We’re in North Salt Lake, Utah tonight and will go back home around mid-day tomorrow. The reason for coming down (besides spending time with family) was to go to the Draper, UT Temple open house. The open house process was very well set up. When the tickets were obtained online, the information described which chapel in the area of the temple you should go to. After arriving at the assigned chapel, we watched a short ten-minute video about Draper and temples. Then we boarded a very comfortable bus to ride to the Temple. We went into the Temple through the baptistry, made our way through the baptistry, up to the chapel and dressing rooms, then up to the session rooms, the Celestial Room, and into one of the Sealing Rooms. From there we went outside and over to an adjacent chapel for refreshments and to catch a bus back to where we started.

The entire process took about an hour and a half. The Draper Temple is beautiful (as expected). I would describe it as being elegantly beautiful. The murals in the session rooms are exquisite. The feeling in the Temple was very peaceful and those around us also seemed to be very impressed with not only the building, but the spirit that was there as well.

We’ll go back home around mid-day tomorrow. I’m going to have breakfast with some people in Salt Lake who I’ve met over the past year or so. Then it’s back home. I have to be at the Alameda Stake Center in Pocatello at 7:50 p.m. to get set up for the Regional Single Adult Dance for January. My Stake has the responsibility for the dance this month. Then I won’t have the assignment again until December. My Arizona daughter wondered if I was needed there to verify that couples weren’t dancing too close. The rules at the youth dances when she was growing up were that if you could not put a hymnal or a Book of Mormon between the dancing partners, they were dancing too close. Fortunately for me, no such rule exists for folks over 30 years old. My job is to dish out refreshments, pay the disk jockey, and lock up the building after the event is over, which will be about 11:30 p.m. That makes for a short night before my meetings start a 7 a.m. Sunday morning!

Click on the door picture to see what that’s all about.