When a temple is just built, the public is allowed to walk through it on a guided tour. It has not been dedicated and set apart from the world to fulfill it's purpose yet. Once it is, only those that have demonstrated their worthiness to enter are allowed in. One's worthiness to enter is determined by all of those good, positive virtues in this life: honesty, chastity, service to fellow men, and a perfect uprightness before God and man.
Temples are very sacred. As I entered the temple through the baptistry doors I felt an immediate sense of holiness. Holiness to the Lord. As I walked through it I just thought to myself, over and over again, that this will truly be the House of the Lord, and He will dwell in it. We walked through the baptistry first, and we were all impressed with the openness and the light and the goodness that infused every room. Taking a couple of left turns we climbed stairs, ascending farther into the "mountain of the Lord." The rooms in the upper portion of the temple were glorious and conducive to reverence and joy. I couldn't stop smiling. We all whispered to each other how we couldn't wait to someday go through the temple for ourselves.
After we exited the temple, we were given cookies and water and left back home on the bus. Jerry's car wouldn't start, and we had to attempt to procure jumper cables and a working car to jump from. Upon completion of that getting-to-be-common task, we drove home and arrived in the hour before midnight. Long time, but completely worth every minute of it.
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So glad you were able to make it to the open house for the Draper Temple...wish we could go.
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