Visa Trip / Freiberg Temple

It was a wonderful surprise for us to find out that for our first visa renewal trip we were asked to courier some passports also. That would mean we had to leave early enough to drop the passports off and stay until our visa would let us back into Russia. Oleg, from the visa and travel department, also suggested that we take a side trip into Freiberg, Germany and go to the temple because it was only a few hours away by train. We were thrilled and left two days later. Germany was a balmy 4 degrees C and that was warmer than we had ever been in Moscow! After the train ride to Freiberg, we started to walk into town. People smiled at us and offered to help us. We saw lots of children and even the alphabet was something we recognized and felt comfortable with. Jim wanted to use his German but most people wanted to speak English! We found the town and the first place we went was the BAKERY. We bought four pasteries (after all we needed some treats for the evening and something to eat for breakfast before the temple). We ate dinner at the Ratskeller and then it was a short taxi ride to the temple. We stayed at the temple housing and did sealings and a session before we had to leave on the train the next day. However, we walked from the temple to the train station because we knew the way and also we made a necessary stop at the bakery to pick up food for a picnic lunch at the train station.

Freiberg Temple and the patron housing behind it.

Freiberg Temple


Patron Housing

GREEN GRASS!!!

Happy as Ever!!!

A family from Slovinia we met at the temple.

Buying a slice of meat and cheese for a picnic lunch.

Buying rolls for our sandwiches.

Having a picnic while waiting for the train.

Freiberg train station.

Dresden train station where we transfered trains to go to Prague