Volume XII, issue vii, July 2016 (Family Church History Tour)

Best Quotable Quotes from our Hafen Family Church History Tour

Charlie: I HATE the bus!
Charlie: I want to get back on the bus!
Eric (before my Mom stopped at a store in Springfield, IL): They can't keep me on the bus!

Charlie to Kate at Independence Visitors Center after they had been riding together in a miniature pioneer wagon. He grabbed her hand and said, "C'mon Sweetie!" and they ran off together.

Charlie after we stayed with Eric's sister Noelle and her family, including Charlie's favorite cousin, Matthew: "I want to get Matthew a present because he let me use he's home."

Thursday, 7/21

·      Marie’s Baptism in Connecticut at New Haven Chapel

·      Dinner with d’Evegnée and Devine Family

Friday 7/22

·      New York City

·      Manhattan Temple and Discussion with Richard Bushman

Saturday 7/23 (6 Hours on Bus)

·      Board bus in NJ and Meet Steve our Bus Driver                 

·      Flat Tire

·      Hill Cumorah Visitors Center

·      Chinese Food Take-out in the Visitors Center Basement

·      Palmyra Temple (Drove by)

·      Grandin Building (where Book of Mormon first printed)

 Sunday, July 24 (4 Hours on Bus)

·      Family Testimony Meeting in the Sacred Grove (Joseph Smith’s First Vision in 4 different languages; Mark and Amy’s kids singing “Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning.”)

·      Smith Farm and Two Houses

·      Whitmer Farm

·      Joseph Knight home in Colesville/Ninevah,

·      Picked up Pizza at tiny pizzeria for 60 people and ate pizza en route

.    Harmony Priesthood Restoration site at Susquehannah River 

Monday, 7/25 (7 Hours on Bus)

• ·     Orientation film at Historic Kirtland Village
• ·      Childhood home of Lorenzo and Eliza Snow
• ·      Johnson Home in Hiram
• ·      Amish Dinner at Joe and Sarah Miller’s home
• ·      Hyrum Smith Home, Kirtland, where Lydia & Newell Knight were married.
• ·      Community of Christ Hymn Festival in Kirtland Temple

Tuesday 7/26 (6.5 Hours on Bus)

• ·      Tour Kirtland Temple
• ·      Tour of Historic Kirtland Village including Whitney Store and Home
• ·      Isaac Morley Farm (Site of several revelations, beginning of law of consecration. Joseph and Emma lost twins, adopted John Murdock’s twins)

 Wednesday 7/27 (6.5 Hours on Bus)

• ·      Lincoln Museum in Springfield Illinois
• ·      Tour Carthage Jail
• ·      Subway Sandwiches picked up for dinner
• ·      Nauvoo British Pageant
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• Thursday 7/28 (30 Minutes)
• ·      Nauvoo Temple Baptisms for the Dead
• ·      Old Nauvoo
• ·      Seventies Hall (Special performance for our family by “core cast” from Pageant actors on missionary work and testimony from Grandpa Hafen about being a Seventy.)
• ·      Sculpture Garden (Monument to women and Relief Society, with performance by “core cast.”)
• ·      Trail of Hope
• ·      Nauvoo Hotel Special Buffet
• ·      Pioneer Pastimes—children’s games, demos of blacksmith, brickmakers
• ·      Nauvoo Pageant

Friday 7/29 (6.5 Hours on Bus)

• ·      Special Tour of Nauvoo Temple for Adults
• ·      Old Nauvoo Cemetery
• ·      Community of Christ sites (JS home + Joseph, Hyrum, Emma’s graves)
• ·      Adam-ondi-Ahman and Temple Hill with discussion with Far West Missouri Stake Patriarch
• ·      Dinner catered by Smokehouse BBQ at Hotel
• ·      Liberty Jail Tour

Saturday 7/30 (4 Hours on Bus)

• ·      Community of Christ Temple/Auditorium
• ·      Independence LDS Visitors Center                                                                                        
• ·      Temple lot and walking tour, across street                                                                                      
• ·      Far West: temple site. Church HQ just before going to Nauvoo.                                          
• ·      Dinner with Adults (Pizza for Kids in Hotel Rooms)

TOTAL HOURS ON BUS: 41 (not counting waiting time and break-downs)