The day of holidays

Today I and about 98% of all the JC students got up at four in the morning so that we could see the sun rise on the western wall on Shavuot. It was a simple experience, there wasn't any organized celebration as far as I was aware of but the place was absolutely packed! Everyone there was quietly reading or reciting personal prayers to heaven. It was beautiful and awe inspiring. After our early morning adventures I went with a group to Mass. Seeing as today is also the day of Pentecost I thought it a rather fitting time for me attend one for the first time. I really enjoyed it! At first it was surprising to be participating in a form of Christian worship again. I mean we have services as Latter day Saints bit I've been to so many Islamic and Jewish places of worship recently that I was genuinely surprised to be singing praises to Jesus Christ. I loved it, of corse it was different from what I'm used to but I loved to sing and worship with other Christians together in Jerusalem on the day if Pentecost. There is something remarkable about the people of faith that live here in Jerusalem, there is a certain... humility about them I guess, every person of faith that I have met shows a quiet awe and respect for this place the holy land. What happened here is bigger than all of us, and it seems to me that many people
understand that.

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