Our First Kirtland Ohio Family Trip
When we decided to not travel to Utah this summer, the East Coast became our Oyster. We had some many different options and really wanted to do something with our kids that would compensate for lack of being with cousins. As you know, there is no substitute for quality time with family that you love and miss dearly, but we tried to fill that hole in our hearts and we decided to take them to some Latter-Day Saint Church History sites that J, Talmage and Truman and I had never been to. I was getting pretty excited because I had visited places like Nauvoo , Sacred Grove and Cove Fort . And each place I visited I experienced the spirit of sacrifice and God's love. But I had never been to Kirtland , like Jack had. To prepare for it, I decided to use the Church's most recent series of Church History books; Saints. We started with volume one which covers early church history from 1815-1845. Even tho...