The Phoenix Temples - March 14

 Wee Bambi the Trailer had a mild leak in the shower.  Minor, but enough to be dang annoying:  the floor of the shower was constantly wet and the water pump regularly cranked so as to keep up the pressure.  Alas, it's seriously difficult to find an opening at an Airstream repair shop short of three to four weeks out.  We got lucky, however, with a massive dealership in Phoenix who got us in post haste and fixed the leak while we were attending three temples today.  Bambi is good to go again.  This gi-normous dealership had every Airstream model imaginable on their showroom floor, a veritable  Disneyland of Airstreams.  Aaron and I ducked into most of them mainly out of curiosity.  In the end, I came away happiest with my own wee Bambi; I wouldn't change a thing about my precious trailer.  


Was a blowout day for temples...three in one day.  That's a record for us.  First we enjoyed the spectacularly gorgeous Gilbert AZ Temple, constructed in 2014.  It's quite a large temple and was just too dang beautiful to describe - inside and out.  








Next in line was the very old and comfortable Mesa AZ Temple.  Built in 1927, this is one of the original twelve temples which, when I was a wee tyke, retired Mormon couples made their goal to attend.  Imagine that...visiting all twelve temples in the world.  Currently, there are 244 operating temples in the world, so we've come a very long way in my short lifetime.  The Mesa Temple is particularly sweet to me as it's the one I attended while living in Phoenix in 1980-82.   Was quite poignant to visit again.  It's small and quaint and ... well, comfortable.






Finally we made it to the exquisite Phoenix AZ Temple for an evening session.  Again, the beauty and craftsmanship of the temples defies my limited ability to adequately describe.  Suffice it to say that sitting in the celestial room this evening with Aaron (where we have made a habit to share a prayer together) I was loathe to leave; we could have stayed there all evening drinking in the quiet beauty and spiritual ambiance of that lofty room with its stained-glass ceiling.








Off tomorrow on new adventures as we head south to the border and Organ Pipe National Monument.

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