Seoul LDS Temple

A few weekends ago we were able to go to the Seoul Temple.

It was awesome.  

Some things about it---

There are bunk houses for people to stay the night in for a small fee because it is the temple for.

I heard once that Korea is the temple for parts of Japan, China, Russia, and many 

There is also a two story small house for kids/people to hang out in while adults go to the temple. It was a little bit of a mad house, but lucky for us we had a really nice Korean lady offer to stay with the kids so we could go.  Koreans are so laid back they have no problem letting their kids run wild in the house alone...us Westerners are a little more protective!

There is a cafeteria in the Temple, but we didn't eat there because I guess they only serve ramen, and real Korean ramen is to spicy for my kids. 

 Other than being able to attend the temple---We met another American family at the temple--who had four kids...See the blonde girl in the picture above---One is Pepper and the other is the daughter of the lady we met.  I kept getting them confused since they both have blond hair and purple coats.  

This is Sedona and their son Lucas.  Her four kids are about the same age as my kids so it was perfect and we are going to go and visit them next week.  We are so excited!!

The landscape is pretty, but don't touch it.  The bushes here are super poky and hurt to touch--but in that area behind the bushes was a small green yard surrounded by tree's.  It is a beautiful area. 

Lucas ran into an old mission friend while there.  The guy recognized Lucas and they were able to talk for a little bit.  Small world in the LDS world.

I thought this old man was interesting looking.  

The whole building was empty except these two guys.  

This is the bus that the church rented to take us to Seoul.  It was almost full and on the way home they pulled out the microphone and did a testimony meeting.  EVERYONE spoke, including me.

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So I went to the Church's Official Website and looked up some facts.

Like this temple is the 1st temple built on Mainland Asia.

IN 1955 Korea was open for missionary work.

The 1st institute building out side of North America was built where the Korean Temple is now built.

Koreans are awesome family historians and one Korean even has 'records' dating back to AD 927!!

The Korean people helped raise money to build a temple and they were able to enlarge it from the original plans because the Koreans had donated so much money.