Jetlogged: Garden of Gethsemane

I'm starting to run out of greetings...

So this past Sabbath a group of us walked to the Garden of Gethsemane after church. It was my first time there (there is a church and a small grove of olive trees to commemorate the place where Jesus Christ preformed the atonement). Across from the church is an actual garden, but you have to have an appointment to go there, and we did not, so we are going to go back sometime...

The entrance :-)

Me, Kate, Rachel, and David

I really love olive trees, and what they symbolize :-)

the word "Gethsemane" means "olive press" so the Garden of the Olive Press where Jesus Christ bled from every pore out of the pain of atoning for the sins of the world would have been an olive grove where olives were crushed into olive oil.

Beautiful.

Roommates! Rachel, Me, Sarah, Sarina :-)

our group :-) (Lindee, Sara, Romeo, Sarah, India, Rachel, Lizzie, Kate, Me, Tess, Michelle, Sarina)

candid ;-)

The beautiful church commemorating the Garden of Gethsemane

Reading the account of the Savior going to pray in Gethsemane found in Matthew 26

On our way back, I saw this graffiti and I thought it was cool--I've been taking a lot of pictures of graffiti lately... I kindof love it.

We walked through the Orson Hyde Memorial Garden on our way to and from the center. It is basically this park on the Mount of Olives (just a few minutes walk from the center--between the center and Gethsemane)