San Antonio Texas Temple — Local services in San Antonio

The grounds around the temple are for ALL (not limited to any faith) and such a peaceful “getaway” from city life. It’s free to go in during open hours to soak in the beauty, ponder, meditate, identify plants and birds, sit under the trees, climb on the rocks. (There are fun nooks in the rocks next to the lower parking lot where I love to read and soak in the beautiful trees and flowers. Kids LOVE to explore here.)

And to walk around the temple and see the incredible architecture, beautiful stained glass depicting various locations in scripture, water fountains...it’s breathtaking. Members of the Church believe a temple is the Lord’s house and a gift to all who go inside and appreciate the grounds. The temple has inscribed in the front “Holiness to the Lord” as was inscribed on Solomon’s temple.

Stain glass windows and steeple (glow at night!) Local dark wood (interior) with a water “fall” in the lobby. Window into the baptistery from lobby

🔹 Disability-friendly. Call ahead of time to explain your needs for the best results. This temple presidency (2018-2020) is aware and willing to do whatever they can to make the experience for the one, meaningful. The more time they have to arrange / train / brainstorm, the more smooth your experience will be. While the sweet temple volunteers may not understand everything about your situation, they do get good trainings on accessibility and how to support a variety of temple patrons with various backgrounds, disabilities, mental illness. (I am not sure about the baptismal font as I have spent my time in other parts of the temple.)

🔸 Anxiety Pros. Small sessions. Individual seats. Each small row has an aisle seat and a wall seat. When doing sealings, you can reverently come in or slip out between any ordinance as you please. Initiatory booths are a little tight but not bad. Dressing room is often crowded; may be able to use bathroom with lockers at temple entrance (left before recommend desk) to change into whites.

Doing temple work too overwhelming right now? Waiting room just inside the front doors to the right where you can sit and read. 📖 Remember the lame man who sat outside the temple his whole life asking for alms. But he had the right focus because the moment he was healed, he immediately went inside :)

🔹 Deaf-friendly Progress. They are training ASL temple workers now. ASL sessions are starting soon (~2020). The more who come (Deaf and hearing wanting to join), the more often sessions will be held.

🔸 Blind-friendly. This small temple is easy to navigate with mainly one way in and out of the dressing rooms; which are immediately across the hall (a mere 3 steps) to the endowment room. Non complicated floor plan. The presidency is very open to ideas for streamlining or allowing an independent temple experience if you’d prefer - let them know when you are coming. For those with low vision, you can call ahead to ask for printing to be in large black font / white background.

🔹 DeafBlind-friendly Progress. I was able to help with a session with a brother who was Deaf and had very limited vision. The temple presidency spent weeks or more brainstorming how to make his experience his own. It was a sweet experience as a session - it felt like Zion as everyone was of “one heart and one mind” as we all joyed in this beautiful brother’s temple experience. Again, let the presidency know ahead of time and they will do there best to find solutions.

🔸 Accessibility-friendly. Outdoor elevator in top parking lot to bring you level with the Temple (this is a hilly area so there’s quite an climb from one end of the grounds to the other). The temple is one level, mobility friendly. (But sessions do change rooms 3x.) There is one stall reserved in each bathroom and one changing booth for members with mobility needs.

🔹 Language-friendly. Endowment provided in tens and tens of languages via headphones. Don’t be afraid to ask if a language temple worker is available in the language you need. Members from many backgrounds and countries serve here in...

A place of holiness, peace and inspiration.

These buildings are where latter day saints worship the Lord Jesus Christ by making promises that signify a deeper commitment to follow Him. LDS people refer to them commonly a "covenants". They do this for both the living and for those that have died without making these promises or covenants. By acting as a proxy or "standing in" for an ancestor, a person can be baptised, receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and even be married to their spouse for eternity

LDS people believe that doing so on behalf of one that had died grants the deseased the same benefit of having that ordinance done while living. It is a strongly held believe among LDS people that God meant for family units to last beyond death. The temple is the structure dedidcated to facilitate the unifying of families through the process of making a covenants with God.

I can tell you as one that has made these promises to Jesus both for myself and for my ancestors, there comes a peace, inspiration and a resolve to follow the Savior in all areas of my...

My temple that's what I call it I love the temple it makes me feel good I am on a cloud for several days and I can't remember what I'm doing I just have everything right at hand and I love the temple I feel God right with me and Jesus hovering over and arms around me with the holy ghost there is there all around you and it's great to be able to bless people that need to be blessed and it's awesome to help others we get a to bless people that need your help their help and thank you for this having temples all over because we can go in and do this work for others and if you want your name and to go to the temples just let us know and we'll be glad to take them and we will be able to bless you at the temple and we will do so thank you for everything and we say all these prayers for you in Jesus...