Yesterday, Ross and I attended (because he had to set up the stake center) the satellite broadcats of the "South Jordan, Utah Temple" groundbreaking. I had never been witness to such an event before and it was very interesting.
Perhaps the most interesting part was when President Hinkley spoke, announcing a new name for the Temple. He said that after much deliberation, the Temple would not be called the South Jordan, Utah Temple because that would be too confusing with the Jordan River Temple. So, the new name of the temple will be the Oquirrh Mountain, Utah Temple. Pretty cool and a great recognition for the West side of the valley that I have called home for my entire life. After the announcemnt, the Prophet cracked a joke saying that no one will be able to spell Oquirrh, but they can't spell Timpanogos either...and some people probablly can't even spell Salt Lake. But, he said, we don't go to the temple to spell.
The entire ground breaking was over in about 40 minutes and we had a couple hundred people at our stake center to watch. It would have been most excellent to witness the event first hand, in the big tent they set up on the bluff where the Temple will be located, but being able to watch it "live" via satellite was pretty cool, too. It's not every day that a temple is literally built in your neighborhood, just up the street.
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