Latex: How to continue an enumeration?

\begin{enumerate}
    \item This is an item.
    \item This is another item. We will now stop the enumeration.
    \newcounter{enumTemp}
    \setcounter{enumTemp}{\theenumi}
  \end{enumerate}
  \texttt{enumTemp} is now \theenumTemp. We can continue the enumeration like so:
  \begin{enumerate}
    \setcounter{enumi}{\theenumTemp}
    \item The list goes on
    \item and on.
  \end{enumerate}