Tuesday, April 2, 2013
On Tuesday morning we woke up and checked out of the house we were staying at. Then we took the teenagers to the Nauvoo Temple to do baptisms. It was such a neat experience and probably one of my favorite parts of the whole trip. We did family names that Steve's dad and step-mom brought. It was so neat to be in the Temple with grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents and cousins. Before we went in to do the baptisms the temple workers told us that the Nauvoo temple was the first temple to have baptisms for the dead performed in it and that they were done in the original baptistery which stood in the same place as the new one. And that many of the early church leaders including Joseph Smith did baptisms there.
After we left the Temple, we drove to Carthage. But first we stopped for lunch at Hardees, AKA Carl's Jr. (Carl's Jr. is better)(Although my kids were delighted when they asked for fry sauce and they actually had it! Because usually Carl's Jr. is always out of it when we go. Except the girl behind the counter said, "What is that, the ketchup and mayo stuff?" And then I think she mixed it up for them because they brought it out to us in bowls. I guess they get a lot of Utahans out that way asking for that ketchup and mayo stuff)
After we ate we went to visit Carthage Jail,
the place of the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith.
This is the room where the prisoners were held. You can see the bullet hole in the door that killed Hyrum. The window at the end of the room is the one Joseph fell out of after he was shot.
I had to include this picture. Reagan is running one direction and Emily another.
It looks like Reagan is miniaturized and Emily is carrying her.
After leaving Carthage, we returned to Nauvoo.
We went to see the Smith home and also see where Joseph, Hyrum and Emma Smith are buried.
This is the marker for Hyrum, Joseph and Emma's graves
Joseph's Parents
Mike and Reagan
Next we headed over to the park where we built a fire to roast marshmallows.
We ate a picnic dinner and the kids played while we were waiting for a play to start.
Zac showing grandpa how to heat up the pizza leftover from last night.
That evening we went to see a play called Rendezvous at Old Nauvoo.
After the play Emily and the kids were explaining Emily's little mistake to one of the actors. The day before when we went on the carriage and wagon rides, they had quilts we could take and use. So when we walked into the play and Emily saw a box of quilts by the back door, she thought those were for our use as well. She picked one up, wrapped it around her, and sat down to watch the play. We had so many people with us that I didn't walk in with her and she was sitting all the way on the other end of our row from me, so I had no idea this took place. During one part of the play a group of ladies came in from the back carrying quilts and went up on the stage to "sew" their quilts. That is when Emily noticed that one lady did not have a quilt in her hand but was "sewing" air. One lady leaned over and asked her, "Where's your quilt?" To which she replied with a shrug and said, "I don't know, it wasn't there."
After the play, it was time to say good-bye to Nauvoo and head back to Missouri But before we left we drove over to the temple. It was so beautiful all lit up at night. It was so neat the whole time we were in Nauvoo, it didn't matter where we were, we could always see the Temple up on the hill.
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