This is the Naked Mormon History Tour, Travel Log, March 21st, 2017.

Today I spent the majority of the day in St. George.

There are quite a few hot spots around St. George, and there will be a few videos coming out about this.

I began the day at the St. George Temple, which is an absolutely magnificent building.

I couldn't get enough pictures of it. It's absolutely impressive.

And the history behind that temple is quite fascinating, and I won't divulge too much because

the videos coming out about the St. George Temple will illustrate much more.

But it's a very impressive temple, and it was the first temple that was completed after the

Navu Temple.

So the first temple under Brigham Young's rule.

It wasn't the first announced.

That would be the Salt Lake Temple announced in 1847, if I'm not mistaken.

That was, had the groundbreaking ceremony in 1853, but was then completed in 1893, 40 years later.

And if you look at the size and the magnitude of that temple, it makes sense that it costed the saints so much money and time in order to build it, but the

St. George Temple was essentially what they did to hold them over.

Now, people who are, you know, have been in the church for a long time, will probably say,

oh, I don't, can't believe you didn't know that, but this thing that I didn't know

was there's no moronai on the temple, and that absolutely blew my mind. I had no idea that there was

a Mormon temple in existence, aside from Kirtland and Navu, that didn't have a maronai on it.

But it turns out it's one of like six temples that don't have a maronai.

In fact, the Salt Lake Temple was the first one to have a golden angel maronai put on top of one of the spires.

Really interesting.

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