The Manhattan Temple

Perhaps the highlight of this week was the opportunity to go to the Manhattan Temple on Friday. Periodically senior couples are asked to accompany the young elders and sisters who are allowed to go to the temple at a certain milestone month. When they reach the six-month, the 12 month or the 18 month mark in their mission, the young missionaries are allowed to go to the temple. 

They go as a group and must be led by a senior couple so they don't get "lost". The temple is in Manhattan, which is not part of our mission. Since we're still new, we accompanied another senior couple who led the group so we could "learn the drill" for the time we might lead a group.

We drove to the mission office and then traveled by subway to Manhattan. There were approximately 20 missionaries in our group.

Taking the subway is definitely the best way to get around Manhattan.  We made one subway transfer, but we did okay.

The Manhattan Temple is beautiful. It is a tall building in the middle of Manhattan. The angel Moroni stands on top of the building. We come out of the subway on 66 street and look directly at Moroni, right across the street from the Lincoln Center.

The temple is beautiful and very quiet.  We enjoyed going there and look forward to going back often. As senior missionaries we are allowed to go to the temple as often as our schedule permits. 

This week we were also privileged to meet with our mission president and the CES

coordinator. They both gave us wonderful advice to help with the CES missionaries.  We are enjoying the work and love to meet the fine young people here.