Interesting Day (Mike)

Yesterday was interesting. I had one family from California/Israel, who were traveling the west sightseeing. The grandparents and one son and his wife were from California, but most of the grandchildren and their parents were from Israel; making a total of twelve in the group. Most of them spoke English, but all spoke Hebrew. They were very interested in the fort and what I told them of the LDS Church. I told them from the beginning that I was going to teach them LDS beliefs as we took the tour, and they liked that. They had quite a few questions about the Hinckleys as they lived at the fort, and about our LDS beliefs; families, priesthood, temples, etc. At the end, I was able to give them our packet of information about Joseph Smith, the family, LDS websites, etc., but they weren’t interested in the Book of Mormon, especially when I told them that it contained the account of Christ appearing to the people here in the new world, and that it was a second witness for Christ.

Following our shift, we traveled back out to the old mining town of Frisco where my grandmother was born. This time we were able to get closer to the mine, and the main part of the old town. We were able to visit the cemetery, which we had wanted to do. Most of the graves were of children who had died during the influenza outbreak, or had died because of the inadequate diet of the mother/child. We also went to the library and did a little research on the old town and had dinner at a little diner there in Milford. It was a fun outing, with lots of good photo ops.