My Effort to Visit Various Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Throughout the World
Like all good temple trips, this one started early. I was on the road to Reagan National Airport at 3:59 AM! The nonstop flight to Montreal leaves at 6 AM. I will fly back tonight at 7 PM! The spirit is willing, but my French …
I had an 8 AM endowment session the next morning so all was well. It’s a joyous thing to drive 84 miles an hour using cruise control all the way up through Idaho and Montana. We can’t drive that fast legally in Washington DC, but …
Any trip to the Richmond Virginia Temple from the Washington DC area has to go on I-95 South. That’s generally not a pleasant experience, especially on Juneteenth weekend! The Richmond Virginia Temple was dedicated on my birthday, May 7 of last month. It was originally …
My trip to the Anchorage Alaska Temple was going to be my final US operating temple, number 82. But then the airlines stepped in and gave me too good of a deal. So, I just scheduled my Anchorage Alaska Temple trip for the last week …
AUGUST 26, 2023 This is going to be a great day! I’m on board for Skywest Delta connection flight from Washington DC to Minneapolis and it is 6 AM. I have a two hour layover in Minneapolis and then it’s on to Bismarck where I’ll …
My second stop on this 48-hour Hawaiian temple trip is the Kona Hawaii Temple. I left my sister Patti‘s house in Laie at 5 o’clock this morning. Then, I drove an hour north to the Honolulu airport. Next, I boarded a Hawaiian Airlines flight at …
As is the case with most of these trips, it starts with the food. Accordingly this morning, it was the Dunkin’ Donuts card that I’ve been carrying around in my wallet for years. It actually had some value on it! Accordingly, it scored me an …
It is 392 miles from the Pocatello Idaho Temple to the Billings Montana Temple. More importantly, it is 6 hours and 9 minutes of travel time. When I left Spanish Fork yesterday morning at 6:13 AM, my goal was to simply go up to the …
It’s 132 miles from the Columbia River Washington Temple to the Spokane Temple. I arrived at 2:30 PM and my session wasn’t until 3:30 PM so they let me sit in the celestial room for about a half hour. That was wonderful! when I entered …
The story of my visit to the Columbia River Washington Temple starts the night before. I had driven 477 miles from the Medford Oregon Temple. When I found out I had missed the last endowment session of the night, I walked across the parking lot …