Wednesday, January 29, 2014


This is the view of the temple from our apartment, and I haven't zoomed in!  Isn't it incredible! We live in an upstairs apartment so we always have a beautiful view of the temple, the grounds, and the city lights at night. 

Speaking of the grounds...they are beautiful, of course, with a crew of about 10 people cutting, trimming, and washing every day.  Because the wages are so low here, the Church has taken the opportunity to employ many people...the grounds crew, four security guards 24 hours a day, people working in the annex to maintain it, and three separate crews who come into the temple 3 times daily to clean and maintain the interior.  We have 4 security guards around the clock, one at the gate and 3 who walk the grounds constantly.  And I don't know how many other employees, but having the temple here has given many families employment.  We saw a man scrubbing the wrought iron fence last week (around the entire complex) and then this morning another man is cleaning the same fence again.  They scrub the exterior walls of the temple, top to bottom, they scrub the exterior walls on the planters.  Bottom line, they really don't need as many people working but it's providing a living for them and the temple is beautifully maintained.

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