Temples

July 24, 2010 · Posted in Spiritual 

As the new executive secretary I’ve changed a couple things.  The most obvious is the Sunday program.  The previous secretary kept the same image on the cover, the Mesa Temple.  I don’t have a problem with that, but I decided that it was time for a little change.  Starting last week I’ve started putting a different temple on the program each week.  Last week was Nauvoo, this week is St. George.  I realized today that when I was born there were 17 operating temples.  In the ENTIRE WORLD.  The church was celebrating it’s 150th year when I was born and there were 17 temples.  It is hard to believe that there were so few.  When I got married, 22 years later, there were 114. 33 temples were dedicated in 2000, nearly twice the number that were in existence after 150 years.  — Just a little trivia.

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