Conference Centre, Salt Lake City, Utah

Monday, 26 November 2007

It is big! It can seat more than 21,00 people! Hope I get the chance to attend the church conference one day!

Museum of Church History & Art, Salt Lake City, Utah

Monday, 26 November 2007

Having learnt the history of the church, this visit enhanced my understanding. How could one not believe after visiting this museum and seeing for themselves the actual writings and other materials related to the history of the restoration of the gospel? I would like to come back and visit this place again.

Oliver Cowdery's original transcript of the Book of Mormon.


The printing press that printed the first Book of Mormon.


Liberty Jail - the letter that Joseph Smith wrote.


Battle of Crooked River: Captain David Patten's rifle


Pioneers - Handcart


Painting of Lehi's Dream


Other Paintings


An Angel


Display of "Italy" nativity


The Pulpit

The Angel "Moroni'

A quilt showing the different prophets

The Birth of Christ, in a manger.

A Pioneer's Log House

This is the Place Heritage Park, Salt Lake City, Utah

Monday, 26 November 2007

The Monument commemorating the 100th anniversary of the the arrival of the first Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake valley. The Pioneers entered the valley on 24 July 1847.

Surrounded by mountains

Pioneers giving thanks to God

Statistics of the Handcart Companies who arrived at the Valley.

The Visitors' Centre

What a handcart looks like, in miniature size.

Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah

Sunday, 25 November 2007

I was looking forward to attending church meetings with Brother/Sister Jensen this day. What we experienced this morning, instead, was absolutely special, and worth the time spent.

We went to the Salt Lake Tabernacle to attend a live 30-minute broadcast of "Music & the Spoken Word" by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 9:30-10:00 am. I was actually seeing and listening to the choir live! I loved every second of it. The Tabernacle and the Choir were beautiful beyond words. I could sit there and listen to the music forever.

It was also a special broadcast for the Tabernacle Choir because it was the final time their organist, John Longhurst, was accompanying them. John had been their organist for the past 30 years.



Making this visit special for me, was the company of Brother/Sister Jensen, their daughter Julie and her son.


After the show, we walked across to the North Visitors' Centre, passing display of the nativity. First "The Shepherds who watched their flocks"


Then "The Wisemen"


And the baby "Jesus" with his mother "Mary" and father "Joseph"


We were thinking whether to go to Sunday sacrament meeting at 11 am. Since most of us have not seen the film "Joseph Smith The Prophet of the Restoration" yet, we decided to stay and view the 69 minutes film depicting the life and legacy of the founding prophet. I am glad we watched the film because it had strengthened my testimony of Joseph Smith and the restored gospel.

Cove Fort Historic Site, Utah

Saturday, 24 November 2007

Cove Fort historic site is in Millard County, Utah. We were shown into the cabin of Ira Hinckley, an ancestor of President Gordon B. Hinckley.


According to http://www.covefort.com/, Cove Fort is the only fort built by the Latter-day Saints in the 1800's that still stands. Very interesting - the walls for the fort were made of volcanic rock and limestones.

Snow at Beaver, Utah

Saturday, 24 November 2007

Winter is not here yet, officially about 1 month to go. No other places on our way from St. George to Bountiful, Utah, showed any snow except here in Beaver. For the very first time in my life, I am really seeing snow! Looked exactly like the 'snow' in our freezer at home!


and holding it! The ones that had not hardened were soft!


Felt like I am inside a big freezer! There wasn't any snow when we passed the place, on our way home on Wed 28 November.

The Journey from Arizona to Utah

Friday, 23 November 2007

Wittmann, Maricopa County (Arizona): Visited Nadaburg School where Michael went when he was a little boy.

On the border between the state of Nevada and Arizona, 30 miles from Las Vegas (Nevada), was the Hoover Dam

Bighorn Sheep grazing

I think the mountains are beautiful.

Stake Relief Society Sisters Temple Day

Saturday, 17 November 2007

Thanks to Mike. If it was not for Mike's encouragement, I wouldn't have join this trip.

There were about 50 of us going on the bus. 6 of us were from the same ward, the rest are from the other wards in Yuma. The other Sisters went in their own private cars. I understood there were altogether more than 100 Sisters participating in today's Relief Society activity. .

My 2nd time to the Mesa Arizona temple. Being Saturday, there were a lot of people outside and inside the temple. These 2 couples were married today!

Except for the tiring 6 hrs bus ride of the day, I am glad I took the opportunity to visit the Lord's house and the opportunity to know other Sisters from the other wards.

and saw grapefruit tree for the very first time! There were a row of the trees in the temple ground! Reminded me of the mangoes in my Mum's garden