Week 85 - Continued - May 27, 2019 - Training in London

Tuesday, May 30 - We flew to London where we were blessed to meet and train  another new AAA in his new responsibilities as the Assistant Area Auditor over the London Coordinating Council.  What a joy it is to meet such wonderful, enthusiastic and hardworking members who are willing to give so much to their callings!

  

After the training, our plan was to attend the London Temple, which I thought was only a half hour away--but I had put in the wrong base point and it was an hour and a half away--and with terrible traffic, it turned out to be nearly three hours away!  The wonderful new AAA was taking us through side streets and pushing to the limit to get us to the train station; after a half hour train ride, we got into a taxi, and finally got inside the temple and seated with only one minute before the last session started!  We were nervous wrecks, but were praying the whole way that we would make it!  Ohhh, how we needed to be in the temple today!  I had so many tears and couldn't keep them inside--especially thinking of my father.

 After the temple session, as the temple grounds host walked us over the ten acres of gardens, streams, and oak trees (the David O. McKay oak tree is over 450 years old--the one he so lovingly admired as the temple was being built in 1958), my heart was bursting with happiness as I felt calmness that everything is going to work as the Lord lovingly intends for it to be. 

 

While in the London Area, we took a visit out to Hampton Court--most notably the home of Henry VIII.

The gardens and grounds of Hampton Court are some of the most beautiful and peaceful of any palace.  

 We, also, took at train ride out to Bath, the city that became a spa in 60 AD when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon, although hot springs were known even before then.  

 Quite an interesting way of using the old telephone booths that England is so well-known for.  

  When in England, you must have fish and chips!

 

   I had to take a picture of one of the buses showing Stonehenge, which we visited several years ago.  At that time, George said he had never heard of it!  Hah! 

 

 

With much love, Gma Laura