Day 2

We went on a Maid of the Mist boat tour of Niagara Falls. That was exciting! We got pretty wet, but fortunately they provided plastic rain capes.

We drove along the Niagara River. We stopped at Fort George where there was a big battle between the US and England.

Then the church history part of the tour began. We stopped at Mendon, New York. We stopped at the Tomlinson Inn where Samuel Smith sold a copy of the Book of Mormon to Phineas Young.

At the Mendon Cemetery we visited the grave of Miriam, Brigham Young's first wife. Also Vilate Kimball. Brenda told about her. This was on one of the graves: "Nor friend nor physician could save This body from the mouldering grave."

We had a catered supper at a building that was a church during the time the Youngs and Kimballs lived in Mendon. Brigham may have helped build it. After the dinner we had a presentation about the Young Family. The parents were played by a cute little couple from Australia--Mal and Val Dearden. Their eleven children each were represented. Eldon was Brigham and Ken was Phineas. They told about the struggles and hardships of each of the children and then ended with this question posed by the father, John Young: "If all of us could go through all of those trials and hardships and none of us ever quit, is there any reason any of you should ever give up in the face of trials?" I thought about our family and how each of our kids has trials and hope none of them ever gives up!