The Mexico City Temple and the Last week in the MTC!

Hello All! 

Another great week here in the MTC! I can't believe that it is my last Pday in the MTC! Next week Monday morning I will be flying out to Argentina, Córdoba and I couldn't be more excited to head out into the field. I am definitely nervous about the language and being in a different country, but I know I am where I am supposed to be at this time in my life. It is definitely going to be sad leaving my district but I know I'll see them all again in a couple years! 

The flight down to Buenos Aires is 9 hours and 40 minutes long which is WILD and I won't be done traveling since I'll either be taking a bus or flying to Córdoba! It's going to be an adventure for sure, but this time I'll have other missionaries on the plane with me so I won't be the only one. 

Today I was able to go to the Mexico City Temple which is absolutely amazing! It is the biggest temple in all of central and south America and it is like the salt lake city temple based on it's fame, down in south America! The endowment session was in Spanish so I had to wear some heads phones to listen in English which was kind of awesome! It was a very cool experience and I am grateful for the opportunity. The Mexico City Temple was the first temple built in Mexico and at the time back in the 1980's the church didn't own much land that could have a temple built on it, so someone from the Church decided to take the building plans and ask the Government to build a temple and they accepted! However, here's the crazy part, the Mexico City Temple is still owned by the Government to this day! The church and the government made an agreement saying that any Government official could ask to walk through the temple, so the church would have to close the temple down and stop operations and when the official was done looking around they would re-dedicate the temple and open back up. The amazing part from this story is that the Church built a massive visitors center next to the temple with the Christus statue in a room with very large windows facing towards the road, and whenever a Government official visited the temple they took them to the visitors center first and to this day the Mexico City Temple has never been closed down due to a Government inspection. Another  amazing fact is that on the top of the Temple, The Angel Moroni is holding the gold plates which is so cool! The Mexico City Temple is one of five temples around the world where you can see The Angel Moroni holding the gold plates. The other four temples are Los Angeles California, Washington D.C., Seattle Washington, and the Jordan River Utah Temple.

Anyway, It was a short and wonderful week and I can't think of anywhere else I would want to be right now in my life!

Love Elder Burbank

My companion and I In front of the Temple Sign.

The MTC circle of flags at night.

The Angel Moroni holding the Gold plates.

A section of the Visitors center.

Me in front of the Temple.

My name tag with the temple in the background.

A picture of the whole temple.

Our District 5C.