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Article link.     LDS temples grow ever closer to members | Deseret News Article by:  Tad Walch, Editor, Deseret News Photo credit:  Jason Swensen, Deseret News This is the latest Deseret News article printed today which focuses on the blessings of having a Mormon/LDS Temple closer to home.  SPOILER ALERT:  ummm, I'm in it (running away to hide behind the sofa, LOL)--such a humbling experience.  I'm grateful to be able to share my perspective as a SO FLA LDS member, growing up quite far away from a Mormon Temple. Enjoy :) Eliza Article's photo slideshow  http://www.deseretnews.com/photo/gallery/story/865612022/LDS-temples-grow-ever-closer-to-members.html?photoId=1414987

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/fort-lauderdale-florida-temple

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/florida-governor-visits-fort-lauderdale-temple Photo credits:  Mitzi Donderis  Capote

New Mormon temple soon to open in Davie: http://www.local10.com/news/new-mormon-church-davie/-/1717324/25132978/-/op4a6y/-/index.html  Shared from Local10.com via the mobile app for Android. http://www.local10.com/ Download our mobile apps at: http://www.local10.com/news/Local-10-App-Now-Available-For-Mobile-Devices/3082720

Official Fact Sheet on the Fort Lauderdale Temple

Note:   OK, this is mushy me again, but from a different place...   You see, I began writing this after hearing my hubby talk about his experiences when he served as a full-time missionary for our church down in Argentina in the mid-1990s.  Listening to his stories filled with inspirational, transformational experiences, emotional tears, and personal reflections, I  caught a slight glimpse into the journey he took--before, during, and after his mission, and the sacrifice, the service, and the extreme joys and sorrows he must have gone through.  There I was--totally speechless (and those of you who know me pretty well know how RARE that I am ever speechless)...I "sat All Amazed" at this man sitting across from me, bearing his soulful experiences and reflections.... One evening after listing to his mission stories,  noting especially the hardships he experienced as he tried making the transition back into regular life after his mission e...

Here I sit, back at work, another ordinary work week.... However ordinary it may be, I am grateful to have a cup overflowing once more, and I've spent the past couple of days digesting what exactly has filled my cup, my heart, and my soul.... Well, we had Stake Conference in my Stake this past weekend--for the Pompano Beach Florida Stake--and I found myself hardly able to wait to hear the speakers and the messages.  I feel like I've been running on empty lately, basically barely making it on the spiritual fumes in my nearly bone-dry tank.   Why was my "tank" bone-dry, you might ask? Part of it circumstantial, part of it my own tendencies to "shrink back" to regroup when faced with stressful, difficult, or unpleasant things, and part of it was simply time.  T-I-M-E (or, as one speaker referenced, "how love is spelled in today's world:  T-I-M-E.").  We have Stake Conference twice a year, and it was simply that time again to hear from our l...

I love listening to the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional, and I look forward to it every year.  It fills me up with that warm, gooey feeling, even if it's from a satellite broadcast.  Watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform, catching glimpses of panned shots of Temple Square superbly lit up and decorated, completely blanketed in snow...awww, it makes me remember way-back-when, when I lived out there for a stint as a college kid attending BYU ::sniff sniff, getting a bit misty-eyed:::... I just LOVE IT! Listening to the First Presidency give their respective talks never fails to amaze me and marvel at the incredible power, simplicity, and love they convey in their words--each very different in their flavor; but, combined, make such a delightful spiritual feast of the sweetest flavor to my very soul. This year, my favorite talk was from President Uchtdorf, and one of his quotes especially hit me: "“If we look for the good, we can see this time ...

OK, first of all, I’m am amateur—I really feel like I have absolutely NO IDEA what I’m doing out of bed, let alone behind a car, a computer, a book, etc…. When I get to oogle on Google and muck around through the incredibly vast world of online publishing across this little blue planet we inhabit, it totally amazes and overwhelms me—not underwhelm, not whelm, OVERWHELM even.  Here’s why. You never know who’s reading what these days, nor who’s writing what. I’m not trying to scare anyone with Big Brother or Wiki Leaks conspiracy stuff; it’s just a fact of life.  Truly, people—readers, writers, performers, audiences—all across the world are on a LEVEL playing field, so to speak.  The virtual world is indeed your oyster. So, now more than ever, putting it out there is becoming more and more important—but how you put yourself out there needs to be just as varied as the multiple platforms out there.  Someone like myself, who is navigating the creative writing waters...

I'm a shield and protection, my choice and election unsure-- Yet, it Pure, purely burns inward, turns. Lesson learns me to FEEL...BE... CONSUME all the air in the room-- It's too much, much too soon…. Why right now? I'm not ready. But, HOW? How to harness this truth? And I stand, taken in, with a spin. It begins…. Knowing grin-- I can't win. Full of sin Pumping thick in my blood…. So I stand, Lock my love into. Me. Gaze above…. And it's real, really there in my flesh, tries to tear, Bear me up deep inside through my Spirit's divide. Promptings strong, wake my night-- I must now Testify, bare my soul, Choose the Right by the Light of the Moon. Shadows soon catch the tune of my thoughts. Make, immune me from turning away— So I stay at the Front And I pray, Pray my feet give no way-- Flex my faith In the Dawn of the Son. Feeble crust of His Bread Tastes pure hope in my head. Soaks me up to the...