Church History Tour-- Oct. 3rd - Oct. 13, 2022

We had wanted to go on a Church History tour for a long time.  The perfect trip finally came to our attention and we booked it. It was with Living Heritge Tours. Tom Pettit was our tour guide.

This is a picture of Tom Pettit with his cute family!!!

 We talked Mike and Linda and Ray and Mary Helen into going with us on the trip.  

 

Monday, October 3rd -Syracuse, NY—We flew to Syracuse New York, arriving there at midnight New York time.  We took a taxi to our motel and tried to get a little bit of sleep before our tour began the next morning and when we would board the bus and meet the other tour participants.  We had already met Tom Pettit.

Tuesday, 4th-– Today was an amazing day.  We visited the Hill Cumorah where Joseph Smith was instructed by the angel Moroni on where to find the Gold Plates and then was later instructed to get the plates and translate the Book of Mormon.  The translation of the Book of Mormon is a great blessing in our lives.  Joseph Smith said the following: 

“I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a person would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts than by any other book.”

Walking up the Hill Cumorah

Meeting the Missionaries in the Visitor Center

We next visited the Smith Family Home, the rebuilt log home where the Angel Moroni's

visits to Joseph Smith took place.  It was amazing to think about the Angel Moroni actually

visiting Joseph several times in this log home.

And we visited the Grandin Press (where the Book of Mormons was first

published). We were told that the floor boards were the original ones that

were there during the time that the Book of Mormon was first published.

It was thrilling to picture in our minds the Prophet, Joseph Smith and his 

devoted brother, Hyrum Smith, walking on the same floor that we were walking.

Uncle Ernest passes away on August 30, 2022, Graveside service was held on September 6th, 2022

 On August 30th, 2022 we were sad to get the news that our beloved Uncle Ernest has passed away.  

He had been a very special part of our lives.  Aunt Grace had passed away just 71/2 months before him on January 11, 2022.  We miss both of them.

Following are some pictures from his earlier years to his later years:

Younger picture of Uncle Ernest!

                                                   

Uncle Ernest with two of his grandsons (Jennifer's boys)

Uncle Ernest with his kids

Michael, Jennifer, Uncle Ernest, Spencer, Brad

Aunt Grace and Uncle Ernest

Uncle Ernest at his birthday celebration.

90 years old on May 22, 2022!!

More birthday pictures!!

Pallbearers and family at the cemetery

September 6, 2022

Labor Day in Colorado--September 2, 3, 4, 5 2022

Our Labor Day weekends spent at the Colorado cabin produce some

 of the best memories we have together as a family.  

Following are a bunch of pictures (in random order) 

showing some of the fun times we have there. 

Deco & Ruger playing chess

Aleyah petting a horse out in the pasture

Arianna petting a horse

Playing on the dock at the reservoir

Ruger and Mason going for a ride

Stacy, Taylor, 

Palmer, Brock, Blue

Unidentified kids jumping off of the dock

Ari and Rylee

Addi and Jensen

Cornhole tournament

Cohen, Taeg, Livvy, Logan

Playing games

Palmer and others at the reservoir

Deco & Ari

Josh swinging a golf club 

while kids watch

Blue with a muddy face

                       

Taylor and Beck

Logan and Beck

Kids playing in the stream

Kids on the deck

Rylee and Ari catching crawdads and fish with nets

Deco and Rylee

Taeg and others watching the cornhole tournament

Noelle, Rome and Palmer

riding on the four wheeler

Ruger and Mason

Camryn and Kristi

Rome, Camryn, Noelle

Mason, Scout and Scout's friend

on a 4-wheeler ride