When Janae Baird wanted to go to the temple, there was a laundry list of arrangements she had to make as a mother of five young children.
Baird’s pilgrimage from Fort Worth to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Dallas temple, the only one in the metroplex, involved a one-hour commute to the location, the two hours she would spend inside and the hour it would take her to get back home.
Making the four-hour trip would only be possible after successfully scheduling an appointment to visit the temple, which can be a challenge in itself considering the membership growth the denomination has seen in Baird’s three decades of living in the metroplex, she said…