LINDON UTAH TEMPLE
My trip to the Lindon Utah Temple started Friday morning, June 12, when I left Washington DC at 7 AM to fly to Salt Lake City for my 50th high school reunion! I am a proud member of the Orem High School bicentennial graduating class! And when they asked for volunteers to head up the entertainment portion of the reunion last night, I was happy to volunteer.
I put together a 40 slide PowerPoint presentation with mostly trivia questions for my class. Musician Kurt Bestor is in our class and he performed last night. The funnest part is that I acquired 50 $50 gift cards and gave them out to people who answered the trivia questions correctly. It was a big hit! I simply don’t think it could’ve been done any better.
If you wanna have a great experience, walk into a Safeway store and buy 50 $50 gift cards with cash! It’s like Christmas come early! Then even more fun is giving them away to 50 different people and bringing them some happiness too.
My friend Brian Jenkins showed up and played the role of Abraham Lincoln perfectly! He read a customized Gettysburg Address that I wrote about Orem High School and it was a BIG hit.
The reunion was a BIG hit! The next morning I took my daughter Kelly and her family to breakfast at IHOP 🥞. Jake is a new bishop, Kelly is getting a book published, plus running a half-marathon next Saturday! The two girls look great!
Following a successful breakfast with everybody at IHOP, I went to my sister Anne’s house which she’s getting ready to sell. I was thrilled to be able to see three of her kids and even take a walk with my nephew Jack.
The Lindon Utah Temple is only a couple of blocks from my sister Anne’s house. It’s quite large and magnificent! The ceilings inside are some 30 to 40 feet high and it’s very spacious. It’s also one of the new temples that has two baptismal fonts in it.
Perhaps most impressive to me is that they let you in even if you’re just wearing tennis shoes, casual slacks, and a golf shirt! I was quick to go in, rent my clothes, then relax a little bit. Same process exiting at the end of the day! It’s not how you look with God; it’s what’s in your heart…!
As always, beautiful flowers adorn the outside of the temple.
The Lindon Temple was announced in October of 2020 by President Russell M. Nelson. It was dedicated in May 2026 by President Henry B. Eyring. It is the 216th dedicated temple in operation, the 25th temple in Utah, and the 5th temple in Utah County.
What a joy to attend this wonderful temple just a few blocks from where my sister lives!