Provo Utah Temple

The Provo Temple is another one that will always be special to me.  As you may know, it is across the street from the Missionary Training Center.  For those who don't know, missionaries for the LDS church go to the MTC (Missionary Training Center) to be trained in methods of teaching the gospel and also to learn the local language of the area they will be sent.  Since I was going to the Dakotas and I was english speaking I was only in the MTC for 3 weeks.  Foreign speaking missionaries are there for varying periods depending on the difficulty of the language they are learning.

The MTC has a very regimented schedule.  You have personal study time, group study time, classes and more classes.  But once a week you get a chance to walk across the street and go to the temple.  I remember the first time our district was able to walk over to the Provo Temple.  It was so nice to feel the warmth and peace of the temple.  It was so nice to escape the regimented schedule.  Unfortunately, none of us took our books with us that had our schedules in them.  We didn't know when our next class started.  Surely, they wanted us to take some time to sit and reflect in the Celestial Room.  I remember really feeling the spirit and really enjoying the time spent in the temple.  Finally, we decided it was time to go back.  Upon returning we discovered we had missed half of our next class.  OOOPS!  Skipping out on class is not something you do in the MTC.  From then on we made sure we knew when we were supposed to be back.  But I don't regret at all the time I spent basking in the spirit of the temple.

I don't have any pictures of the time in the MTC.  But since then, Robyn and I have had a chance to go to the Provo Temple together.  Here are a few pictures of one of our visits together.

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