Manti, during my stay at the mission training, 1968. LTM, MTC, I forget what we called it.
Logan for a friend's wedding in 1973, just before mine
SLC again for my wedding.
Made a few visits to SLC, Provo, St George over a few years of activity.
Chicago, 1998. My wife had a work conference with her boss. His wife came along, we played tourist and saw Oprah. One night, we took the EL to go to the temple. We had a member on the train talk to us and he said, 4 white people ought not to be on this train after dark. So we got off, got a cab for another 20 minutes to the temple. Some nice local members offered to drive us back to downtown Chicago--we bought them a tank of gas.
That's all. And I don't miss it.
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Temples I've been to without holding a TR include:
- Idaho Falls Temple (baptisms for dead)
- Oakland Temple (where my family was sealed)
- Tempe, AZ temple
- St George Temple
- Salt Lake Temple
Partial to the Logan Temple because that's where my paternal grandparents and great grandparents were married in pioneer days.
Don't care for the newer mini temples - they lack the architectural luster of the older more stately temples. Resembling more a franchised chain operation like McDonald's than a church IMO. The older ones have more class.
janis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've been in more Marriott lobby than mormon > temples. > I've been in 11 temples.
I took your subject line seriously. I might would have at least been in the top half of actual Marriott Hotel lobbies. I'm probably near the bottom of anyone who has ever held a TR with four celestial rooms.
When we lived in BYU married student housing, we had a babysitting co-op. It was cool and worked out well. But 9 times out of 10, the people who I sat for or who called on my secretary months to arrange sitting, were going to the temple. Some went every week. I'd use my accumulated hours to go to a movie by myself. Either way, it was a couple hours in a quiet place watching a movie and getting away from the kids. But my theater had much better popcorn.
I still say the temples are a good place for just de-toxing from everyday life, especially for people with small kids. And people who don't feel creepiness in the temple. That's probably easier these days. I haven't been since they took out the death oaths and rub-an-old-man's points of fellowship. Sure you can feel "the spirit" (i.e., peace) there. It's quiet. It makes you feel special that you can get in. Whatever works.