Tour INSIDE A Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!! REALLY!!

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has record numbers of temples being built across the world!  There may be one being built in YOUR area.

Before a temple is dedicated - they have and "Open House" for the public to tour INSIDE the temple.  Once the open house has ended, the will close and the public tours have ended.

There are a couple of ways to find a temple in your area. Click this link:

Temple Open Houses and Dedications

You can also go to the "newsroom", which has all the up-to-date happenings - but you will need to scroll through everything else listed to also see the temples listed.

NEWSROOM

"Good to know" info below - these were done specifically for the San Diego, CA temple, so there is reference to that temple specifically.  Their open house was June 18 through July 11, 2026.  It was rededicated after this first remodel.

After a temple is first built, there is an open house.

After a remodel also there is an open house.

If all the workers on a temple remodel are good standing members, the temple does not need to be rededicated and an open house does not happen!

 

Causes of the GREAT DEPRESSION

 

Lessons From Grandpa

My Dear Child,

The day you have no one but God, is the day you realize you need no one but God.

You cannot afford to give up.

You don't have a backkup.

You ARE the backup.

G - get

R - rid

O - of old

W - ways

The first dollar you save teaches you more than the first hundred you spend.

When I was your age, I thought rich people had some secret.  Turns out the secret was just:  SPEND LESS THAN YOU MAKE - and do that for a very long time.  Nobody wants to hear that because it isn't exciting.  But excitement isn't what builds a fortune, patience is.

I've made plenty of mistakes, more than I'll ever tell you about at dinner.  But I never once regretted being patient.  

I regretted being in a hurry.  I regretted skipping the boring parts. 

Patience never once made a fool out of me.

A quiet life, well built, beats a loud one every time.

A good reputation takes decades and one bad afternoon to lose.

A legacy isn't a number.  It's a way of doing things that outlives you.

                                            Love Grandpa

From Instagram  millionaire.grandpa

Presidents That Established National Holidays

Presidents can’t just create a new national holiday on their own. Most of the time, it starts with pressure from the public, activists, states, or members of Congress. Then a bill has to pass through both the House and Senate before it reaches the president’s desk. If the president signs it, that holiday becomes part of federal law.

That process has shaped some of the most familiar days on the American calendar. 

Grover Cleveland signed Labor Day into law in 1894 after years of organizing by the labor movement. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the law that fixed Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November in 1941, decades after Abraham Lincoln helped turn it into a national tradition during the Civil War. 

Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1968, which moved several holidays to Mondays and helped create the long weekend system Americans still know today.

More recent holidays went through the same system, but only after long political fights. 

Ronald Reagan signed Martin Luther King Jr. Day into law in 1983, fifteen years after King was assassinated. 

Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into law in 2021, making it the first new federal holiday since MLK Day. 

Each one started as a cause, became a bill, survived the politics, and ended with a president’s signature.

From Instagram historyistimeless

How The Founding Fathers Died

The Founding Fathers are usually remembered through portraits, monuments, and speeches, but their final days were often far messier than the legends around them.

Alexander Hamilton died after being shot in a duel with Aaron Burr, with the bullet passing through his liver and lodging near his spine.

George Washington died from a severe throat infection after his doctors drained a massive amount of blood from his body in a desperate attempt to save him.

Some of the deaths were almost hard to believe - Gouverneur Morris died after reportedly trying to treat a urinary blockage with a whalebone from his wife’s corset, which caused injuries that became infected.

Patrick Henry, suffering from stomach cancer, swallowed liquid mercury as a treatment and reportedly watched the poison spread beneath his fingernails as his condition worsened.

The strangest part is how many of these deaths came with eerie timing.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Jefferson had been asking if it was the Fourth, while Adams’ last words were said to be, “Thomas Jefferson survives,” not knowing Jefferson had died hours earlier.

James Monroe later died on July 4 as well, making him the third president to die on Independence Day.

TWO KINDS OF HUNGER - WHICH ONE TRULY SATISFIES?

The Bushmen of the Kalahari speak of two kinds of hunger.

The first is the small hunger. The hunger for food. The simple, physical need to put something in your body so you can keep going, keep breathing, keep living.

But there is another hunger. A deeper one. They call it the great hunger.

It is the hunger for meaning. The hunger that does not live in the stomach, but in the chest and the bones. The kind you feel in quiet moments, in the silence behind your eyes. It is the need to belong, to matter, to understand why you are here at all.

Laurens van der Post, the man in this photograph, spent years living among the Bushmen. He did not go to teach. He went to listen. To learn. To remember things the modern world has slowly forgotten.

He once said that the most dangerous thing in life is not sadness. It is emptiness. The slow erosion that happens when a person lives without meaning.

So many of us spend our lives chasing money, status, comfort. We chase happiness as if it is the final destination. But happiness comes and goes. Meaning stays.

When you are doing something that truly matters to your soul, it does not matter if you feel good all the time. You feel grounded. You feel connected. You feel part of something larger than yourself.

And in that belonging, even hardship begins to carry purpose.

This photograph is not just a meeting between two men. It is a quiet meeting between two ways of being. One that remembers we are not only bodies that need to be fed, but spirits that need to be fulfilled.

And maybe that is the hunger we have been trying to satisfy all along.

The PIONEER of AI Sends A POINTED Message To All . . .

Talk starts at 52 seconds

 
Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of deep learning and often referred to as the "Godfather of AI," used the international spotlight of his 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to issue a grave warning about the technology he helped create. 

