The Oquirrh Mountain Temple dedication this past Sunday was, for me, the culmination of a wonderful spiritual experience.  Somehow, even sitting in our stake center, I felt as though I was in the temple--the same peace was present.  It brought back memories of attending numerous dedications of this kind over the years.  Each one is amazing. 

I was particularly struck in this temple with the interesting and meaningful symbolism (which I talk about in my article "Oquirrh Mountain Temple - Circles of Eternity").  I was also impressed by the reverence that I sense for this particular temple.  This temple district includes a lot of humble, hard-working saints.  They are obviously grateful and excited to have a new temple in their area. 

I think it would be interesting to compare the temple attendance of the new Draper and Oquirrh Mountain temples.  Both have similar size districts and both are a short drive from anywhere in the temple district.  I propose a friendly competition--who can attend the temple most!  I don't know how we would ever find out those statistics, but it would be fun to see which group is more temple faithful.