Freiberg Temple Trip

This past weekend, we went with the youth from our ward on a 3 day trip to Freiberg, Germany to visit the Temple and the surrounding area! Regan is still the young men's president, so he was going no matter what, but Sasha and I thought we'd tag along, too. We had a car full of young men for the 5.5 hr drive - THAT was interesting haha!

this is a pretty good representation of the drive.

We drove to hostel at the Temple and checked in, then our whole group drove into Dresden (about 40 min from the Temple) and spent the evening touring the city! Dresden is really beautiful. The weather was a little dreary, but at least it didn't rain on us! 

Sasha and I in Dresden

The next morning, we got up much too early so that we could be on the road around 7 AM - our group went to a spot near Dresden where Thomas S. Monson dedicated East Germany in 1975! One of the other leaders gave a great fireside about the dedication, but I missed a lot of it because I had to chase Sasha down the road. It was a still a really cool experience and a beautiful place!

The Brants at the place of dedication!

After that, we took the kids back to the temple so they could do baptisms and a service project. The weather was SO BEAUTIFUL (at least for the first part of the day). I wish we would have taken our family picture at the temple then, but we took it the next day when it was overcast again. Oh well. At least I got some good pictures of Sasha with a blue sky!

Sasha LOVES to see the Temple!

That evening, our group wandered around downtown Freiberg, played some ultimate frisbee (to the great curiosity of passing Germans haha), and had some pretty good Döners for dinner! The next morning, we had to be out of the hostel by 7:30 AM, so once again I was up well before I wanted to be! We had breakfast, then packed up and hit the road! After about 2.5 hrs of driving, we reached Wartburg Castle - where Martin Luther translated the New Testament. The castle was huge and the tour was really fascinating! That was one of my favorite stops on the whole trip! 

The Brants and Wartburg Castle!

After that, we drove on to Frankfurt so that some people could get chipotle for (a very late) lunch. That was pretty much it for the trip! We all had a great time! I'm glad we got to visit the Freiberg Temple before we move back to the USA.