Cedar City Utah 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 …
My Effort to Visit Various Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Throughout the World
mormon temple trek
Gilbert Arizona Temple
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: …
Mesa Arizona Temple
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 …
Phoenix Arizona Temple
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 …
Redlands California Temple
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 …
Los Angeles California Temple
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. …
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 …
Hartford Connecticut Temple
December 13, 2017 Wrong coat. I should have brought my bigger coat with the hoodie and the long sleeves. It was 21 degrees when I landed in Hartford but that’s okay. I left my home at 5:30 AM, caught the metro down to Reagan National …
San Antonio Texas Temple
December 9, 2017 Two words start off this post: stained glass! There is a lot of it in this temple and it runs from floor to ceiling in some cases. It’s beautiful! Two other words sum up this experience: awesome brother. I flew from Washington, …
Newport Beach California Temple
December 6, 2017 Let’s start with the airfare: 1) Flight from Washington DC at 7 AM this morning nonstop to Denver–$19. 2) Flight from Denver to Santa Ana Orange Country Airport departing at 12:35 PM–$19. 3) Flight from Santa Ana back to Denver departing at …