El Templo de Mormon en Ciudad de Mexico

During conversation class, Sara Bridge said that she and the blonde Sarah were going to the Mexico City temple. Lauren said that she wanted to go also, so I told Sara that if Lauren went, I’d go. I ran home, made a lunch, got my camera, and met them on the main road Zapata.

On the bus ride, I sat next to Lauren and we talked about our insecurities. I really like Lauren because she’s fun and easy to talk to. I hope we hang out in Utah.

After we got off the bus, we took the subway to a part of the city and then a taxi to the temple. We took some pictures and then went inside the visitors center.




While both Sara(h)’s went to a session inside the temple, Lauren and I went into a room with a couch and TV to watch the new Joseph Smith movie the Mormon church just made. As I watched the movie, I asked myself a question: Do I believe in the Joseph Smith story? I answered yes. It’s hard for me to even understand myself because of the awkward position I’m in. Yes, I do believe that Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus, yet I am not Mormon and believe that gay isn’t a sin. It’s confusing to me and that’s probably why I don’t like to think about it.

After the movie, Lauren and I walked around reading the signs in Spanish. We were actually able to read and understand them all. It was also a lot of fun.

When Sara and Sarah got back, we took a cab to the Mexico City airport to catch a bus to Cuernavaca. While in the airport, I saw a Cinnabon store and immediately bought one. We hadn’t eaten dinner, so I saved it while we went to find food. As we looked, I found a Subway and got really excited! I haven’t had Subway in 2 months and ordered a meatball sub. It was so incredible! Then I ate my cinnabon which was fantastic! Yes, lots and lots of calories, but very good.


We got on the bus back to Cuernavaca and realized that we were sitting in the back of the bus in a special area separated from the rest of the bus by a door. We had our own room with 4 chairs facing each other with a table. We were all excited to be traveling 1st class.

As we drove home, Lauren pulled out my journal and started to read it. I don-t mind since I put most of what I wrote there on this blog. She found an entry about me buying stocks and then we started talking about stocks and financial stuff. They thought I knew lots about finances, and I guess I do, but it was fun to tell them the things that I do know.

I don’t know why, but I told Sara Bridge about my business idea of family history interviews. Her face immediately lit up and she told me that she had the same idea. She told me that she’s really good at the interviews, so I asked her if she would like to go into business together. She said she’d love to and so we started talking about our idea. I’m really excited because I didn’t’ think I’d achieve that goal (starting a business) this year—now I will.

I’m going to Canada 3 days after I get back to Utah to help Sara do an interview with her grandma. I think this is going to be awesome!