I've been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (i.e. I'm a Mormon) for all my life, and if you didn't know that by now... well, where have you been?
Seriously, though, I love being a Mormon, and one of the aspects of the LDS faith is that we have these things called temples. Without going into too much detail for now, as I plan to do so next month, temples are a place we consider to be holy – we call each one "The House of the Lord." Every single one I've been to, every time I've been, I've found that I immediately feel peace. I feel calm. I feel at home.
Below are pictures (some of which I took myself, noted by a * if you're curious) of all of the temples I've visited. It's near impossible for me to choose a favorite one, because they're all simply beautiful and special to me in their own way.
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| Provo, Utah* |
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| Mt. Timpanogos, Utah* |
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| Seattle, Washington |
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| São Paulo, Brazil |
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| San Diego, California |
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| Salt Lake City, Utah |
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| St. Louis, Missouri |
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| Oakland, California |
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| Campinas, Brazil |
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| Porto Alegre, Brazil* |
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| Manti, Utah |
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| Nauvoo, Illinois |
This post will be edited in the future as I visit more temples – currently, there are 143 temples in use around the world, with 27 currently being built or previously announced.
I mentioned above that I'll go into detail next month about what temples are, because November (being the month of Thanksgiving) will be my "grateful posts" month. Every day I'm going to talk about something I'm grateful for, and temples are definitely on that list.
