Ever since we took our girls thru the Ogden Temple Open House this past year they have been begging to go back to the temple and luckily we are so blessed to live in a state with new temples being built.
We attended the Payson Temple open house with the Badger clan as this will be their new temple and had special meaning to the family for that reason. It was also an exciting time because Joel, Anna's younger brother, returned from his mission the day before and so we were able to gather as a family and what better place to do that then the Temple.
The temple itself was incredible. The outside is stone but it is a warm stone that doesn't seem quite real. Anna even had to go up close and touch it to see if it was real stone.
The theme of this temple is apple orchards (which is Anna's new favorite temple and in my top 3...Bountiful because it is my temple and I took out my endowments there and got married there, Odgen because I love the style of it and now this temple for style and majesty of it.) Everywhere you looked there were apple blossoms and apples sewn into upholstery or carved into furniture legs or doorframes. The art glass had leaves with small crystal type apples that increased in frequency the higher you got in the temple.
The main staircase split into two and narrowed as you climbed and my astute wife pointed out 'Straight is the gate and narrow is the way'.
Our girls are excited to go to the next open house which will be the newly refurbished Provo Tabernacle Temple....let the countdown begin.
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