First thing Friday morning we walked back to the market area. We were early for our boat ride so we decided to go into the Strasbourg Cathedral as other people going in. We had been in there maybe 2 or 3 minutes when Good Friday mass began. This Cathedral is called the Cathedrale Notre
Dame de Strasbourg. It was beautiful inside and a special treat to be there for the beginning of the "Good Friday Mass".
We left the cathedral and went to the dock at the appointed time for a narrated tour of the Ile River. We learned how the town of Strasbourg went back and forth between the French and Germans during various disputes and wars. The tour took us through a series of locks and we learned about famous buildings and people on either side of the river. After our river/city tour we wandered around the town square and then departed for Switzerland.
The Frankfurt temple is closed for renovation so the senior missionaries have a 500 kilometre travel radius which includes several temples (Bern Switzerland, Freiburg Germany, Hague Netherlands, and Paris France. We arrived at the Bern Switzerland Temple about 5:30 pm. We checked into our rooms and attended the 7:15 pm session. After the session we went to dinner and then returned to our hotel. Saturday morning we rose early, checked out of our rooms and went back to the temple where we did initiatory work and another endowment session. We appreciate the chance to attend the temple. When we served in Bosnia (2012-2013) we were not able to visit the temple the entire 18 months.
"Building and maintaining temples may not change your life, but spending your time in the temple surely will. . . . I invite you to worship in the temple and pray to feel deeply the Savior’s infinite love for you, that each of you may gain your own testimony that He directs this sacred and ageless work." President Russell M. Nelson, October Conference, 2018
