Kirtland Trip

The Kirtland Temple. It was a little odd because it's owned by the Reorganized Church, or now the Communtiy of Christ, so you have to watch a video of theirs and they take you on a tour and they just don't have things quite right. It was still really neat to be inside the temple and see Joseph Smith's office and where he sat at the pulpit and where the saints actually walked. They've done a really good job at keeping things as nice as possible and as original as possible. Even the front doors and the same color of green they were originally. What surpised me as that their church still holds meetings in the Temple and have big gatherings there. How would that be?

I don't know if you can see in the picture but by his time of the day Kylan was hot, tired, and just plain grouchy so she was screaming while Kurt took the picture.

The grounds were very well kept and very pretty and green.

The Johnson Inn

Us at the sawmill.

Above is the Newel K. Whitney store as you can see and the picture below it is the upstairs of the store where Joseph Smith received several sections of the Doctrine and Covenants. It was weird to picture him sitting there. Right next to this room was a little tiny room that was the School of the Prophets. I didn't get a picture of it, don't know why! But it was such a small little room and the Sister Missionary said they'd fit up to 30 men in it and they'd all sit there and smoke their pipes while Emma (Smith)'s bedroom was right next door. The Whitney store is also an original frame.

Above is the home of Newel & Elizabeth Whitney. The frame of the home is original but of course there's been lots of updates. The chair in the picture above is an actual chair Newel Whitney built. Even some of the floor boards were original.