Temple #16 & 1/2

On our way down to Las Vegas we ate lunch in

Cedar City and drove by the temple site.

It is looking pretty good! 

(Estimated to be completed in late 2017)

We then went to the St. George Temple and did sealing's

 I love how white the St. George Temple is!

And how ironic that we finished our temple tour

 in the first temple built in Utah

I have had the opportunity to do the work

 for one of Trayco's ancestor, Mary Ann Ginther.

We were able to seal her to her parents and to her husband

in the St. George Temple!

It has been such a neat experience doing her 

ordinances from the baptism to the sealing. 

The sealing rooms are on the top floor and it was 

SO hot! Me and Trayco were both sweating so bad.

We brought five sealing's to do and they asked us 

to do 12 others. I seriously thought I was 

going to pass out. 

St. George Temple Facts:

The St. George Utah Temple is the oldest operating 

temple of the Church and was the first built in Utah

The St. George Utah Temple is the only temple 

completed during Brigham Young's

 30-year tenure as president of the Church.

With a total of 18 sealing rooms

 (not all are in active use), 

the St. George Utah Temple has more sealing rooms

 than any other temple in the Church.

The St. George Temple was privately dedicated

 on January 1, 1877,

 in a series of three dedicatory prayers: t

he baptistry by Wilford Woodruff, 

the main floor by Erastus Snow, 

and the sealing room by Brigham Young, Jr.

The St. George Utah Temple is the first temple 

where endowments for the dead were performed.

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America

 appeared twice to Wilford Woodruff 

in the St. George Temple

 asking why their temple work had yet not 

been performed on their behalves.