My Effort to Visit Various Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Throughout the World
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 …
My adventure to visit the Pocatello Idaho Temple started Tuesday at 6:13. That’s A.M… That’s when the Utah Transit Authority 821 bus stops at the street corner less than a block from my mother‘s house. I would catch it up to the Provo Frontrunner station …
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 …
Once caught up on my sleep, the next problem was my white pants. I rented them at the Portland temple but they don’t rent clothes at the Medford temple. The distribution center, located in the stake center, doesn’t open until 10 o’clock and my endowment …
Well, I think I just set a record. I drove 551 miles from the Albuquerque temple to the Oklahoma City temple and I just did two initiatory’s in the Oklahoma City Temple. That’s 275 miles per initiatory! But I don’t mind one bit. The two …
It’s 321 miles from the Lubbock Texas Temple to the Albuquerque New Mexico Temple. I finished my work in the Lubbock temple at about noon and my appointment in Albuquerque (to do some sealings was at 7 PM. No problem on the travel! Besides, it …
Finally! After two years of Covid related closures, I was able to go out and visit another temple. Thanks to a credit I had on Spirit Airlines, and the corresponding $160 round-trip flight from Baltimore to Oakland, I was thrilled to come to the Bay …
In the October general conference, President Nelson announced that 13 new temples would be built “…at or near…” the following locations: Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Tacloban, Philippines; Monrovia, Liberia; Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Antananarivo, Madagascar; Culiacan, Mexico; Vitoria, Brazil; La Paz, Bolivia; Santiago West, Chile; …
At the April 2021 general conference, President Nelson announced the construction of 20 new temples! They will be built in these locations: Oslo, Norway; Brussels, Belgium; Vienna, Austria; Kumasi, Ghana; Beira, Mozambique; Cape Town, South Africa; Singapore, Republic of Singapore; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Cali, Columbia; …