Grandin Publishing Building, the Hill Cumorah and the Pageant

We started out at the Grandin Publishing Building where the Book of Mormon was printed. We were able to take a tour and find out more about how it was just a miracle that the Book of Mormon was able to be published so near the farm of Joseph Smith.

 We then drove to the Hill Cumorah to look around and go to the visitors center.  Ethan has a theory that the Lord inspired men to place the marker over the spot where the plates were so no one would find it.  Good theory.

 We then walked to the visitors center to watch a movie about the restoration and see the Christus.  It was fun to see the kid's faces.

We went to the lake house for dinner and the kids got to play in the water for a little while.  Ethan loves to kayak so it was fun for him to be able to do that.

Ethan was playing with some lake weed that looked pretty gross and Julie told him she would give him $5 if he would eat it.  So he ate it!  Soon after all the little kids were eating lake week from the shore so they could get $5 too.  She ended up taking them another day to get ice cream instead of handing out $5.  It think they got a good deal out of eating that gross stuff!!

Then we got ready and went to the pageant.  I thought it was fun and they did a great job.  I was really disappointed/disgusted with the hecklers but it gave us a great chance to talk to the kids about loving people who hate us and being persecuted for what you believe.  Still, I would have loved to been there without them swearing at us.

 He really isn't choking her, although it looks like it.