Day 9, Feb 3, Temple #6, Baton Rouge










We have stayed just one tiny step ahead of this dreadful weather sweeping an icy chill over most of the nation.  We left Hot Springs the morning the rain and chill moved in and were only hours in front of the ice storm that shut down Dallas.  Today the rain caught up with us and made for an extremely wet and dangerous journey to Baton Rouge, but my husband is an excellently skilled driver and we were soon safely ensconced in our first Harvest Host's driveway.  Harvest Host is a social platform where RV lovers share their space for free with other RVer's passing through.  Kyle, our host, lives in a suburb of Baton Rouge not far from the temple and has kindly provided electricity for us tonight.  Such a generous site for generous folk.

The Baton Rouge Temple was the smallest we've yet seen.  There were only 14 patrons in the entire temple, and only us 2 performing sealings.  I was even able to spend a few moments in the celestial room entirely by myself, an opportunity which has never come my way in my 45 years of temple devotion.  Of interest was one gentleman we met tonight who testified to us that the Temple is indeed the House of the Lord.  He works as the temple physical facilities manager, caretaking the building and grounds.  He told us that many times he has been repairing something when the Spirit instructed him to perform the task in a different way.  Each time, he said, the Lord's way was far superior to his own.  

Three amazing things: 1- that we came through hours of heavy rain and road spray and massive semi trucks and tight construction lanes without any incident, 2- that I wasn't robbed, raped or pillaged at the raunchiest and most nasty-of-them-all gas stations to be found in Louisiana (nay, the entire US),        and 3- the actual existence of the most odd fowl one has ever seen...the chuck, a cross between a duck and a chicken.  Only in Louisiana.


Good deed:  While filling up with gas at the world's most disgusting gas station, Aaron was approached by a guy in a beater junk car and asked if he could spare some money for gas.  Because the guy wasn't asking for cash which could easily be converted into who-knows-what to shoot in one's veins, and because Aaron is a truly generous man, he filled the tank for this fellow sojourner.  Aaron makes me so dang proud.

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  1. UnknownFebruary 4, 2022 at 3:26 PM

    Nice! hey, if you're still in Baton Rouge, Dan Eastman lives there if you wanted to say hi or needed a tip on some sites to see while you're there! Hope you guys are having lots of fun!

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