Sunday, December 23, 2018

Fort Collins, Colorado Temple

The Billings Temple has been closed since the middle of November.  In November we went to the Oquirrh Mountain temple in Utah.  We knew were going to have to make a road trip somewhere in December. We talked about all kinds of options and finally decided to make a trip to the Fort Collins temple in Colorado.

We left Tuesday morning and enjoyed the drive down to Fort Collins together. It is good to spend time together off on an adventure alone.  We stopped at Sonic in Casper for lunch.  We enjoyed the day together.

 Our friends, the Checketts, moved to the Fort Collins area a couple of years ago. We went out and saw their family and their new house.  It was fun to eat dinner with their family. We were blessed to attend a session at the temple with them.  Neil and Brother Checketts drove to the temple together and I drove with Sister Checketts so we would have a chance to talk about life.  It was fun to catch up with her.

After attending the temple we went for a walk near our motel.  We thought we would go and find the Colorado State University campus. We walked quite a ways and decided we should go back.  We never did quite make it on to the campus.

Wednesday morning we went back to the temple and did a sealing session. It was a great experience to do sealings for family names. There were quite a few people there to do sealings. We helped do a family sealing with about 5 children.  We enjoyed the morning at the temple. It was quite windy while we were there.  The Fort Collins Temple is a smaller temple and has a different look than a lot of the temples. It was beautiful.

After attending the temple we headed for home. We drove to Cheyenne and went to the LCCC campus for a short break. We walked around a bit. We drove through the downtown part of Cheyenne and saw the Capitol Building and several of the government buildings.

We stopped in Casper again on our way home and did some shopping at Wal-Mart. We got lunch there and then headed for home again.  It was a great adventure. We were grateful to attend the temple together.

The Billings Temple opens again the middle of January. It will be great to have it open again.






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