It was a job far from his dreams. Now it’s an opportunity close to home.

Only two-and-a-half years after graduating from BYU-Idaho, Andrew Wolford returns as part of Jacobsen Construction to oversee the construction of Rexburg’s temple in the town he grew up in.

For over two years, Wolford has worked on various buildings across the country for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — from Pennsylvania to Alaska, and even some in Rexburg. His most recent projects in this area were the new married student stake center on 7th South along with the Thomas E. Ricks Building, Wolford said.

However, no project compared to the assignment he received last July, two weeks before the temple’s groundbreaking ceremony where Elder John H. Groberg, then of the Presidency of the Quorum of the Seventy, said the temple would take two years to complete. [read more]