My Effort to Visit Various Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Throughout the World
May 30, 2018 We left Spanish Fork, Utah this morning and drove almost 400 miles to the Meridian Idaho Temple. We stopped in Eagle Idaho to see my wonderful mission president, Ted Johnson and his amazing wife Jan. I haven’t seen them in 40 years. …
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 …
February 9, 2018 My parents picked me up at the St. George Shuttle stop (the Flying J in Springville) yesterday at 4 PM. I keep a set of temple clothing at my mother’s home to use when I come out West. Because the Manti Temple …
February 9, 2018 I came to Utah to attend the wedding tomorrow of my nephew. I flew into Las Vegas because of the scheduling of flights. I arrived in Vegas at about 1 AM and slept in the terminal until 5:30. At 6 AM I …
January 31, 2018 My wonderful uncle drove me 11 miles from the Mesa Arizona Temple to the Gilbert Arizona Temple so I could attend it. I ended up doing initiatory work here like I did in the Mesa Temple. I did learn something new also: …
January 31, 2018 Going from the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport out to the Phoenix Temple and back this morning cost me about $70 with tips. My wonderful driver on the return trip with SuperShuttle suggested I take the free airport tram to the metro station …
January 31, 2018 Once again, it starts with the airfare: $40 from Washington DC to Denver, $20 to Phoenix, arrive at midnight. Find a gate with some vacant, non-armrest chairs, lie down, and fall asleep for five hours. I took the SuperShuttle at 5:15 AM …
January 17, 2017 The bus ride from the Los Angeles Temple got me to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles by about 11 AM. At 11:30 I paid $13.50 to catch the train for a two hour ride out to San Bernardino. From there I …
January 17, 2018 My first temple trip of 2018 took me from the East Coast all the way to the West Coast thanks to a $132 round-trip airfare to Los Angeles. My goal was to visit the Los Angeles and Redlands temples in one day. …
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 …