Saturday, September 03, 2016 – Baptism’s of the Dead, Wagon Ride, Tour Historic Sites of Old Nauvoo

Our day started at the Nauvoo Temple. Valerie and Samantha were baptized for the dead by Nathan and I got to do the confirmations.  It is a wonderful privilege to serve in the temple. Samantha turned twelve two weeks ago and this is already her second time to do baptism for the dead. Last week she went with the Ward Young Woman as part of the Ward youth activity. Lucky girl!

 Next we went to the Nauvoo wagon ride and took a tour of the streets of Old Nauvoo. Our tour guide was Sis. Hall. The wagon ride with the running commentary is a nice way to see the various homes and shops on the streets of historic Nauvoo. Sis Hall did a great job, she. gave us a brief explanation of all of the buildings and their history. It was very informative.

 Right before the wagon ride started Sis. Johnson had a very stressful and painful experience. A wasp flew up her skirt and stung her three times on her legs. It took her several seconds to get the wasp out.  She was in a lot of pain but fortunately the pain didn’t last very long. Within an hour she was completely pain free. She said this was the first time this has ever happened to her.

After the wagon ride we took tours of the Wainwright Shop, Wheelwright, Blacksmith, Brick Yard, School, Browning Gun Shop and the Times & Seasons Print Shop. All of these various venues are crowd favorites and the most visited in Nauvoo. The Browning Home and Gun Shop is the most visited of all the historic sites in Nauvoo. And for good reason, the Jonathan Browning gun display is legendary. Members of the church and non-members alike come from all over the nation to see this historic site.

I don’t have time and space here to tell you all of the wonderful things we learned at each one of the historic sites but suffice it to say they were all very good and informative. We should be able to visit several more tomorrow after church.