LANGLEY, British Columbia — More than 1,200 youth gathered on the temple grounds of the newly completed Vancouver British Columbia Temple on a drizzly, wet morning May 1, the day before the temple was to be dedicated.
Standing in front of the temple, Elder Paul D. M. Christensen, an Area Seventy and chairman of the local temple committee, said, "Behind me is a gift."
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