607. Provo City Center Temple Dedication, and my chance to play the Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ.
Today brought back many memories of various times in my life. I have been to 2 Temple dedications, as I remember, of temples dedicated here in Utah, via watching on a large screen in our chapel. Also the beautiful hymn, my favorite, "The Spirit of God" was sung, and I have a special story about that. Those of my readers, did you hear, about 5 years ago of the really elegant tabernacle, with spires, etc., in Provo which burned down, with only the shell of brick remaining? It was quite a landmark at the time, and many important people, musicians, Church, etc., had spoken and entertained there. Well, awhile after they decided to revive it, and make it into a Temple. It was quite an undertaking, as only the brink walls remained. They had to secure them, and do a lot to keep them from falling down, while they totally rebuilt the interior. The temple by the MTC is used so much by the missionaries this gives patrons from the town somewhere else to go.