Day 18

What a great day! The sun was up at 5:30, which helped us wake up for something very special that we did. We went and did baptisms for the dead in the Nauvoo Temple. The temple president actually helped us with confirmations, though when we went in to do the baptisms, the guy there got confused and we did another batch of confirmations. It was Lucy's first time doing baptisms so we had her go first for baptisms and the first batch of confirmations. After that we grabbed the family and went to the Nauvoo Family Center where we tasted fresh bread (which was delicious) and got a rope. We then went to the Brickyard and got a brick, the guy there was really nice and apparently has his birthday the day before Brayden's. The story behind that is that he was guessing our ages, he didn't come close with mine so he was surprised when he found out I was 17. We next went to the Blacksmith's where we got a tiny horseshoe and Prairie Diamonds, I was finally able to replace the one I lost. We went to Carthage Jail and saw where the Prophet was shot. We drove on to Liberty Jail which was a cool place. You know the story where Joseph rebuked his jailers by saying that if they don't stop their evil sayings now either he or them will die right then? Yeah, that didn't happen there, that happened in Ray County. While we were there we saw our old friend Savannah Werber, who went there for her mission about a month ago. It was fun catching up with her, I haven't seen her since the Priest and Laurels activities where she sang with the Institute Choir. We sent a picture to her mom and she replied quickly. We ended today by going to Omaha, Nebraska at 1 in the morning.
See ya,
Hannah