There are these cool buildings...

   Sometimes I wish that I could stick a recording device in my head so that I could show people what and how I think. People would really get a kick out of it.

   

   The Gospel is a pretty cool thing. As in, really cool. I was looking at some of my fellow-missionaries blogs before I began to write this one. I looked towards the top of the page and saw the words 'Next Blog >>.' 

   

   Sure, why not? So, I clicked it.

   I stumbled upon a woman's blog about her life and her family. She has 4 kids and a husband. Her kids range from a young girl (7 maybe?), a pre-teen son, another son who just began driving, and a daughter who has a newborn baby. 

  

   While surveying her blog, I could just... feel her love for her family. I got lost and completely absorbed in it for awhile, I must admit. She was talking about how she loves her kids, her husband, her life, and all the time she spends with her family. She wrote about her imperfections, her weaknesses, but her love for life overall as well.

   It got me thinking.

   Isn't it cool how we can be with our families forever?

   I don't have a family of my own yet (just my siblings and parents back home), but one day, when I have my own wife and kids, I know that I'll want to be able to be with them forever. 

   Which makes me think about Temples. 

   Temples are sacred places where ordinances are performed so that we can be with our families forever. An actual, real physical ordinance performed by the power of God and Jesus Christ- not just a feeling that we can have!

   Which makes me think about how I like architecture. And, not to boast, but LDS temples have few things that compare to them in beauty. 

   Let me take you on a trip.

  

You've been working here all day long. Probably feeling something akin to these...

...blockheads.

The day ends. Time to drive home... except it's rush hour. 

Poppycock.

Great. Even better. "It'll be even longer until I get home to see my spouse." you think to yourself.

Wow. Construction, too. This is awesome. "I'm never going to get home tonight. No time with my kids."

Then suddenly, because of the frozen-molasses paced marathon that you're stuck in, you notice something that you haven't seen in your normal, hurried drive home.

"Vwhaat eeez deees?"
(Said like the Chef from the Little Mermaid when he finds Sebastian)

Traffic is ridiculously terrible, so you decide you'll explore this peculiarity while you wait for the roads to clear up and save some gas. Good idea. You're not going anywhere fast anyway.


 So off you go.

You wind your way through all the trees towards whatever that building could be...

and suddenly...

BAM!

Temple. 

There's something... there's something about this building that begs the question, "What are you doing in a world like this?" 

Here you stand, awestruck as you examine this otherworldly building. There's something... something about it that is completely... 

 ...otherworldly.

Not alien. Not demonic. But... heavenly. So you wonder, "What purpose do you possibly have, building?"

Well, let me tell you.

Enjoy!