We paid a visit to the Gilbert Temple site after church today. We had been trying to go on first Sundays but for whatever reason, we hadn't been down in a couple of months. I hope they realize that in addition to us, there will be other curious
lookie-loos and it would be great for us to have a viewing platform at some point so we don't have to hoist the little ones up on our shoulders go see the progress, but I didn't mind hoisting him up so much...
The
Redlands California Temple had a senior missionary couple assigned to the construction site for that very reason. They had fun facts and activities for visitors and even stayed late on Mondays for Family Home Evening visitors- I guess that's technically Family OUT Evening. They invited children and families from all of the stakes in the new
Redlands Temple district to bring a rock out to the construction site and put a family signature on it or a favorite scripture or quote and they were
ultimately buried in the foundation of the fountain out front.
He's pointing and describing some features to me not realizing that I can see through the screen just fine.
This below ground portion will be where the Temple
baptistry will be. In Christianity, a baptism is by immersion and the font should be below adjacent ground level. It's symbolic of death and burial and that sounds a bit morbid as written here but it's a reminder that the old sinful self is dead and buried in Christ and then the new person is symbolically
resurrected as they come out of the water clean and new.
Now that we can see the footprint of the temple, I'm surprised that it is rather close to the intersection of Pecos and Greenfield Rd. I just imagined it further back on the property. There are major power poles going all directions at that intersection and I know that usually the church attempts to avoid- when it can- being adjacent to a radio aereal or a other visual architectural distractions so that the Temple really stands out, visually, as the beacon to the world that it is, spiritually. I did note a couple of new towers being constructed some distance away that I theorize/wonder if they will be used to route the cables underground in the vicinity of the temple before the construction is complete. Stay tuned.
This below ground portion will be where the Temple baptistry will be. In Christianity, a baptism is by immersion and the font should be below adjacent ground level. It's symbolic of death and burial and that sounds a bit morbid as written here but it's a reminder that the old sinful self is dead and buried in Christ and then the new person is symbolically resurrected as they come out of the water clean and new. 
Now that we can see the footprint of the temple, I'm surprised that it is rather close to the intersection of Pecos and Greenfield Rd. I just imagined it further back on the property. There are major power poles going all directions at that intersection and I know that usually the church attempts to avoid- when it can- being adjacent to a radio aereal or a other visual architectural distractions so that the Temple really stands out, visually, as the beacon to the world that it is, spiritually. I did note a couple of new towers being constructed some distance away that I theorize/wonder if they will be used to route the cables underground in the vicinity of the temple before the construction is complete. Stay tuned.
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