An Extra Day for the Temple to be Open...

Following up on how many came to the temple on Monday, August 6, their national holiday for the birth of the city of San Salvador in the 1500s.
    The La Libertad Stake had over 400 come.  They did sessions every 1 hour 10 min for 6 sessions to accommodate everyone.  The temple was open from 4:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
 A lot of ordinances were done, including a lot of youth, age 12 and up doing vicarious baptisms for the dead, as the Apostle Paul talks about in the Bible.
     Here's President Petersen greeting members as we were leaving the temple.

Another greeting photo....

Here we are on the north side of the temple...

And here's the nice brother who took our photo...

Here are some of buses....at one time there were 14 buses in the parking lot, which included the buses which brought 350 investigators to just be on the temple grounds and listen to the mission president and his wife speak with them in the stake center next to the temple.  (It's fuzzy because I took it out the second floor screened window at the end of our 7-apartment complex.)

And here's a side note about these photos of the temple president greeting these patrons...
    I had e-mailed this to some of Walt's nieces and nephews.  One darling niece, Andrea Degler from the Boise area, e-mailed back:
"I wanted to warn all those young people he's greeting that my Uncle Walt sometimes gives horse bites!"

I need to e-mail Andy back to tell her that her Uncle Walt is more dignified here that at family reunions...