Rexburg Temple Open House!

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Joe and I were able to attend the open house to the Rexburg temple last night and it was very very busy! It was the second to last night to attend so they were trying to get everyone through that they possibly could. They actually didn't check any one's tickets at this open house there was so much interest that they were just letting people come in. I am so glad that they were able to accommodate so many people and it will be interesting to see how many people came through. They had given out 150,000 tickets then released a bunch more to try and accommodate all the interest, then they decided to just let people come through. The tour guide we had said that they had already had about 10,000 people through in the morning on Friday.
The stain glass windows are so beautiful with the wheat grain pattern to represent our area, that theme continues throughout in the floors and the art work. I am so excited to have two temples so close. We are so blessed!
It is kinda hard to see but in the picture of the church there is a tent that was covering the walk way from the church up to the temple they had covered the whole walk way and they were heating it to try and keep people warm. Being that with the wind chill the other day it was -34.