Me and Mat went to Nauvoo 20 years ago, so it was drastically different this time! Remember when President Hinckley announced this temple? I remember the audible gasp from the congregation at the Conference Center. That was such a great time! It's a beautiful temple inside and out. Me and the girls did some baptisms, I was so grateful to have them there with me! Mat and the other kids saw some of the sites, then we met at the evening musical program with the young and senior missionaries. I spent an hour at the Lands and Records office and found that I have more ancestors than I thought that owned land in Nauvoo and the surrounding area. It's fun to know that, I want to dig deeper into our family history and learn more about the people that came before us.
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| taken as the sun was setting over the Mississippi River |
It was a blessing to run into my cousin, Kathleen, and her family! Her daughter is one of the performing missionaries. Unfortunately, she's very ill, so they were there to take her home. We got to see her in her last performance. She had to leave her mission 19 days early. All the performances were so great, the pageant included!
I'm grateful the church has preserved the place our first prophet was martyred. There is a special spirit there. For a long time I thought that Joseph, Hyrum, and the others were betrayed by the jailer (who lived on the first floor). But it didn't happen that way at all. He was away when the mob of hundreds of raging men came and forced their way in. Knowing they were being held upstairs, they rushed up the stairs while others surrounded the building, guns at the ready. I'm including a picture of what Lucy Mack Smith wrote on seeing her murdered sons:
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