Friday night, we had a great lesson about quorums by Daniel Barnhurst and then just hung out with the boys talking and playing old Nintendo games. Saturday we went and shot rifles, handguns and shot guns in the morning. Here is a great video of Dylan being all Gangster with the handgun.
Later that day, we took a tour of the oldest operating LDS Church building. The contruction of the building was amazing. It is hard to believe what people did without the modern building tools we have now. It is a beautiful building.
The last thing we did was go to the Mountain Meadow. This was a little bit sobering. It is the location of a very sad story of some people traveling through the meadow on their way to California. They had been traveling all through Utah and the entire time, were pretty much being shunned and/or ignored by the people of Utah, due largely in part that the people of Utah, mostly Mormons had been driven out of their homes back East, abused, tortured and looked down on. As such, they were not receptive to people from the East and those travelers may have done their part to antagonize the Mormons. It is very unclear exactly how things got to be so bad, but the end result was nearly all of the people from Arkansas were killed, many by ambush from the Indians and Mormons both. It is a sad story but what we took from it was the need to not let situations escalate. Things like this could be avoided with cool heads and open hearts.
Anyway, the trip was great and I enjoyed the time with Dylan and the other boys and leaders. Here are some pictures.
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I love those pictures!!!
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