August 23, 2009Today was the dedication for our temple! Finally! We got to sit in the area just outside the sealing rooms. The spirit was so strong during the "Spirit of God" song especially. After it was over, I sat with the kids and explained that this was the last time that they would be in that area of the temple until they take out their own endowments. We talked about the Spirit and the need for temples and how they felt right then. We all "pinky promised" to always be worthy to enter the temple! What a wonderful day for us.
For history sake, here's the article from the Deseret News about the dedication:
SOUTH JORDAN — A temple dedication, a cornerstone ceremony and an impromptu birthday celebration converged Friday morning at the new Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple.
President Thomas S. Monson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stood front and center for all three.
The several hundred onlookers who witnessed the cornerstone ceremony serenaded President Monson with a spontaneous rendition of "Happy Birthday." President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency, added the well-known, sing-song ending "… and many more."
"That's what I'm listening to hear," President Monson said with a grin.
For Friday's first of nine dedication sessions this weekend, President Monson presided over the proceedings and offered the dedicatory prayer for what becomes the LDS Church's 130th operating temple worldwide and the 13th in Utah.
For the cornerstone ceremony, he left the members-only morning session inside the temple and led church leaders and invited guests to the temple's southeast cornerstone.
Representing the final act in the construction of the temple, the cornerstone ceremony symbolized the Apostle Paul's New Testament analogy of Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone of the true church with apostles and prophets as its foundation.
August 23, 2009
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