In His Footsteps: Life in Jerusalem

This post is filled with lots of random adventures I have taken over the past couple of weeks. Our class schedule is not as heavy and we have been doing several field trips a week (as compared to one before), so I have spent a lot time exploring.

Davidson Archaelogical Park. This is the southern wall of the temple mount. The Savior would have stepped on the stones behind us (the left corner of the picture).

We went to the Kotel Tunnel, which is underneath the western wall of the temple mount. We are standing in front of a Herodian Stone, which would have been there during Christ's time.

Here we are in front of the Western Wall of the temple mount. The Kotel tunnel is underneath this wall.

After our clinicals at a Palestinian hospital we visited Hadassa, an Israeli hospital. It was huge! It was connected to a shopping center.

Here we are on the roofs of the Old City

Oscar Schindler's Gravesite

We ate humus, falafel, pita and french fries on the roof of this restaurant. We had a great view of the Dome of the Rock (behind us) and other buildings in the Old City.

Dome of the Rock

Terra Santa, one of the many Christian churches we visited on our fieldtrip. There is a guest house connected to this church that Orson Hyde stayed at when he came to Jerusalem.

Orson Hyde engraved his name in this door that other guests engraved their name in.

We went to the Israel museum. This is a model of what Jerusalem would have looked like during Christ's time. The temple mount is on the right side.

Art at the Israel Museum

We celebrated Thanksgiving a week early because we will be in Galilee on Thanksgiving Day. I sure miss being home with my wonderful family for the holidays (and really miss Dad's mashed potatoes and Mom's rolls and sweet potato casserole. Oh and I miss pumpkin cookies, pie, bread, etc. But I am SO grateful to be here!)

Our Home :)

This is the place we sing at the Garden Tomb. We have met a lot of amazing people from doing this. A highlight of being in Jerusalem has been testifying of Christ through song.