While acknowledging the immense benefits AI can bring to fields like medicine and productivity, he stressed that the rapid pace of development has introduced existential risks. His core fear is that within two decades, AI systems will surpass human intelligence, leading to an uncontrollable digital consciousness that could potentially make humanity irrelevant or even pose a physical threat.

Hinton's disturbing message centered on the difficulty of controlling an intelligence that is significantly smarter than its creators. He resigned from his position at Google to speak more openly about these dangers, arguing that companies are being pushed by market pressure to prioritize capability over safety. He has repeatedly called for urgent, collaborative research into AI safety and control mechanisms, emphasizing that without strong, global regulation—which he believes only governments can enforce against industry lobbying—humanity risks an unprecedented crisis where "digital beings" take control.

Winnie The Pooh! Was A Real Bear??!!

 
After World War I, Lieutenant Harry Colebourn returned to Canada and resumed his career as a veterinarian — the profession he’d been training for before the war. He settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he worked for the Department of Agriculture, caring for livestock and continuing his veterinary practice.

Colebourn lived a quiet life and rarely spoke publicly about the famous bear he once owned. He never reclaimed Winnie from the London Zoo, recognizing that she was happy there and beloved by the public. 🍯

Robyn Williams - His Wonderful - Secret - Acts of Service

 

In the late ’90s, in a quiet pediatric ward in San Francisco, a nurse paused outside a room—tears filling her eyes.
Inside, a young boy with terminal cancer was laughing so hard, he forgot the pain.
And the man making him laugh?
Robin Williams.

Wearing oversized scrubs, a red clown nose, and a stethoscope that squeaked, he danced, joked, and transformed tragedy into joy.

🩺 No cameras.
📸 No press.
Just Robin.
A man with a broken heart trying to heal others.

He called no publicists.
He simply asked nurses quietly:
“Are there any kids who need a smile today?”

Sometimes he brought puppets.
Sometimes he came as Mrs. Doubtfire.
And sometimes, he just sat on the floor holding their hands.


💔 One nurse remembered a visit in 2003.
A 10-year-old boy had days to live.
Robin stayed over an hour—conducting an invisible orchestra with IV poles, singing opera to the rhythm of beeping monitors.
The child’s father—who hadn’t cried in weeks—broke down.
Not in grief, but in relief.
Because for a moment…
his son felt like a child again.

Robin never spoke of these visits.
Not once.
Not in interviews.
Not on stage.
Not in his memoir.

He didn’t go to perform.
He went to connect.
To love.
To remind children—many near the end—that they were still alive.


In 2006, in Denver, he drove an hour to meet a teenage girl whose favorite movie was Aladdin.
When he walked in and spoke in the Genie’s voice, her whole face lit up.
They spoke for over an hour.
She died two weeks later.
But in her final days, she had magic.

🌈 These visits were sacred.
No audience.
No applause.
Only love.

Afterward, Robin would sit alone in his car.
Sometimes crying.
Sometimes just breathing.
He carried their pain with him.

Hospitals across America knew:
If Robin was in town, there might be a quiet knock.
Not to be seen.
But to serve.

He never healed disease.
But he healed something else.
He gave children a moment to feel alive—even while dying.

And that…
is what made Robin Williams the most human of us all.


📿 Sometimes the loudest acts of love are the ones done in silence.

The ONLY American NOT on the Planet On Sept 1, 2001

On September 11, 2001, the only American not on the planet was Frank Culbertson, 250 miles up, commanding the International Space Station with 2 Russian cosmonauts.

He was on a routine medical call with his flight surgeon in Houston. He asked how things were going. The answer was "not very well," and then the doctor told him what had happened in New York and Washington.

Culbertson looked at the map. The station was coming out of Canada and would pass over New England in a few minutes. He grabbed a video camera, found a window, and filmed a gray column of smoke drifting south off Manhattan. He didn't know yet exactly what he was looking at. He said later it was like seeing a wound in the side of his country.

He wrote in a letter home: "It's difficult to describe how it feels to be the only American completely off the planet at a time such as this."

The next day the ground told him the rest. The captain of the American Airlines jet flown into the Pentagon was Chic Burlingame, Naval Academy class of 1971, the same as his. They had met as plebes in the Drum and Bugle Corps, both trumpet players, and sat through the same classes. Both went on to fly Navy fighters.

"What a terrible loss, but I'm sure Chic was fighting bravely to the end," Culbertson wrote. "And tears don't flow the same in space."

He had brought his trumpet to the station to play when the day's work was done.

On September 16 he floated into the Quest airlock and played Taps for his friend. NASA photographed it. The recording was sent down to Earth for the class of 1971's 30-year reunion.

Culbertson came home on December 17, after 129 days in space. Burlingame had been buried at Arlington 5 days earlier.

NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson was serving as the commander of Expedition 3 aboard the International Space Station and was indeed the only American off the planet.

What He Witnessed From Space

• The Vantage Point: Orbiting roughly 250 miles above Earth, Culbertson learned of the terrorist attacks via a call from Mission Control in Houston.

• The Sight: As the space station passed over the East Coast of the United States, he looked out the window and saw a massive plume of smoke rising from Lower Manhattan in New York City.

• The Crew: He shared the station with two Russian cosmonauts (Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin), who joined him at the windows with profound sympathy and outrage as they passed over the U.S.