Day 5

We went to the Fairport Harbor. I read a part about how Lucy Smith led a group there from Palmyra to Kirtland. She was pretty feisty. It was so stormy we read it on the bus instead of at the harbor. Ken lost his camera there but Paul Egbert found it in an overhead bin!

Then we went to Kirtland. First we stopped at the Morley Farm. Karl Ricks Anderson, who wrote a book about Kirtland (which we bought) gave a lecture at the visitors center. He said that the saints spent more time in Kirtland than in Nauvoo and Joseph received more revelations there! That puts it in perspective. We walked up a hill towards where a log school house was where the first High Priests were ordained.

Our visit to the Kirtland Temple was amazing, mainly because they let us sing "The Spirit of God Like a Fire is Burning." I played and Brenda led. They even had an LDS hymnbook on the piano!  The Community of Christ owns it and has a nice visitors center there and they keep the grounds lovely.  When we visited it before it was run down and not cared for, so it was nice to see the difference.

Neil and Brenda

The Whitney Store was interesting. There is an LDS visitors center there too so we saw a movie about what happened there. The town of Kirtland was convinced to move the road that ran through the middle of the sites. They refused until they saw a photo of Steve Young on the cover of a magazine wearing a t-shirt that read "I love Kirtland, Ohio." They said if they could get a poster of that magazine cover (plus the 15 million they had already been offered) they would move the road. So now you can walk around to the sawmill, the ashery, the school house and the Whitney store and home.

The Williams and Dan, the bus driver, and his wife

 

Emma's table

In the evening we went to the Kirtland Stake Center for a pizza party.