A Trip to England

This week we made a trip across the sea to England. It was a pretty short flight, about 40 minutes. We landed in Liverpool. Here we are by the Yellow Submarine......

There were five Young Women and ten adult members of the ward on the trip.

It was fun to watch the English taxi's as we were waiting for our rental cars.

Then off we went! Headed down the motorway to Preston, where we anxiously scanned the horizon for the Preston Temple.

We arrived safely and what a beautiful temple. We checked into the accommodation center which is right on the temple grounds along with the Mission Training Center (everyone thought we were missionaries there...) the distribution center, Family History Center and a beautiful stake center. Everything is very convenient and just a short walk from the temple.


First thing on the agenda was lunch, since we had left at 6:30 a.m. Everyone was starving!

We had lunch at the Bowling Green. Fun place with a great carvery! Gammon, turkey, roast beef, turnips, carrots, peas, onions, boiled potatoes, roasted potatoes, gravey, pastry cups, stuffing balls.....about like Ireland!

We then headed back to the temple. I went shopping with Emma and Chris for the rest of the meals, while everyone rested up for our first session at the temple.

The weather was beautiful and the fall leaves were brilliant as we made our way to the temple.
It was John Adair's first time to the temple and what a great experience for him.

This is the MTC with the accommodation center in the background.

Mission Training Center

Swans on the pond......Brother Donnelly enjoyed talking to the gardeners and got some ideas for his garden!

Elder Holt. We really enjoyed the Temple grounds.

Sister Holt. Archway leading to the Temple.

Sister and Elder Holt at the Preston Temple!

Group shot...oops! minus Brother Donnelly.......

Elder Holt and I stayed late one night. It was beautiful until we got caught in the rain!

It was a great trip. We enjoyed being at the temple and associating with such wonderful saints. We hope we can go again while we are here on our mission.