Arizona's newest Temple --Gila Valley

One of my favorite things about my calling, is being able to go on Temple trips with the Youth. I was able to go with them to the Mesa Temple for Baptisms and also to the Christmas lights. Because of Robert's work schedule, Preston and Ava are lucky enough that they pretty much have to go with us wherever we go. We are super excited to have had 3 new Temple's announced for Arizona. The Gila Valley Temple-- which is in Safford/Pima area, the Gilbert and the Phoenix Temple. We have made it our goal to go to all of the open houses. The first completed Temple is a smaller sized Temple 3.5 hours east of us. We love the Safford/Pima area, because Rob spent a lot of time there with his work and we would come up and spend the weekend with him in his hotel room. We hiked the mountains, played in the streams, checked out the historical sites and went to the mine site that Rob worked on. It's also where President Spencer W. Kimball grew up. He prophesied that there would be a Temple there some day. It was neat that they included that information in the video that they play before visitors went inside the Temple. It had a lot of really unique and beautiful art work inside.