The Temples

[_MormonMendacity]

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?

We toured the Guadalajara temple with my then son-in-law's parents who were on a temple-building mission in 2001 just before dedication. I was amazed at how small it was! Guad has 4 million people and I thought it was so tiny! I agree, TD, they could have put endowment rooms into stake centers and just ramped up security during temple sessions.

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!

Good point! But the whole notion that these things are "required of god" seems a bit silly. More like busy work than serious salvation.

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~

I attended two sessions in the Oakland temple in 1995 and there were less than twenty of us in that huge endowment room. It was a weekday morning but I was still amazed!

For me it was hard to understand the meaning of doing those sessions. I watched the elderly temple workers sleeping and felt sorry for them. What a terrible assignment!

[Anonymous]

[quote="Runtu"]]

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.
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Are the temples located in the rich part of town?

The one near where I live is definitely located in the more upscale side of town. Incidently it's within a few miles of two megachurches. Needless to say it appears to not have much business.

Bond

[_Polygamy Porter]

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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.

Are the temples located in the rich part of town?

The one near where I live is definitely located in the more upscale side of town. Incidently it's within two megachurches. Needless to say it appears to not have much business.

Bond

Not the Sacramento Temple.

Hell its not even IN Sacramento.

It located in a dumpy town known for its topless bars. Rancho Cordova. We call it Raucho Cordova.
They initally, predicted(i.e. HOPED) that the new international house of handshakes would be over run by all of the visitors to the open house.. that did not happen. They also thought it would be sooooo busy in the first year that you would be required to make an appointment to do a necro-session... nope! within weeks that was gone as well.

Imagine if the Mormons would take the money and time that they dedicate to dead people, and use it on the living needy. Imagine the tangible good that could be done!

[_Yoda]

OMG, PP!

You live near Sacramento!

I grew up in Yuba City!

This is too weird!

Sending you a PM.

[_Runtu]

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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.

Are the temples located in the rich part of town?

The one near where I live is definitely located in the more upscale side of town. Incidently it's within a few miles of two megachurches. Needless to say it appears to not have much business.

Bond

The Houston Temple is located in Champion Forest and is literally next door to the Champions Golf Course, where a couple of years ago they held the PGA championship. To the south of the temple is a high-rise condo that is unbelievably expensive. To the north is the Champion Forest neighborhood.

In fact, I found a real estate listing for a house that appears to be directly across the street from the temple on Cypresswood drive (the temple is on the southwest corner of Cypresswood and Champion Forest Drive.

Take a look: Here

[_OUT OF MY MISERY]

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.

Since when has Gaz ever made any sense...Gaz lacks many things one of which is logic....I think when Gazzy boy posts he is incredibly high on something.....cause nothing he says I understand...

[_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.

What better movies to brainwash you with my dear!!!!

sincerely, TBBW