In July, we were able to take a trip to El Salvador and see the soon-to-be-opened San Salvador Temple. We traveled with Clate and Carol Mask and with Paul and Joanne Fillmore. It was a quick, overnight trip for us as we had to return to work in the Guatemala Temple.
It is a beautiful temple and we really enjoyed our day there. The Salvadorean people are so excited to have their own temple and have been preparing for it since we arrived in Guatemala. They have been coming to Guatemala City for at least the last nine months, every week, to be trained as temple workers. They are ready as the temple was dedicated last Sunday and is now open for business.
We were able to meet the new Temple President and his wife, the Petersons. Our tour was very special since we were in the presence of the new President. We saw their new apartment, the apartments for the temple missionaries, all very nice and very new!!!! They also have a Distribution Center in an adjacent building. They also have a new Stake Center on the Temple property. The landscaping was magnificent. All in all, the El Salvador Temple is as nice a temple as I have seen in any part of the world.
At the open house, we saw many of our missionaries that were trained at the Guatemala MTC while we have been there. It was fun for us to see them and to see how they were doing on their missions. I'm happy to say they are all doing well and are happy.
It is great to see the church grow stronger in Central America. Stay tuned, another temple to open in Guatemala in December of this year and another to open in Honduras sometime during 2012.
