The Temples

[_Bond...James Bond]

Are all the new temples needed?

Are they being used regularly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_te ... day_Saints

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Bond

[_Runtu]

Are all the new temples needed?

Are they being used regularly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_te ... day_Saints

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_te ... hic_region


Bond

Not the Houston Temple. It's virtually empty most of the time. Usually they have to round up some temple workers to fill up the prayer circle. Last time I was in the Los Angeles Temple, it too was quite empty. Provo and Mt. Timpanogos were pretty full when I went there, but none of the other Utah temples I attended were even close to full. Some temples are so unused that you have to make an appointment to attend a session.

[_Gazelam]

The goal is to make the temple available to all members of the church withen a days travel.

The Las Vegas Temple recently set a record for attendance in a weekend.

[_Bond...James Bond]

The goal is to make the temple available to all members of the church withen a days travel.

The Las Vegas Temple recently set a record for attendance in a weekend.

So they did add the casino wing. I thought my suggestion was a little unorthodox, but it looks like they're going mainstream.

Bond

[_truth dancer]

I would be intereted to know if having more temples has increased temple attendance. In the wards in which I have attended I do not think this is the case. Seems the handful of folks that are regular temple goers, go regardless of location. But I could be wrong. As a believer I would have appreciated the closer locations.

~dancer~

[_truth dancer]

Ohh also, as a believer, I wondered why they couldn't just add a wing onto stake centers and dedicate it as a temple. I mean why have a separate elaborate building?

I also thought it would be good to shorten the film... after you have seen it over and over and over and over and over it gets hard to watch. And since one is going through for folks who are dead, there is no need for them to "see" it, if they have eyes and are watching, (which I thought they were). Seems to me they would know the story pretty well! Which brings up another point, I always felt we were making covenants for those folks who are dead and who can't keep or break the covenants anyway. I mean its not like they can give all that they have to the church...Ya know?

Oh well...

~dancer~

[_Runtu]

I would be intereted to know if having more temples has increased temple attendance. In the wards in which I have attended I do not think this is the case. Seems the handful of folks that are regular temple goers, go regardless of location. But I could be wrong. As a believer I would have appreciated the closer locations.

~dancer~

Before they built the temple here in Houston, we had to take a 4.5-hour trip to Dallas to attend the temple, so there was much excitement when the temple opened here (ironically in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in all of Houston). For a while, people were using the temple, but the novelty has apparently faded. Six years after the dedication, the place is deserted most of the time.

What I find interesting is that one of my good friends who was a veil worker told me of a time a couple of years ago when they had a regional mission presidents conference. He said that almost all of the mission presidents and their wives needed help going through the veil. Imagine that. Here are the alleged leaders of the church who don't attend the temple often enough to have the process down. Of course, my friend (and the temple president there) has since left the church.

[_Rollo Tomasi]

Are all the new temples needed?

Are they being used regularly?

Many of the older, supersize temple are running well below capacity (their large size has been made obsolete by the smaller temples). What I call 'the show temples,' in Nauvoo, Palmyra, and Winter Quarters, are only busy during the touristy times of the year.

[_OUT OF MY MISERY]

Can't have to many temples now can we...what else are they going to do with all that money....need to show off some way

Need show people where their tithing is actually going right???

[_Mercury]

The goal is to make the temple available to all members of the church withen a days travel.

The Las Vegas Temple recently set a record for attendance in a weekend.

How does that prove its in heavy use?

If the previous high was X and the new high is X+N then the increase, N, does not have to be considerable. In other words if its always been low then N does not have to indicate heavy use. it just means more than X.

When I was doing weekly work at the las vegas temple there were usually on average 10 individuals in a session. Many sessions were cancelled and the numbers were from the individuals that wanted to go to the cancelled sessions who waited.

Your logic is flawed once again Gaz.