said we didn't need one. They didn't have anyone scheduled. It's so great to see so many young people in the temple- but we knew this would be a long wait for him. Brett talked to one of the temple workers & they let Trent & Brett slip in. We watched & it was beautiful. Trent was so nervous & so excited to be in the temple.

I was so excited for the kids to fill out their passports...

I'm pretty sure I should have gotten my own!?

We stopped on the way home for Chinese food.

It was a Great day & it's going to be a Great Year!

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