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 Airport and was on the 7:25 flight to Hartford. Round-trip airfare, purchased about six weeks ago, was only $76. Thank you, JetBlue.
I was thrilled to see some free snacks and drinks on the plane. You don’t get that with Frontier!
We landed at 8:35 and I just missed the 8:42 bus to downtown Hartford where I would transfer to another bus that would take me to the temple. Consequently I had to wait for almost an hour for the next bus. I didn’t mind; I just parked next to the heater inside the terminal.
It was about a 30-minute bus ride to downtown Hartford, then about an hour more out to where the temple is in Farmington.
The last endowment session was at 11 this morning. I knew I was going to miss it, but I didn’t worry since I could do initiatories or sealings instead. The total one-way fare for the bus ride was $1.75. The one-way Uber ride would have been $35. The great thing is there is a bus stop directly across the street from the temple.
The temple looks like a really big stake center with a giant Moroni statue up on top of it. I love the steeple as it reminds me of my former ward building in the Kentlands in Gaithersburg, Maryland. I did some initiatories with the wonderful temple workers there and then spent a few minutes in the celestial room.
I sat there quietly and re-read Alma chapter 38, which my dad read to me on my final family home evening before I left for my mission. It’s great instruction!
I paid another $1.75 and took the bus back into downtown Hartford. From there I went straight across the street to Panera Bread. It was awesome!
I’m almost back to the airport where I’ll be back in DC tonight around 9 PM. All told, a wonderful day in the countryside of Connecticut. This is my 23rd temple visited this year. Only one more to go!