I always knew that Kirtland was in Ohio, but as it is well known I am not very good with geography and I had no idea that my sisters house was, was only a half hour or so from it. We decided to go see it and it was so very cool. A lot of the little town is not the original buildings but they did their best at recreating it.
This store however is the original, the original floor boards and walls, and the door that we were standing in front of is the very door that has always been there. The couple missionaries that gave us the tour reminded us that it was the original door and that it is the same one that Joseph Smith walked through personally. The picture above is the store from the inside, very modest but useful, not WalMart by any means but very cool. They had guns and buttons, fabric, thread and grains etc. Maybe it was WalMart.
The main level of the store is the store and store room of course and then some modest living space. The upper level is all "house". Up there was awesome, they showed us the room where Joseph and all his men would meet and where Emma did typical wife things, like make them food. Also it was the home of the room that housed the first School of The Prophets. There are 2 prophets that I have been very impressed with, in a way that I feel like we could be buddies or family, President Hinkley and Joseph Smith. Not to underestimate the power of the others, but there is something about them that keeps them both very close to my heart. There is no doubt in my mind that anything either one of them has ever said is anything but the truth, so to be in a room where Joseph Smith recieved revelations was VERY surreal.
This is just a photo of the "town" how cute huh. Even though these are not the actual structures that have always been there, they have tried to re-create it to be as close to what it would have looked like as they could.
This is a picture of the Whitman's "summer kitchen" it actually had a door on each side so they could be left open and let the breeze come through, wow. I for sure would have never cooked.
This is a logging place, they cut the wood that was used to build the temple right here. Notice little Jack is having fun on one of the logs on the bottom.
I forgot what this building was called, but they did stuff with ashes and stuff to make another kind of substance. It was cool, they kind of created a place to help guys have a job etc.
And here we were in front of the Kirtland temple, we couldn't go inside, it was closed when we were there, but it was still very cool to see. It is amazing they could build something like this so long ago. We had a great time and the kids were so good, they totally trooped around on a "grown up" day. We did go to a yummy, yummy place for lunch called Penn Station, Jenny's favorite. It was a good ending to a very good day!!
I always knew that Kirtland was in Ohio, but as it is well known I am not very good with geography and I had no idea that my sisters house was, was only a half hour or so from it. We decided to go see it and it was so very cool. A lot of the little town is not the original buildings but they did their best at recreating it.
This store however is the original, the original floor boards and walls, and the door that we were standing in front of is the very door that has always been there. The couple missionaries that gave us the tour reminded us that it was the original door and that it is the same one that Joseph Smith walked through personally. The picture above is the store from the inside, very modest but useful, not WalMart by any means but very cool. They had guns and buttons, fabric, thread and grains etc. Maybe it was WalMart.
The main level of the store is the store and store room of course and then some modest living space. The upper level is all "house". Up there was awesome, they showed us the room where Joseph and all his men would meet and where Emma did typical wife things, like make them food. Also it was the home of the room that housed the first School of The Prophets. There are 2 prophets that I have been very impressed with, in a way that I feel like we could be buddies or family, President Hinkley and Joseph Smith. Not to underestimate the power of the others, but there is something about them that keeps them both very close to my heart. There is no doubt in my mind that anything either one of them has ever said is anything but the truth, so to be in a room where Joseph Smith recieved revelations was VERY surreal.
This is just a photo of the "town" how cute huh. Even though these are not the actual structures that have always been there, they have tried to re-create it to be as close to what it would have looked like as they could.
This is a picture of the Whitman's "summer kitchen" it actually had a door on each side so they could be left open and let the breeze come through, wow. I for sure would have never cooked.
This is a logging place, they cut the wood that was used to build the temple right here. Notice little Jack is having fun on one of the logs on the bottom.
I forgot what this building was called, but they did stuff with ashes and stuff to make another kind of substance. It was cool, they kind of created a place to help guys have a job etc.
And here we were in front of the Kirtland temple, we couldn't go inside, it was closed when we were there, but it was still very cool to see. It is amazing they could build something like this so long ago. We had a great time and the kids were so good, they totally trooped around on a "grown up" day. We did go to a yummy, yummy place for lunch called Penn Station, Jenny's favorite. It was a good ending to a very good day!!
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This looks like you had tons and tons of fun!!! Good job!!!! What a fun time for all of you!!!
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