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Mormon Heritage Association - An Experience You Will Treasure
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It all began unintentionally, in early 1997. Clinton Day, a High Councilman in the Salt Lake Big Cottonwood Stake (with a love for the history of the L.D.S. Church) suggested that an appropriate sesquicentennial activity for the Stake Presidency and High Council would be to hold a High Council meeting in Nauvoo. After initial chuckles, and then some consideration, Clinton was assigned to make arrangements. Arrangements were made for facilities in Nauvoo for the meeting and a tour of the sites was planned and directed for those stake officers and their wives (who for the most part were also church officers). Interested friends and relatives were invited along to fill up the bus.
Because all of the tour members were strong church members with years of service, including preaching and teaching, Brother Day thought it foolish to give all of the history parts himself. He, therefore, assigned most of them to tour members, giving only the location and subject to be researched and taught. In addition, scripts were written representing key historical figures, to be given in first-person by selected tour members. Some of these include: Emma Smith and Mary Fielding at Far West, Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer at their graves in Richmond, and Mary Ann Young and Wilford Woodruff at the Mississippi in Nauvoo. In order to maintain the proper spirit on the bus, each day started and ended with a hymn and prayer. Oh, and that High Council meeting was held in the upper room of Joseph Smith's Red Brick Store. In it, two high councilmen were called and sustained to be bishops!
The results of this tour exceeded anything we could have ever dreamed. It was not a tour. It was an experience that changed lives!
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