Next Stop, Oakland Temple

This is now one of my most favorite temples. I love the carvings of the last supper and Christ's coming to the Americas. It was a perfect day to go too. The breeze was blowing just enough to make it nice and cool. On our way from San Francisco to here we were able to drive on the Bay Bridge. Awesome bridge! We went over so many bridges and through so many tunnels Aine is obsessed with them. I wish we had some around here so I could give her the pleasure of driving them again.

Anyways it was really nice to leave the chaos of San Francisco and go to this temple. Did you know that they have their own visitor center and a tri-stake center on the lot? Spencer thinks the center had like 23,000 seats or something. It felt like there should have been more going on with so many church buildings. But the temple was closed and they were working on the tri-stake center. So, it was actually kind of quite.

The temple, of course, is placed on a hill. You can see if from everywhere and the views from up there into the bay were beautiful. This was probably one of my favorite stops of the trip.

This part of the temple grounds was really cool. They had a scripture on the wall of the temple from the Book of Mormon in 3 Nephi 17 where Christ commands them to bring their children. It was sweet to have our kids their and to feel like they were wanted there. Sometimes the temple feels like such a sacred and quite place I feel a little nervous about bringing my noisy kids to see it. This was especially the case that day when they had been riding around a lot in the car and just wanted to get out and jump around and play. But after bringing them forward to the temple and reading this scripture I remembered how much Christ loves the children, even their playfulness and noise.