FW: A 'shield' over the Temple in Cebu, Philippines

[Elizabeth Funk]

Dear Allyson and Clint-

Thought you might enjoy this story and the photos.  Makes me appreciate the temple that much more.

Thanks for all the photos.  How blessed the people in Germany are to have you!  Thanks for inspiring me to do better and to save my pennies for my mission someday.

Love,

Elizabeth

From: Harold Oaks <hrij...@hotmail.com>
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013 1:49 PM
Subject: FW: A 'shield' over the Temple in Cebu, Philippines

We just go this email from a former student of Harold's - We wanted to share it with you.  Very impressive & interesting.

Love, Elder & Sister Oaks

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:31:21 -0600
Subject: A 'shield' over the Temple in Cebu, Philippines

Kinda makes me feel good about my choice of religions.  :)
 

 

Protection of the Temple

President Schmutz told the most amazing story to Elder and Sister Cropper and I am copying her words, “A woman who was visiting in Cebu, stood in her high rise hotel window shooting pictures of the city view. She saw the temple not far off and took several photos. After looking at the pictures in the camera it puzzled her greatly. The camera was seeing something that she couldn’t see. She went back to the balcony that evening and took some more, and they reflected the same phenomenon.

She was so intrigued she set out to find the building. She showed up at the mission office on the temple grounds and asked about what the building is and what it is used for. She then produced her camera and showed Sister E, the office manager, the photos she had taken.

There were a couple dozen photos of the temple, some close ups, some at night, some day, and in every photo there was a visible bubble over the temple, like a rainbow without the colors. In some, the bubble was large, others just barely covering Moroni. In a few there was a double layer. It was certainly astonishing, and though it may be explicable through some sort of law of physics or light refraction process, it was nonetheless provocative. Sister Ernstrom copied the pictures onto her computer and Elder Cropper of course got a copy of the pictures”. 

 

That is pretty amazing, don’t you think? I am glad that I live in that bubble a great deal of the time.

 

LDS Temple photographed by a non-member from her hotel view of the city.