Our last night here at the MTC. The temple training was the most special for us with Elder and Sister Pinegar. It was hard to say goodbye and thank them for all that they gave us this week. Another experience I enjoyed a good deal was getting to know our fellow senior couples here with us preparing for other temple service. Far greater sacrifice has been made by these folks with their various challenges. Colds, congestion, and bugs continue to move through the ranks of the seniors. Meetings are punctuated by coughs and colds. Nothing as serious as Zion's Camp though.
We were given instruction by the managing director of the temple department and told of the continuing effort to make temples available to the members of the Church throughout the world. The work continues and we are happy to be be apart of it in Peru. Few people can retire in 3rd world countries and often work well into their seventies, hence the need they have for us to help with keeping the temples functioning.
The suitcases are about packed and I have some cleaning to do while RA finishes folding the laundry. We are happy to be leaving for Lima in the morning.
Favorite recent and insightful quote I have read recently:
Favorite quote I have recently read: "The word temple comes from the Latin templum, which signifies an extended open space that has been marked out for the observation of the sky. In what manner is such a space marked out? According to Dr. Hugh Nibley, the word templum, "designates a building specifically designed for interpreting signs in the heavens--a sort of observatory where one gets one's bearings on the universe." The root "tem-" in Greek and Latin denotes a "cutting" or intersection of two lines at right angles, the point where the "cardo" and "decumanus" cross, hence where the four regions come together." Matthew Brown - "The Gate of Heaven"
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