Philadelphia Temple Groundbreaking

The Philadelphia Temple groundbreaking will be this Saturday, Sept. 17th, 2011. September 17th is also Constitution Day... the day the Constitution was signed less than two miles away from the temple site! It gives me chills.

Here is a great website showing the timeline, location, etc. It's location was changed due to contamination at the first site, then the city tried to profit from the sale of this land because the land owner hadn't developed it in a certain allotted time frame (that was in local news). That was resolved, along with some zoning changes/approvals, and everything has worked out for the temple to be constructed here.

At Stake Conference a couple of weeks ago, the visiting General Authority talked about how much has happened with the temple plan and how it has changed. The design was altered to make it much bigger because of the location and zoning changes. He told about how our Area Authority would meet with the Church's local (not members of the church) lawyers before every meeting with Civic leaders/organizations and ask if they would join him in prayer before the meeting. They would come out every time just shaking their heads in disbelief and saying, "You got everything you prayed for." A HUGE miracle in Philadelphia, from what I've seen... :)

This session of Stake Conference was exceptionally powerful.

We have seen so much growth in our ward and stake and so many new, strong families have moved here the last couple of months. I can really feel that the Lord is building up our stake/ward/area for this to happen.

This is so exciting!