Our First Seoul Temple Trip September 3rd

It takes us about two hours to get to the Temple, so the first time we went to the Temple, we stayed at a Hotel in Seoul.

It was two weeks after we got to Korea. I won't go into the whole trip, but it was kind of hit and miss! Most of the popular sights in Seoul, are in the Seoul Mission, we are in the South Seoul Mission. So when we make our monthly mission trip, we try to see a few of the sights. We did a lot of walking to nowhere. 

Our GPS happens to be a little broken. It won't let us type in 1, or a; so I don’t know how we finally found our hotel, but we did! We were so tired that Friday night, we collapsed once we got into our room. We were so excited Saturday morning to head to the temple. The night before we studied the map, and thought it was closer than it looked. We thought we were leaving with plenty of time. Korea is small for the amount of people and cars that are here. So one interesting thing they do, sometimes they put your car on a car elevator.  

After our car came off the elevator, there wasn’t even enough room to turn the car so they drive it on to a metal round thing that turns your car to the right direction. Of course we made a couple of wrong turns and the GPS had to recalculate. There were no parking places left, so we had to park at the chapel down the little street. It is weird! 

The GPS led us up these narrow unattractive streets, you almost wonder if the GPS is more broken than you thought. You turn the corner and right in front of your eyes is a little bit of Heaven. It’s home away from home.   

When we entered the temple, the Temple President welcomed us. He wanted to know about our mission, and how we were doing. Once in the dressing room I wasn't sure where to go. I stood waiting in the wrong place. A sister from our Osan branch asked me if I would take one of her family names.   

Finally I was there ready for the English session, but we were four minutes too late. The next English session wouldn’t start for another hour.

There is no chapel. The women sat in one small room and the men in another. As I stood by the door, a brother came up and said, we need help doing sealings. We were thrilled.It was perfect that the "nothing could go right" Temple Trip, turned in to the perfect Temple trip! It was just what we needed.