The Only Argument that Begins and Ends with Prayer

I heard about the visitor center just last week - BY SOMEONE LIVING OUTSIDE OF ARIZONA!!!!  and decided that this must be a family night activity.   I sat down and googled the temple and found this blog:  http://gilbertldstemple.blogspot.com/  It's pretty neat if you don't get to live here and actually see the day to day changes. This website   http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/gilbert/construction/ has some great pictures of the construction as well.

Tonight we finished dinner quickly and took the gang on a field trip.  I highly recommend it. 

Some interesting facts that we found out were:

1. There will be parking for 700!!!
2. All the electrical and plumbing for the temple are in a separate building on site connected to the temple by an underground tunnel. This is so the maintenance workers don't have to change clothes to work in the temple and on the equipment.
3. They are building a flat roofed regular sized church building on the site.
4. On the north side of the temple there will be a circular garden the size of 1/2 a football field.
5. Brides have their own door to exit out of the temple to another garden on the south side, complete with a water fountain.
Some boys earning their Eagle Scout built the viewing stand and layed out the walkway with the outline of the temple.  Very cool!

I think I was more fascinated than the children.  The only exciting part for them was realizing that the Angel Moroni will sit as high as the crane that is on site right now.

As we drove away, we all decided to come back each month to see the progress (behind the fences).  I was told that there wasn't supposed to be a visitor center at all.  I am so glad they changed their minds.