In the middle of April we had the awesome opportunity of going down to Atlanta, Georgia for the open house of the Atlanta Georgia Temple. To learn more about temples click here. The Atlanta Temple needed some renovations and was closed for almost 2 years to completely redo the inside of the temple. After this is done the temple needs to be rededicated again before it can be used again for sacred ordinance work. So before they rededicate or dedicate an LDS Temple they have an open house where anyone can come inside and see what it's like.
This then became an awesome opportunity to show our children what a temple is like inside (although they all are a little different in construction and decor etc, they serve the same purposes worldwide).
The grounds were beautiful and the Spirit was plentiful as we walked through and had a tour of the Temple and i took the opportunity to share and explain things a bit more to my kids as we entered each room.
There's really not much more to say....it's something that needs to be experienced in real life.....however the children enjoyed it and i think they thought it was well worth the 4 hour drive to see. When i asked the children what they liked the most about the temple they were unanimous in their comments that they enjoyed the feeling of peace and the Spirit as they went through and they also really liked all the pretty chandeliers. ;-)
The Sunset on the way home was spectacular! After we got home we finished up the day by taking the kids to the movies. :-)
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