SPECIAL SITES 7/11/2011

Today on July 11, Monday, we drove to a site near Gallatin, MO that is sacred to us as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  We spent several hours here, walking the grounds and visiting with the director.  What a special place to serve a mission!  Only 12 Senior Couple Missionaries serve here.

We walked out on a point where we could overlook the beautifully maintained Valley of Adam Ondi Ahman.  Powerful!!  Roy and Patty, let's go!!!

Just beautiful!  We spent quite some time reading and feeling while here.  Awesome!

Hiking the trails was great.  Only draw back... it was oh so hot!!!

From this rock, we are told sermons and prophecies were made.  It is called "The Preachers Rock".  It looks out on the fields below.

This is the grove that has been dedicated for a temple someday in the future. 

Then we drove to the site that once was a thriving community called Far West.  It is now just a park surrounded by farm land.  To read the history of this place and then to be there was a powerful testimony builder.

Across the road from the temple site, another church adds its comments to the events that took place here.

This is one of the 4 corner stones laid for the temple almost 200 years ago.  Amazing!  Touring these two special historical sites today brings reality to the history we have read for years.

We then drove to Lone Jack MO to a Coast to Coast Park to spend a couple nights and use as a base to tour Independence and Liberty MO.