Temples Announced

This morning while listening to General Conference, I was overcome with emotion as the Prophet announced the new temples to be built.  The new temples sites include Barranquilla, Colombia; Durban, South Africa; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo;  Star Valley, Wyoming; and in Provo, Utah where they would make the old Provo Tabernacle, which was burned in a fire last winter, into a Temple
I will always remember waking up that cold morning to the news coverage, pictures, and video of that beautiful building engulfed in flames.  I felt that something terrible was happening and I was upset that maybe if someone had been more careful, that building would still be whole and intact.  Yet, out of the ashes of that tragedy miracles began to emerge.  One of the most poignant, pictures of the Savior were being pulled out of the wreckage blackened and singed around the edges, but the face of Jesus remained untouched.  
How often are we told that as we struggle through the toughest trials there are good things that will come of our experiences?  The burning of the Tabernacle was certainly the darkest point of that building's history.  Who would have thought that through that devastating fire, the Provo Tabernacle would become a Temple?   There are good things ahead for each of us as we faithfully pass through the trials that come our way.  The Tabernacle has been a place for gathering and hearing the will of the Lord through the voice of our local leaders.  Now it will be a place for people to receive the blessings of eternal families.  
Right now we may be good, but we most certainly be better.  Through our trials, we can prepare to serve the Lord not the way we think we should, but in the way He needs us.