Saturday was our last day in Nauvoo. :( We could only spend half a day there so we planned to go to the temple. I do have to say, it was awesome! We were able to do an endowment session and a sealing session! If you haven't figured it out already, I absolutely love this temple. I think its a mixture of how beautiful it is and understanding the sacrifice that it took for the Saints to build it to do their temple work. It's an amazing place and is definitely the Lord's House.
All of the temple workers that we met were all really excited that we were there. They asked us about ourselves, where we were from, why we had come to visit, and such. The sealer was even more excited that we had come to do sealings. I guess they don't get tons of out-of-towners for sealings much.
After we got done, he told us to go to the Mission President's office to see Joseph Smith's sword that he actually used for the Mormon Batallion. It was really neat. He had even etched his name into the blade. Then they took us down to see the Baptismal Font. It's absolutely gorgeous as well. It's actually the largest font in any temple and it was reconstructed to be the same size as the original one. They made it so large so that they could do 2 baptisms at once! Interesting, huh?
Well, enough of the blabbing... after we finished at the temple, we headed out to return home. We made a couple of stops along the way. Once at a sporting goods store and once at the Galleria Mall in St. Louis. Fun Fun! We finally made it home all safe and sound at 7 am on Sunday morning. Needless to say, we definitely took our Sunday naps! ;)
It was a blast and I can't wait to go back and visit again!
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Sounds like y'all had a really good trip. Enjoy it while you can, before you have babies!! I wish that we had taken more trips like that, before the babies came along.
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