Less than two weeks after being baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Cody Byrd, who has served in the military for four years, had the opportunity to do what he described as “the most wonderful thing that I’ve ever been able to do” — attend the Washington D.C. Temple for the first time.
Byrd, a freshman at Southern Virginia University, was able to attend the temple recently along with nearly 200 of his fellow students and Southern Virginia faculty and staff on the university’s eighth annual Service Day.