Mom came to visit

We started our site-seeing by visiting Kirtland. The weather was fabulous, not too hot, not too cold and not too humid.

We learned about the Newell K. Whitney family and their store through a video and then at the store. The sister missionaries shared little stories about the family and area of Kirtland at the time that Joseph Smith came to live there.

We listened to testimonies in the room that was used as the School of the Prophets and felt the Spirit. We enjoyed talking to the other members of the tour and learning more about church history.

In this cradle is a baby's bottle. Things have changed since the 1800's haven't they...and for the better!

Here's Mom checking out the oven where up to 18 loaves of bread were cooked daily. It seems small from the front but the oven went further back into the chimney. It was really cook. The women would put their arms into the oven for a certain numbers of seconds and that way they could tell if the oven was ready to cook or if is was too hot or cold.