Tuesday, April 12, 2011

TEMPLE SQUARE

On Tuesday we spent the day on Temple Square.  We parked under the conference center and had decided that Mom, Kodi and I would attend a session at the Salt Lake Temple.  We had never previously done a session there.  Teiler had a limited use recommend from his bishop, so he went and did baptisms and confirmations while us adults attended a session.
Hey where's my grub?

After we were done at the Temple our stomachs told us it was time to eat.  We went to the top of the Joseph Smith Memorial building and ate at the Garden restaurant.  It was really tasty.







We went across to the conference center and had a tour.  Our guide was very nice and made it very personal.  He chuckled quite good when we were in the Conference center right by the production box that's on the floor in front of the pulpit.  Teiler thought it would be funny to hear the acoustics of the building so he let out a few strange sounds that reverberated clear as a bell for all the others to hear.  We went all over the conference center.  We saw all the original paintings by Friberg and toured the roof and ponds and gardens up there as well.

Twins?

We then went and viewed the movie in the Legacy theatre about the life of Joseph Smith.  After that we went to the North visitors center and spent some time there talking to numerous sister missionaries.  Did you know that there are 200 sister missionaries serving on Temple Square?  The first Sisters to greet us talked to us for a while and knew right away that Kodi was a missionary.  They congratulated him and as we were about to excuse ourselves to walk around, I asked one of the sisters, are you that same sister missionary who is in the KSL video about missionaries and the MTC?  She blushed and tried to be all humble about it, but the cat was out of the bag.  Just that morning Kodi and I had watched a seven part series that KSL did on the MTC and missionary service.  It was shown between the Sunday Morning and Afternoon sessions of general conference the week before.  You should check it out from KSL.COM. Here's the link:

We finished up at Temple Square and then headed back to the Hotel.  A busy day, but very spiritual and enlightening.

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