This evening for our Senior Missionary Activity, we met at the Frankfurt Temple grounds. We had tours of the Family History learning center in the annex and then a tour around the temple grounds by the couple named Wiborny, who now oversee the center.
We divided into 3 groups, then rotated through the FamilySearch Learning Center a film about the temple and a walk around the grounds.
This is the FamilySearch Learning Center.
This is the home where the Temple Presidency live.
These buildings house patrons and temple workers.
The most interesting thing I learned this evening was about the door of the Temple Presidency’s old mansion home that once belonged to the owner of the noodle factory that stood on the land where the temple is. The rich factory owner had the home built and in metalwork on the original door are the initials H for the family name “Haller,” a T for the husband’s name, “Theodor,” and an L for the wife’s name, “Liesel.” They are artistically fashioned into a monogram of sorts: HLT, which is the German spelling of LDS, or Heiligen Letzen Tage. How fun is that??
You can read more about the history of this now-sacred place here.
I love watching the lawn-mowing robot, quietly doing its work!
After our visit to Tempelplatz, we all walked across the street to an ice cream shop for some treats. In the plaza by the shop is this memorial to Philipp Reis, who’s home town of Gelnhausen we visited Saturday. He is credited as the inventor of the telephone here in Europe.
We had a really fun evening. We are loving the long summer days. It doesn’t feel hot like summer yet, but it stays light until almost 10:00 p.m.
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 