Sea of Galilee

Boat ride on the sea of galilee – the sea was absolutely glass the last line of “Mater the Tempest is Raging” was extremely poignant.

Jordan River

This is the Jordan River - a litle bit more muddy than I expected but it

has not always been this way - We had a lesson from our religion teacher here and sang the primary song "when Jesus Christ was baptized"

Petra!!!

Petra was so amazing! We saw the famous treasury and the cathedral - but my very very favorite place was the high place. It was a place to see all of Petra and it was wonderful to look out and ponder. It was the highest place in Petra so it was where all the sacrifices were preformed. We could see their alter on the very top of the mountain. I got to ride a donkey all the way to the top!

We went to St. Mark’s House and below it is the Upper Room – where the last supper took place. Reading John 13-17 there as a small group was one of the best experience I have had here.

Hezekiah's Tunnel

Hezekiah’s tunnel was double fun!!! We tromped through water and were in the tunnel for about half an hour. We made it all the way to the pool of Silom and we also saw warren’s shaft!

Halloween!!!

It might be a little late for this but my FHE group celebrated Halloween! THese are our jacolanterns! I carved the BYU Jerusalem Center into mine! It was way fun!

SUCCOT

Succot is pretty much the coolest holiday celbrated here. The Jews remember that the exodus into the wilderness and how their fathers had to stay in tabranacels that were mobile – they had no real home but that God protected them and provided for them. So – right now there are zillions of succots lining the street in Jerusalem. SO….. what do awesome 20 year olds in a cramped space do??? BUILD A SUCCOT! We made it out of mattresses and sheets. And then we watched Pride and Predjudice in it while we ate popcicles and bon-bons!!! It was AMAZING! (PS- please ignore that tiffany still has her mustache on J)