The 2017 Wild Card Temple

December 15, 2017

I decided for my final temple of the year I would do a randomly selected one.  There are, as of today, 160 operating LDS temples throughout the world.  I put in the range of 1 to 160 in a random-number generator in my phone.  Whatever number came up, I would go to my list of chronologically-dated temples in operation and visit that temple.  This was pretty exciting because we have temples in a boatload of countries and this random number would determine where I would go.

I ran the app and number 93 surfaced–Merida, Mexico.

Merida, Mexico is about 180 miles west of Cancun, Mexico.  I discovered there are direct flights to Merida from Washington, DC and those flights run about $500.  Because of the planning needed and the airfare cost, I would not be able to make the trip before the end of this calendar year, but that didn’t matter.  I loved the idea of the random-number generator for the final temple of the year!

Stay tuned for a future post when I tell you about my trip to this wonderful temple in Mexico!