Tuesday, August 3, 2010
"Kicked" out of the Temple???
SO has anyone else ever been to the temple and basically been told they don't need you??? Brian was on Saturday. It all began with us trying to go with my friend while she got her endownments out (we are like adopted sisters). We got there on time went to the correct waiting room and realized it was packed! There were almost one hundred people waiting to go to the session we were trying to go to (not counting those in the other chapel). The problem was that the room only held max 95 people. Problem, right? Anyway, Brian and I were a few of the last people trying to leave the room to go to the endownment room. We realized the three people behind us were my friend's uncle, grandpa, and cousin (her grandpa was in a wheel chair so they were all three together). So we graciously let them pass us and we got stopped by the temple workers asking if we could stay out and go to the next session. We agreed since we figured it was better for friends to sit out then for family. So we went to the chapel to wait for the six o'clock session to start. As it turns out the next session was running into the same issue with exactly one hundred people trying to get into the session for family and friend's endownments. The temple workers came into the chapel to see who had been skipped over for the FIVE O'CLOCK session. Can you believe that? Some people had been sitting there for an hour and a half trying to make it to a session. Anyway, we decided to try to go do some sealings or something else and try to meet up with my friend as she finished since it looked like we were going to be waiting in the chapel for another half an hour or more. Then we found out there were seven couples already doing sealings. So there wasn't room for us there. So we decided to try one more thing but Brian was actually turned away from the people there since it wouldn't allow the two of us to get done at the same time because they were already full. As we meet up just outside the dressings rooms to discuss what we found out we just looked at each other. We really didn't know what to say. So we both went and changed and came home after being at the temple for an hour. Let's just say that the first weekend of the temple reopening is not a good time to go to early evening sessions. There can be a lot of people trying to get everything together for their weddings that are coming up the next week. It was a crazy trip but at least we still enjoyed our time. We just decided to try to hit a session this week since we felt horrible about leaving that way but we had already turned everything back in. That is our crazy story of being "kicked" out of the temple. Really we just made a mess and weren't sure what else to do but it was a new situation for everyone, even the workers.
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