Merida Mexico Temple
May 8, 2018 It all started last December after I had visited my 23rd temple for the year. I got the idea to make the 24th one a “wild-card” temple. I pulled up a random number generator on my phone and put in the range …
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FRANKFURT GERMANY TEMPLE
Right now, I’m traveling on the ICE speed train to Frankfurt from the Netherlands. We’re going around 180 miles an hour. For the first time in three days, I’m seeing something that could be called mountains! Small mountains, but still mountains! Three or four trains …
THE HAGUE NETHERLANDS TEMPLE
What an adventure!! I’ll summarize it here using bullet points: Even the guy who assisted me during the temple session was named Joe Smith!
PRESTON ENGLAND TEMPLE
My post about the Preston England Temple starts at the Lingfield train station, about 2 miles from the London temple where I was this morning! This is the station Neal would drive to to pick up missionaries when he and my mom were here on …
LONDON ENGLAND TEMPLE
Tomorrow morning, I catch a train to New York, then in the evening an overnight flight to London. Wednesday morning around 10 o’clock local time I will be in the London England Temple. This will be the third time that I have visited that temple. …
SAN SALVADOR EL SALVADOR TEMPLE
The excitement of this temple trip started with the airfare to El Salvador: $58 nonstop from Washington Dulles on Frontier. How do you beat that? I found it back in February, booked it, then started learning about Copan. Copan is one of the 10 most …
GRAND JUNCTION COLORADO TEMPLE
It could be the most adventurous temple trip I’ll ever take. That’s because I’m going there tomorrow with my brother Ron. In his airplane…! For my birthday last year, Ron offered to fly me anyplace west of the Mississippi River. There were two temples recently …
Burley Idaho Temple
I arrive in Denver around 4 pm and don’t depart for Salt Lake City until 10:40 pm! NAP TIME! Best of all, the airfare one-way from DC to Salt Lake City is only $30! The Denver airport has a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in …
Syracuse Utah Temple
I came to the Syracuse Utah Temple open house a number of months ago and really enjoyed it! This time, I came to do temple work and it was under different circumstances. Earlier in the day we had the funeral services for my 94-year-old mother! …
Bern Switzerland Temple
This is the second time I’ve been to this temple. The first time was in 1979 on my Around the World trip. Earlier in the trip, I had been pickpocketed in Egypt and lost my temple recommend! President Dan Rona of the Jerusalem branch interviewed …