I love to see the temple :)

  I am LDS. I love my religion with all my heart and soul. I believe it is true and I believe the values and lessons I have learned from my church has made me the woman I am today. As some may know, in the LDS church has temples all around the world. These temples are sacred and beautiful places that we as members cherish. You have to admit, if you have ever seen a LDS temple (even if you are not Mormon) that they are beautiful buildings. Well I have said that my goal is to visit all the LDS temples in the world. Now realistically that will be very challenging, due to the fact that more get called each year, and there is already over like 140 (I am not totally sure). That would be super hard. But I am not calling defeat quite yet. I will try my best as I live my life on this earth to go to every temple. And for me I just want to take a picture in front of it. If I get a chance while I am there to go inside, great, if not at least I got to see the outside beauty and take a picture.
   I have actually visited a lot lately, with all of our adventuous traveling, we decided we would stop at any temple on our way... if we remembered. haha It has been fun seeing the different temples. Some are bigger than others, but they are all unique and so special! So I wanted to show you the ones that I have been to and a fun fact about them.

The Temples I Have Visited:

1. Los Angeles California: This was the first temple I ever went to. Now this was before my plan so I do not have a picture of me but I feel like you should still get to see it...So here is one I just found on Google.
   
2. Salt Lake City, Utah: This temple took the Saints 40 years to make. It made with granite, and reminds everyone of a castle. What  do you think? Also, every year around Christmas they have lights everywhere and millions of people visit every year to see. It is so pretty at Christmas time.
   
   
3. Jordan River, Utah: The day this picture was taken, we went together as cousins and when we got out there was a thunder and lightning storm and it looked legit when lightning stuck behind the temple.
   
4. Oquirrh Mountain, Utah: This is the first "smaller" temple I went to. Yeah it still looks huge. haha And actually one night days after the angel Moroni (some of the temples have a golden person with a horn on top, if you want to know more about him and his story check out lds.org or mormon.org I promise you can find out there) was put on the temple, there was a thunder and lightning storm and it got struck by lightning and it had to be replaced.
   
   
5. Draper, Utah: Fun story, came here with a group of friends when it was first open (well it had only been open for a couple of months) and it was already closed for cleaning.. opps. haha
   
6. Brigham City, Utah: This is the newest dedicated temple for Utah. My roommate Kelsey and I got to go just months after it opened. We went early, lack of sleep, so we forgot a picture. Again you still need to see the beauty. Google is seriously AMAZING!
   
7. St. George, Utah: People think that Salt Lake was the first temple in Utah. Well you are mistaken, this temple was actually the first temple in the state and still sits on its original foundation.
   
8. Manti, Utah: I got to see this temple everyday while I was going to school at Snow College. Fun Fact, the roof is designed like a bottom of a boat. I guess that is what you get when you have Scandinavians build a temple.
   
9. Newport Beach, California: This is the temple I want to one day marry in. When I was younger and it was being built, they had all the kids write on a rock their name and favorite scripture, and the put it in the temple. So apart of me is in there and I want my special day to be there. Its my favorite one.
   
10. Reno, Nevada: Seriously the smallest temple I have ever seen. It is on a hill and it makes you wonder if it is a temple or a large house. But again super pretty.
    
11. Oakland, California: It is such a cool and pretty temple. You can see the whole valley from the temple and the whole valley can see the temple. 
    
12. Sacramento, California: There is a park on the temple grounds. Like with picnic tables, park bathrooms (probably the cleanest park bathrooms ever) and everything! I aboslutely loved it there.
    
13. Boise, Idaho: This is a very different temple. The spire or thing, is not connected to the building which weirded me out not going to lie, but I love how different it is. And side note, I was in sweats that day and there was a wedding (not of anyone I knew) and I felt so weird and under dressed. haha Traveling all day what can you expect?

 Some of the pictures are not of the whole temple, I guess if you really want to see, google! haha Seriously though I love how all of them are super different and yet are all for the same purpose. I feel like that is like people. There is seriously no two people that are the exact same. There is something different about each and every one of us, yet we are the same and have the same purpose, to live to the best of our abilities, to do what we strive for, make goals, fall in love, have a family, make a happy life and one day pass on into the next life. :) See what I did there? haha but seriously, I have all these random things to say about each temple, but they all have the same purpose. Same with people. We are all different. Some are different religions, some see things differently, but we all have a lot of the same purposes.
  I really do love visiting new temples. Seeing the different beauty it brings to the surrounding area. From a far I have seen a lot, but I do not count them because I want to step foot on the property. So until than 13 down, somewhere around 120 to go. Maybe more or maybe less. But hey it gives me an excuse to travel right?! :)