Draper Temple

Last Sunday we had a chance to go on a private tour of the new Draper Temple. I have been excited for this temple to get here for quite a while. When my dad was on the high council in Draper our stake president told him of a neat experience concerning it. Draper was growing like a weed, and they needed to split the stake. So they had a general authority come to the stake conference meetings. Our stake president took the general authority up to the site where they were planning on building a new stake center and the general authority told him that it was the site of a new temple. A few years later, President Hinckley announced that a new temple would be built in Draper! We don't live in Draper anymore, but many times when we have been in the area, we drive up to the temple site to see how it is going. It has been so exciting to see the progress of the temple, and it feels like it has been a slow process. I can't even imagine being one of the pioneers, watching and helping build the Salt Lake Temple! It was so fun to go through the open house with all of my family and see the beautiful architecture of this building. We told Sydney how lucky she was to be going through Jesus's temple, and showed her all the pictures of Jesus, which she loved! Now I am just excited to attend a session there! We are truly blessed to have so many temples around us. There was a map of all the temples around the world, with the majority of them being in the United States. Utah had to have its own map, because there are so many temples here. But, temples are starting to dot the globe. It is so neat to see the prophesies of the prophets come to pass. I can't help but think of the primary song...I Love to See the Temple- it is so true!