Rexburg Temple Open House

This past Friday the family took a day trip out to Rexburg, in eastern Idaho. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has completed a temple there, and before it is dedicated, the church is holding an open house where the public can go through the temple on formal tours.

Fortunately, the roads were clear for the 300+ miles out there, but the wind was intense!!! We had a nasty headwind on the way out there, and a tailwind coming back; I think we used about a billion gallons of gas on the way there, and about three drops of gas on the way back! :-) Sometimes tumbleweeds blew across the freeway like we were under some sort of major attack.

Anyway... it was great to visit the temple. Michelle was reading that within a 55-mile wide circle extending out from the center of Rexburg, there are 120 regular church meeting houses, so it's very special for all of those members to have a temple in their midst. This is the third operating temple in Idaho (Boise, Idaho Falls, now Rexburg) with one more under construction in Twin Falls; by comparison, I think California has seven.

Can you tell from the photo that it was a bit cold out there? We had a great day together.