Two Saturdays ago Russell and I went on a church history tour downtown Salt Lake. (I know we live about 15 mins away, but it was still fun.) Russ planned the tour and we only ended up going to about half of the places, because we were pooped by the end.We started our day doing a session at the Draper temple. It is such a beautiful temple and we had never done a session there before.
We ate at a yummy Thai restaurant named Thai Lotus then started our tour. We spent quite a while at the Church History Museum, which is great. There is a lot to learn there.
The original death masks of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. One of the workers told us that "back then" they took molds of people's faces when they died to preserve how they looked. They didn't have photographs.
This desk was used by several of the past prophets
A pulpit like the one used in the Conference Center
This was neat. A page of Pres. Hinckley's notes before giving a talk.
We went to see the Christus statue at the Visitor's Center
We walked past the Conference Center and the Tabernacle
We went to the cemetery in Federal Heights to visit Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley's grave
This was on the back of the monument
We also ended up seeing the gravesites of Pres. John Taylor, Pres. David O. McKay, Pres. Heber J. Grant, J. Golden Kimball, and (I think) Orson Pratt.
It was fun spending the day downtown with my hubby and learning more about our church's history.
A pulpit like the one used in the Conference Center
This was neat. A page of Pres. Hinckley's notes before giving a talk.
We went to see the Christus statue at the Visitor's Center
We walked past the Conference Center and the Tabernacle
We went to the cemetery in Federal Heights to visit Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley's grave
This was on the back of the monument
We also ended up seeing the gravesites of Pres. John Taylor, Pres. David O. McKay, Pres. Heber J. Grant, J. Golden Kimball, and (I think) Orson Pratt.
It was fun spending the day downtown with my hubby and learning more about our church's history. 
2 comments:
We need to go do this, we kinda have. We'll go walk around temple square all the time. You can't get over the beauty of that temple. It never ceases to amaze me.
Hey Em! I was looking on Tori's blog and saw that you are on here. How's life. Looks like you guys have been having a lot of fun. We should get together sometime. We just got the internet at our house so we are finally up with the time. You should come check out our blog daleandcambria.blogspot.com
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