My Effort to Visit Various Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Throughout the World
I was supposed to be in Detroit today, visiting the Detroit Michigan Temple. Accordingly I arrived at the Baltimore Washington International airport around 6:30 AM in order to catch my 8 o’clock flight. It would arrive in Detroit around 10 AM. The temple doesn’t open …
It all started with the airfare—$156 round-trip from Washington DC to Salt Lake City. I came out to wine and dine my 88-year old mother for her birthday. I told her she got to choose whatever she wanted to do. She chose to go to …
It would be my final and seventh temple in the last five days. I drove here from Atlanta this morning. The trick would be to make it before they close. Their last endowment session starts at 2:30 PM. I got there at 3:10 PM. But …
There’s a lot of healing that takes place inside a temple owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including spiritual healing, emotional healing, and even physical healing. Well apparently that healing also applies to the parking lot. For about 1200 miles on …
It was about 190 miles from the Nashville Tennessee Temple to the Birmingham Alabama Temple. I arrived at about 2:30 and the first session wasn’t until 6 PM so we had a few hours to take a nap. I cleared out the area behind the …
I drove about 190 miles last night from Louisville Kentucky to Nashville Tennessee. When I arrived it was 1:30 in the morning. I pulled into the empty stake center parking lot and parked under a tree. I cleared out the back of my …
This third temple of the day was going to be a make-it-or-break-it effort. If I got out of the Indianapolis Temple in time and the traffic was favorable I might make it for the latter part of the day in the Louisville Kentucky Temple but …
It’s 174 miles from the Columbus Ohio Temple to the Indianapolis Indiana Temple. And the most fascinating part of the roads that you drive on are within a block of the Indianapolis Temple. They have some roundabouts there, I think a series of three of …
I flew to San Diego for $86 to visit my awesome aunt and uncle Tafe & Gary Glauser. They are fantastic. High on the agenda was a visit to the Tijuana Temple too. On the agenda for the first day there was a trip to …
It’s one of the three remaining operating temples I haven’t visited in Utah, the Jordan River Temple. The other two are Monticello and Vernal Temples. I left it until now because it was under renovation for awhile until it reopened in May of this year. …