A Tour of the Frankfurt Temple Grounds!

We have taken several pictures of the temple and would like to share them with you.

The Temple and Grounds with the first snowstorm of the season.

Inside the Annex is a large picture of the Christus. This is a favorite place to take pictures.

Outside the Annex

Autumn at the Temple

Yep! It gets very very cold! This is really Autumn, but the way we were dressed you would think it was winter--and it certainly felt like Winter.

Summer at the Temple

Note the Angel Moroni just to the right of the center of the picture!

The Temple Parking Lot

We met the Stoja Family while at the temple. They are from Albania and it was wonderful to meet them and get to know them.

Karen with other Temple Missionaries

Spring at the Temple

Annex of the Temple
Hostel where the people that come to the temple can stay for a reasonable price. However, it is mostly dormitory style living.

This is the Villa. The President of the temple has an apartment in this Villa and the two counselors and their wives also have apartments in the Villa. We have some meetings and gatherings here. This is a historic building and when the land was purchased for the temple, the city would only let the land be purchased if the Villa was kept on the property. It hadn't been occupied for several years and had to have major restoration done to preserve it. It is a beautiful landmark beside the temple.

This is the Chapel that is on the temple property.

These last two pictures were taken when we were here with the Humanitarian Missionaries about eight years ago--while we were serving in Albania.

We hope that you enjoyed our tour of the temple grounds.

Enjoy the flowers with us!

People that came to the temple this week were from Paris, France and from Heidleburg, Germany. It was a very busy week. One of Karen's duties in the temple is to occasionally play the organ for early morning Devotional Meetings. It is very interesting to be playing the organ and to hear the songs sung in three different languages all at the same time--English, French and German. Being the organist, sometimes it gets a bit confusing to know exactly where we are in the song!

On Monday, November 1, 2010 we traveled for about 140 miles away to a town by the name of Lahr. Each year they hold a Chrysanthemum Festival and decorate the center of town in beautiful flowers. This year the theme of the festival was Fairy Tales.

This picture was of the street when we first entered into the center of town. Most of the pictures we will not comment on--we just want to share the beauties that we enjoyed.

This part of the castle of the city is the only part of the castle still standing. As you all know we are facinated by the castles.

This depicts Rapunsel and her long hair. Rapunsel is standing at the top in the window and her long braid goes to the ground. Notice the large red bow at the end of the braid.

Hansel and Gretel and the wicked witch.

Peter Rabbit

Don't know what a Hedgehog has to do with Peter Rabbit?

In the very center of town there were vendors selling their ware. The next three pictures is of our favorite--we thought the kids would especially enjoy seeing these pictures. Everything is made out of metal.

There was also a large stage set up and at the time we were there was an orchestra performing classical music. There were also food vendors. It was interesting to us that in the city all of the stores were closed--the only businesses that were open were the restaurants. As you can see there were many many people there the day that we attended. The festival was scheduled to go for about 10 days.

Hand organ music being played

We hope you enjoyed this flower show. We really enjoyed the day!

P.S. For those of you that don't know--if you would like to see a picture a little bigger than it is--click on it and it will enlarge. (Hopefully)