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  I love the peaceful, spiritual feeling of attending the temple. I wish that everyone would seek out its blessings. It helps me to draw closer to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, and to keep an eternal perspective when life is at its most challenging and I might otherwise feel bleak in my outlook. Even just being on the grounds of the temple, I feel that peace.

  Added June 10, 2017 by Phoenix Jano
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  I was raised Mormon. I have been to the visitors center at the DC temple and done baptisms for the dead in temples in Idaho and Utah. Mormon temples are separate from Mormon chapels. Chapels are for Sunday worship. Temples are for performing baptisms for the dead, endowments, sealings, etc. during the week. They encourage you to ask questions about it at their visitors centers.
  
  What they won't tell you about in the visitors center is that secret handshakes are a part of Mormonism and the temple. I didn't know this until after I graduated college and resigned from the church. I felt betrayed when I looked up the YouTube videos of the Mormon temple endowment.
  
  Not because they do anything illegal, to be clear.
  
  Betrayed because some of it was contradictory to what I was taught (for example, I was told that everyone wears all white in the temple. I had no idea that they wore green aprons) and horrified just because there was so much that was kept a secret.
  
  I don't think they should have held back so much information from a young person like me who was being taught that the temple was the most important thing in my religion. As a child, I was taught songs with lyrics like "I love to see the temple/I'm going there some day", I was taught to pay tithing to the church (paying tithing, or 10% of your income for life, is a requirement to enter the temple), and I was always taught to listen to my priesthood leaders (there are other songs like "Follow the Prophet" that still get stuck in my head), who control whether or not members receive a temple recommend and are allowed to go into the temples. It makes me feel very manipulated, like they were trying to control me, now that I know how much they weren't telling me.
  
  Look up the YouTube channel NewNameNoah to see the videos of what happens in Mormon temples that they won't tell you when you visit the visitors center.

  Added March 07, 2017 by Amanda Farrell
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  Beautiful place to visit. The visitor's center is great as well and a great place for kids to go. This is great for anyone, not just those of the LDS Church.

  Added March 01, 2017 by Cody Valdez
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  Great place to feel the spirit. If you have questions about the temple and what goes on talk with the local missionaries at the visitor center next to the temple. This temple is closing March 2018 for renovation on the interior and exterior. It will reopen on 2020 and will have a time where all will be able to enter and tour the temple.

  Added February 27, 2017 by Steven Burila
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  First time entering this church compound except watching it from the belt way. Met three God loving and fearing ladies from Utah and brought them from their hotel in Arlington, VA.
  Had a wonderful chat with them until we reach the Temple. Great experience! Thank God. God is always good.

  Added August 22, 2016 by Worku Seifu