Following the instructions through the wiki…, the download is hell slow on my connection so I wanted to just manually download the whonix-gw and whonix-ws template files but I could not find the location anywhere can someone please provide me a link?
Also, any tips on how to manually install the templates ? I have no idea 
Not a Whonix specific question. The template download and installation is more up to Qubes. And Qubes dom0 is currently based on Fedora, so reusing native Fedora tools.
The better place to ask is:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/qubes-users
I suggest to rephrase your question for better search engine results.
“How to manually download Whonix images from Qubes yum repo?”
->
“How to manually download and install Fedora rpm images from yum repos”
http://yum.qubes-os.org/r3.0/templates-community/
http://yum.qubes-os.org/r3.0/templates-community/rpm/
You can download from there.
Other required building blocks: