Why aren't temples open on Sunday?

[Sunday21]

Why aren't temples open on Sunday? I know the answer of course - it is to allow the long suffering temple presidency to attend their meetings and have a well deserved rest.

Down my way, the Toronto temple and the Detroit temple are both really pressed. We have difficulty staffing both these temples. In Detroit we are so despearate for staff that we are allowing people who can only work one shift per month to begin training. Formerly, you had to make an initial commitment to once a week to be trained and after training you could attend monthly. I don't suppose any of the saints out there living near either temple, feel like adding another calling to their list? If you live in a ward that allows you to have one calling, you could use your temple job as a shield to avoid the nursery!

I wonder how we keep going at times. We need more members, sigh. It takes 18 odd years plus 9 months or so to make a temple worker and we are just not converting fast enough. What to do? I live not far from St. Thomas. In this little town the bishop realized that they needed to build a chapel so he opened the yellow pages and asked the missionaries to go in search of converts with the right skills. I wonder if we could do this to find more temple workers. We need kind, well disciplined people to serve in the temple now go find them! 

[Jane_Doe]

21 minutes ago, Sunday21 said:

Why aren't temples open on Sunday?

Because on Sunday people should be in their local chapels, partaking of the Sacrament, and growing in their ward.  

(I don't mean to derail your we-need-temple-workers theme, but it is the answer to the question). 

 

 

[Sunday21]

9 minutes ago, Jane_Doe said:

Because on Sunday people should be in their local chapels, partaking of the Sacrament, and growing in their ward.  

(I don't mean to derail your we-need-temple-workers theme, but it is the answer to the question). 

 

 

But after the 3 hour block we could go to the temple! The ancient temples were open on the sabbath! But maybe they did not have the 3 hour block ...?

[Jane_Doe]

Just now, Sunday21 said:

But after the 3 hour block we could go to the temple! The ancient temples were open on the sabbath! But maybe they did not have the 3 hour block ...?

LOL  Day of rest though.  

[Sunday21]

Just now, Jane_Doe said:

LOL  Day of rest though.  

You can nap in the temple! I have heard snoring!

[askandanswer]

I don't quite understand the question. You're saying how pressed you are for temple staff but you are advocating for longer opening hours? Wouldn't that simply exacerbate the staffing shortage? It sounds instead of encouraging members to go to the Temple on Sundays, they should be encouraged to go out and do missionary work instead. 

[Sunday21]

I would like to go to the temple on Sundays or work there. Also would like more staff. Also would like...hmm what else can I wish for? Actually our stake president urged us to attend the temple in such numbers that we are given our own temple. Apparently this worked for some location in the states...Jordan River?

[Jedi_Nephite]

19 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

Why aren't temples open on Sunday? I know the answer of course - it is to allow the long suffering temple presidency to attend their meetings and have a well deserved rest.

Down my way, the Toronto temple and the Detroit temple are both really pressed. We have difficulty staffing both these temples. In Detroit we are so despearate for staff that we are allowing people who can only work one shift per month to begin training.

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Do you work at the Detroit Temple?  I'm just curious because my mother is a Temple worker there.  If you have been to the Detroit Temple, you may have met her.

[Sunday21]

2 minutes ago, Jedi_Nephite said:

Do you work at the Detroit Temple?  I'm just curious because my mother is a Temple worker there.  If you have been to the Detroit Temple, you may have met her.

PM

[Fether]

20 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

Why aren't temples open on Sunday? I know the answer of course - it is to allow the long suffering temple presidency to attend their meetings and have a well deserved rest.

Down my way, the Toronto temple and the Detroit temple are both really pressed. We have difficulty staffing both these temples. In Detroit we are so despearate for staff that we are allowing people who can only work one shift per month to begin training. Formerly, you had to make an initial commitment to once a week to be trained and after training you could attend monthly. I don't suppose any of the saints out there living near either temple, feel like adding another calling to their list? If you live in a ward that allows you to have one calling, you could use your temple job as a shield to avoid the nursery!

I wonder how we keep going at times. We need more members, sigh. It takes 18 odd years plus 9 months or so to make a temple worker and we are just not converting fast enough. What to do? I live not far from St. Thomas. In this little town the bishop realized that they needed to build a chapel so he opened the yellow pages and asked the missionaries to go in search of converts with the right skills. I wonder if we could do this to find more temple workers. We need kind, well disciplined people to serve in the temple now go find them! 

I bet if we fully understood the blessings of the temple, we would have no probablem or complaint of keeping one open just for a single person (assuming if of course keeping that open didn't interfere with other more populated temples staying open).

I bet Heavenly Father has some amazing blessings for those temple workers that sacrifice so much to keep the temple running in places like Detroit"

I wonder if we should be praying for the temple workers as much as we pray for missionaries

Keep it up!

[Fether]

15 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

 our stake president urged us to attend the temple in such numbers that we are given our own temple. Apparently this worked for some location in the states...Jordan River?

I wish that could happen in my home town! It's much larger than Cedar City and Cedar City has their temple almost finished ?.

But from what I hear, my home town makes up a large portion of the SLC temple

[seashmore]

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I bet if we fully understood the blessings of the temple, we would have no probablem or complaint of keeping one open just for a single person (assuming if of course keeping that open didn't interfere with other more populated temples staying open).

@Fether I literally told my YW today (well, the two who were there) about a time where I was the only patron in a baptism session. As a YSA, I had called ahead and added my name to a ward's youth session on a Saturday because I didn't have anything else scheduled and knew I would need a reason to get out of bed (yay, depression). For whatever reason, that ward didn't show up. I was perfectly content waiting a couple of hours for the next one, but the member of the temple presidency caught wind and came down to tell me something like "if a cow comes to be fed, we feed it." (It was obvious he had an agricultural background and was not intending to offend.) They rounded up two other endowed temple workers, and I ended up doing 25 names. (My YW joked that must make me a 25 cow wife, which explains why I'm single.) 

When I was an ordinance worker at the Winter Quarters temple, almost all of the sealing sessions on week nights were compromised only of ordinance workers. There was at least one endowment session where everyone except for one was there as a temple worker with the assignment of "patron." While I appreciate the great testimony of love I gained from those experiences, they also make me kind of sad.