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MormonTimes.com: Not all Utah temple trips can be considered simple
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If I take Greyhound or Trailways to Ogden or Provo I can get there in about an hour (same as if I drove my self) but with UTA it can take either an hour and a half to almost 3 hours or more. Today we are going to Ogden using UTA service it will take almost 2 hours but to me it is worth it. Friday my husband and I will be attending the Provo Temple.
I would love to attend the Bountiful and Mt. Timpanogus temples but UTA doesn't go to them.
I am happy to be able to get to what temples I can by bus without having to rely on others.
Some Utahns need to get out of "Zion" a little more often and see how the bulk of their co-religionists live.
I found this story very interesting and newsworthy.
Can anyone verify that? Curious.
When it takes all day to go to the temple, you treat it as the focus of the day. If you're lucky enough not to be driving, you can spend the trip down reading and pondering, focused for four hours on what is about to happen, then arrive in a better state of mind to participate, then participate, and, rather than jump immediately back to your home and work, have a chance to ponder on it all for the next four hours. Since it takes the whole day, it's much more special.
Although I do enjoy attending here, I miss the opportunity to just focus on it all day.
By comparison, driving 3 1/2 hours in a motorized climate-controlled vehicle is hardly a sacrifice.
To Ya Know: You can still take the time to prepare and reflect before you go to the temple. It doesn't require a 4 hour drive to make yourself mentally and spiritually prepared. Take 4 hours to read scriptures or whatever in your home before you go. If the close proximity makes it less special to you, thats your own fault because of lack of effort and preperation. If you think its more special to make the temple trip an all day event (whether its required by travel or not), then make it an all day event. I for one find it a very great blessing to have the convenience to go whenever I want.
To those who live in more heavily populated LDS areas, having a temple so close by can be a great strength and support . . . if you use it.
For those who use excuses as a barrier to their attendance, 10 minutes would be inconvenient if they don't want to be there.
But to those who go whenever circumstances allow in a worshipful spirit seeking to be edified and blessed, no distance is too great and no sacrifice impossible to obtain the blessing available in the temple of God.
If the saints in Escalante continue to make their sacrifices to attend, it will be recognized and they will be blessed by our Father in Heaven.
And that is the purpose of attending the temple to begin with - to receive the peace and blessings that only come in the House of the Lord.
Here in the OC, while Mesa is the "busiest" temple outside of Utah, the Newport Beach Temple is the "busiest" smaller temple of the Church. Over 1.1 million ordinances in less than 2 years. Typically it requires a week to 2 week reservation in advance to get into a session. And the Newport Beach Temple was the first temple to be entirely paid in full by local members in the temple district.
I gladly donate to the temple fund each month.
Whiners.
I would be interesting to see who has the higher attendence rate per capital
City Temple District. It took 33 hours plus one way.
Now we have a temple in our city "back East" and we are just down the road about 20 minutes from our temple here. See what 50 years did. I have lived in Guatemala near the temple in that city and have heard the stories of people who can't eat after they sell all and travel to the temple because there was no money left for food.
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