Santo Domingo Temple Trip

We were lucky enough last month to take a fast trip to the temple in the Dominican Republic. It is the closest temple to PR and our stake was taking a trip there the week of Thanksgiving. We have been wanting to go at least once while we are here and just couldn't pass up the oppurtunity. It was a once in a lifetime experience and it truely strengthened my testimony about the gospel of Jesus Christ. We had 61 members from our stake participate in the trip. Ben and I were only there one day and could feel the love and sacrifice of those members. I took this picture (No, it is not from the church website or a professional photographer, or is it photo shopped. It shows exactly how naturally awe-inspiring the House of the Lord is!) A copy of this hangs in our living room as a reminder of the wonderful blessings the temple provides in our lives and to our family.
Even though all the workers and the words in the temple were Spanish it helped me to understand how important the temple is to EVERY person no matter what launguage they speak or where they are from. Our loving Heavenly Father wants all to know and understand His promises. I have never been hugged so much at any temple and could feel the love of all in attendance that day. Ben and I were able to do some sealings and baptisms for some of his ansestors and we were so lucky to be able to go. Ben says that he used to wonder how people could go to the temple all day. But now we know the excitement and blessings that come from serving in the temple. We are going to try to go in April again and stay longer:)

Ben and I right before we left to go home. The temple is made from pink stone. I don't know why so maybe do some investigating and post a comment if you know why...

These were just a few pictures that we took of OSJ from the sky and of the amazing sunset as we left PR.