After Nigeria Falls we made our way to Ohio! Since Bryan served his mission in northern Ohio I had wanted to go with him since we met. I was so excited to see his areas and meet some of his friends.
One thing that shocked me about this drive is how freaking huge like Erie is! We drove for a hour and were still going around the lake. It really did look like an ocean.
I wasn't sure how Bryan was going to react to being in Ohio. He had told me before he didn't know how much of his mission stuff he wanted to try and do. But the moment we got into Ohio he pulled off the highway and started to explore around the cities. He had spent a lot of time in north eastern Ohio. He could drive right to his apartments and church houses. It was fun to see him so excited about it.
Once we got into the Kirkland area to our rental we had the whole evening free. So we figured we would drive down to see the Kirkland temple. Our rental was actually on the same street as the temple just about 10 minutes north of it.
At the time the Kirkland temple was owned but the community of Christ church - since then our church has bought it. I would love to go back now we own it! Their tours they do for it were done for the day so we walked around the grounds. I loved it all so much. Bryan especially did.
I love this photo so much its currently hanging on our wall.
It was really special for me to be here with Bryan. He was telling us some cool stories from his mission while we were there. We ran into the lady who took care of the grounds and she took a couple of photos for us.
I know this is a little out of order but we ended up doing a tour of the temple the next morning. The way the community of Christ did it is we went to their visitors center and had to pay for our tour. It was $10 a person! And they had us watch a movie then the curtains opened and you could see the temple out the windows. I'll be honest I didn't love the movie. The way they talked about Joseph Smith was weird even though they believe in him being a prophet as well. Bryan gave us all a huge speech about being kind to them because that was a big deal with he served in this area. He served right in Kirkland for awhile.
Ok so I wasn't suppose to take photos inside. I didn't know our guide didn't tell us. our guide was actually a BYU professor that the Community of Christ knew from his mission to the area and came back to help do tours. Which I loved! But he forgot to tell us no photos. Now that our church owns it and they don't care if you take photos inside this temple (other dedicated temples you cannot take photos inside like the Logan Temple currently) I don't mind posting these.
I took these of the walls that have the original rocks in them
This is where I got in trouble for taking my camera out. she didn't know I had taken some on my phone. So I'm sorry for that wasn't trying to be rude. But isn't is beautiful inside?
One thing I didn't know was there are actually two floors that look like this! And a third floor with a few empty rooms. While in the main room on the bottom floor our guide asked if someone could play the piano. This kind lady who was on our flight out to NY and on our tour of the scared grove was in Kirkland with us too. She can play the piano and we sang the spirit of god. The song they sang when it was dedicated and it was written for that occasion. What an amazing experience to sing that song in such a special place. I will always remember it.
Bryan took us to a cool park close by where they got the rock for the temple. You can see the marks in the rocks and no one really knows it there. It was cool to see.
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