ShepAlder Temple #45: Bismarck, North Dakota

We traveled from one end of the country to the other in the past couple weeks in order for me to go to various internship interviews. One interview was at the University of North Dakota counseling center, and I convinced Josh that this was the perfect opportunity to visit one of the temples we never thought we'd see: Bismarck!

This temple was dedicated in 1999 and is a smaller temple, similar to Fresno, Medford, Palmyra, and Detroit. It's the 61st operating temple and is pretty plain, so I don't have much to say about the interior. However, the temple workers were beyond nice and we chatted with some of them for awhile. They wished me luck on my interview (which was the next day) and I think it helped that we started our trip with the temple.

It was extremely windy and our luggage was unaccounted for, but luckily we had planned ahead and brought appropriate clothing in our carry-ons. Josh had to change in the parking lot of the stake center because he was dealing with other stuff and forgot to change in the airport. 

We found the temple easily. There isn't much to Bismarck, though we were thankful it was a beautiful day since we were so worried about snow.

We flew into Bismarck specifically to attend the temple, so the fact that our luggage was lost was worrisome because we had to head to Grand Forks for my interview the next day and might not have been reunited with our luggage until Fargo or Texas. But as we were leaving, Josh listened to his voicemail and our luggage had reappeared at the Bismarck airport! So my fear that I would have to wear some cobbled together outfit rather than the one I had planned was allayed.