After breakfast, we visited the Community of Christ Temple in Independence. It is shaped like a nautilus shell, but the kids thought it looked like Willy Wonka's factory.
We went inside and a nice older woman showed us a video and gave us a tour.
There was a lot of artwork, that focused on their main idea of spreading peace throughout the world. It is odd to see what things are the same and what things are different between our two religions.
There was a Young Men's group also on a tour and Lex thought this boy looked like Taz. She asked to take a picture with him. I bet it made his day!
Across the street is the LDS Visitor's Center.
Seth met an older woman, she's 11, and had a deep discussion about Harry Potter and pretended these weird sticks were wands.
And Dave and Cam played checkers.
Lex gave Seth a ride back to our hotel to get the van.
The missionaries suggested that we try some authentic Kansas City BBQ, so we went to Arthur Bryant's and waited in a crazy long line that went around the building. I loved the chicken, Dave loved the beef, and Seth loved the red cream soda.
We drove about 20 minutes to Liberty Jail.
We learned more about the Saints being persecuted in Far West and the incarceration of Joseph Smith and 4 others in this dungeon cell under false charges.
Seth was our photographer for this part of the day.
It took another hour to get to Far West. We saw where they had planned to build a temple before they were forced to leave. All that remains are four cornerstones.
Our last stop of the day was Adam-ondi-ahman.
The church has now planted corn in the field. We hiked down to the corn and got bit by mosquitoes
and we chased rabbits.
We had some problems with our tires on the way to the hotel, so we will get that fixed before taking off again.
Taz wants it on the record...he sees no resemblance! Looks like you're having a great time!
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