Birmingham Temple

This morning, I went to the Birmingham, Alabama temple. It's a beautiful temple! (pictured below) I think Provo is still my favorite as far as the way that the baptismal area is set up. The comedy of the day was the little towels they had for us. With the Atlanta temple being closed for renovations currently, Birmingham has had a lot more traffic. The people that did towels were staying 3 to 4 hours after the temple closed. They have temporarily gone to a towel provider (I'd be very curious to know how that business works... don't have time to wash thousands of towels? We'll do it for you!) However, I'm not sure that the towel people understood that small children were the minority of the people that would be using the towels. At least I'm hoping they didn't understand, otherwise I don't appreciate their humor. The towels are a little bigger than hand towels. Beside the little beehive, Michelle was the only other person that fit in one towel. She's about 7 inches taller than me but she weighs less than i do - that consoled, sort of?On the ride back from the temple we were talking about missions. I mentioned that I have less than 8 months before I can put in my papers. Michael Alan's comment was, "Be sure to pray about it... and don't go crazy." I informed him that craziness runs in my family. Michelle commented that girls are just crazy, so I corrected my statement; "Craziness runs in my gender." I'm thinking it might be better for my crazy to come in while I'm on a mission. That way, any poor bloke that thinks he wants to marry me will have his desire in spite of the knowledge that he's in love with a lunatic.
I got to talk to my mommy and hang out with my brothers when I got back; I feel loved!