Temple trip

Hello again. This time I will describe our experiences from yesterday. As mentioned, we struggled in finding a way to get to the temple. We finally made it!

Here is Sister B and one of the sisters from our branch who came with us.

A week or so ago, I just got to thinking that the best way we could do this is to rent a car (since we do not have miles available on our Mission-issued car) and go to the temple. Now after experiencing that we might try something else. But it really did work and it was wonderful and well worth it!

The temple was really beautiful and the trip was very nice and pleasant as we visited with each other, including the language translation process.

It rained the entire day. It was just plain wet.

Also, an unforeseen event was the fact that we needed to pay for the use of the freeway system in Switzerland. They do not have tolls or toll-booths, but you have to have purchased permission to drive on the freeways, a thing called a Vignette. Our mission car has one. Our previous branch president bought one for us for the year and gave it to us. It cost him about 40 Euro (about $45) for the year. We also had similar problems with the Austrian freeway system, but could buy a day or two-month pass there. We now had this rental car. I though I could easily just get a day pass for the freeway system. However, the only thing you can buy is an annual pass. We decided to spend the 35 Euro, mainly because it was so difficult to travel on the local roads. We needed to get to the temple so we could do two sessions. It just cost us about $40 to use the freeways for that day. At least the rental car is now authorized to use the Swiss freeway system for the rest of the year. I guess that is a blessing for the future car renters. You can see the wonderful sticker in that last picture.

Next time we will see if we can convince a member to drive or we can try the trains.

After our wonderful time in the temple, we headed back home. It took us about 3 hours to get to the temple. Our trip home took us about 5 hours. It seems that the entire country of Switzerland decided to head out for the weekend. The roads (the wonderful freeway system) was just choked with traffic.

I asked our sister from the branch about this. Switzerland, actually, is a very choice vacation and holiday destination. When someone lives in the vacation wonderland of the world, where do they go for a vacation? Somewhere else, obviously!

We still had a great time, listening to the Gentlemen of the Court CD and some other music and good conversation. The rental car was a nice comfortable car and we were dry inside.

It was a beautiful day!  We just had to call our District leader and tell him that we would not be home in time for curfew (it doesn't really apply to us anyway, but we wanted to call him anyway).