Temple news....

Ok so we are getting a temple in Indy!!! Here is another update from our corkboard out here....

 

"My husband retired from the building division of the church and called some of his contacts after the announcement...Reg knows more about it, ie. approximate square footage and all....I'm just excited we will not have to drive through Chicago any more!!!! What a blessing!"

 -Sandie M.

 

Until we hear it as a fact, I have to treat this news more as "rumor", we have a large LDS pop in Carmel IN (further east) so that location wouldn't surprise us either...but for now we'll play around with the Avon idea.

 

Jeff and I google mapped Avon, IN. It is 1 hour 11 minutes south of Lafayette and 1 hour 14 minutes North of Bloomington, this means that when we move in two years we will be moving "farther away" from our nearest temple.....:)  We're not to broken up over it though!

 

Just for reference if the traffic to Chicago is good, and you take into consideration an ideal travel time, a weekend, construction etc.... It typically takes us 3 1/2 hours to get to the temple. Then Jeff and I trade on/off the kids to do two sessions, another 5 hours... and then 3 1/2 hours back home....its an all day trip!

 

If we go to KY, then the driving time is basically the same, since we don't have to deal with traffic or construction...either way...going to the temple is a well planned event.

 

We know that the announcement of this temple is not based on our families temple attendance. We've not attended nearly as much as we should have in the past 3 years that we've lived here. But it is because of the faithful saints collectively that have moved in and out of the area, as well as those that have lived here for a really long time, that we are getting this blessing!

 

To echo the words of the song sang just after this announcement, "We thank Thee oh God for Prophet!"