Yesterday my church had a trip to historic Kirtland. I’ve never been and it was so cool! We walked where the Profet Joseph walked. I touched the very doorknob he touched when he first arrived into Kirtland. I saw the room he slept in, the room he hq’ed the church in, the room he taught in. The very rooms where he received revelations from the Lord. It was so awesome. You could just see the rooms shine from having been graced with the presence of the Savior and Heavenly Father. I saw the creek they held baptisms in and all sorts of things. I also saw the Kirtland Temple. Toured it. Wow. That was awesome as well. Wow… I wish that we owned it still. So sad that the reorganized (or whatever they wish to call themselves these days) church owns it. At least they give free tours. But you could just see how the tour guide was missing something. She just didn’t have the fullness of the gospel in her life. Sad. She was so close, so very close and yet missing so very much. And it isn’t her fault, she probably grew up that way. Not understanding because there was no one to teach her. But she was very friendly and perky and I enjoyed being in the Temple. I did get a hair of vertigo. It has 14 foot ceileings on the first floor AND the second floor! So by the time you get to the third floor to the classroom type rooms up there… wow were you high up! You pant when you get to the top and you have vertigo as you go down the spiraling stairs to the bottom!
The Whitney store is still there as well. (This was where the Prophet Joseph came and entered the store and told the owners they prayed him there and they offered to let him live above the store. He HQ’ed the church there and he held the school of the prophets there. So awesome. The Church has rebuilt the Whitney home and the Inn and the ashery and mill. They have created a historical park there. They did archealogical digs so that they could build these buildings on the actual spot they once stood. Awesome!
Our trip was all day and I was exhausted when I got home but I had such a good time! Wow. I sat in Church today and it was so amazing to think that just yesterday I walked where the first Saints walked.
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kayeita said:
Just curious, what faith are you? I don’t know if this is too personal of a question or not, myself, I do not follow any organized religion.
(My guess would be Mormon, the Prophet Joseph being Joseph Smith? I could be completely wrong though, please correct me if I am. =)
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loadhan said:
Glad you had fun!
And like Kay before me, I wasn’t sure either so I had to look the significance of Kirtland and Prophet Joseph, heh. And Kirtland … that’s near Cleveland, isn’t it? And you didn’t stop by to visit?! Heh, just kidding. 🙂
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Lady Ozma said:
I don’t mind 🙂
If I minded, I’d have never posted this entry. 🙂
I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints so you guessed right. 🙂 I really did enjoy my trip and it was so cool. I hope you enjoyed my entry, even if you aren’t LDS. Hopefully it made sense the feelings I had. 🙂
*HUGS* You can read some of the revelations given in the Kirtland area at the Church website http://www.lds.org just go read the Doctrine and Covenants. Each section tells you where the revelations were given at. Kirtland was really the first main town that members gathered in. The town grew rather fast as Saints flocked there. From Kirtland they moved to Nauvoo, Missouri. And then on to Utah. I’m very interested in local histories and that was a major part of Northern Ohio history. We have move all over the USA and I have enjoyed learning the local history every where we go. 🙂 So regardless of being LDS, I would have really enjoyed the trip historically anyway. 🙂
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kayeita said:
You just never know when you’re going to offend someone these days, so I always try to be careful when I ask someone about faith.
I went to university down in Lethbridge, Alberta, for a few years (its close to the Montana border), and nearby Lethbridge is a town called Cardston, which I guess has the biggest Temple in Canada, I guess its the Headquarters. I saw it from the outside, but I never was able to go inside the temple, but it did look really cool.
I was just curious about your faith because I find it inspiring to see people who have such awe and joy within the faith they choose to practice. Myself, I was born and raised Catholic, however I stopped practicing the faith when I was a young teenager. While I do not practice anything organized, I do still have faith in my life, just a more generalized sense of it. But no matter what faith people choose to practice, I always enjoy when I see/know people who can relish in the beauty that a religion can bring to them. =)
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Lady Ozma said:
I didn’t stop by but I thought of you as I passed the sign for the Cleveland turn off.
I was riding with a friend and her kids so I couldn’t really stop but I did think “Hey, over there is where loadhan is!” *HUGS*
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Lady Ozma said:
You are so right, and what a shame it is!
I’ve known quite a few people who get offended when you ask them about their faith. I just don’t understand that. Are you offended because you don’t want people to know what faith you are? Why wouldn’t you want people to know? Are you embarrassed by something? Are you not happy with something? I’d think if you were happy and proud of your faith you’d not mind people knowing.
There was probably a Stake Center or something near the Temple. Our congregations are wards and a group of wards is a stake. It is like a catholic dioceses if that helps you out. 🙂
Temples are very beautiful inside. I can’t describe the beauty to you. It is elegant. I guess that’s the best way to describe it!
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loadhan said:
Hey, I know. Just gave me an excuse to tease. I mean, at least you were with people on a planned and didn’t even get into Cleveland – my antisocial friend Autumn probably had to walk right past my dorm to her car and she didn’t stop by … So I think you win by far. 😉
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Lady Ozma said:
Well you should know that if I had been coming to the Cleveland area I’d have told you first so
we could hook up and at least get some hot chocolate or something. I’d never walk right by your dorm and ignore you! You’re too cool. *HUGS*
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loadhan said:
Heh, thanks for saying that. You’re cool too – I mean you like Buffy and Dr Who and RHPS; how could you not be? 😉 And see, you’re one of those rare social geeks unlike Autumn. I don’t know what happened … she might have just skipped class for all I know since she’d have to wait around campus for extra time. She’s kinda bad at that. She currently lives 90 minutes away from CWRU and doesn’t like to drive … I might just go crash their place this weekend anyway since I want to see Jeremy before he leaves for North Carolina soon. 🙂
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Lady Ozma said:
well what can I say…
you wore that way cool blue hair, you love the good ol’ doctor, totally got the buffy trivia going on… and we won’t even get into the fact you know all the callbacks for RHPS… how on earth could you be anything but the epitome of coolness? People should strive to be like you! Really… 🙂
Hey I am just a busy person. I am so diverse and eccentric. I swear I should be a millionaire with as eccentric as I am. 🙂
Sorry your friend lives so far away and just totally flaked or whatever. I’m a bit of a flake myself so… anyway.
Ugh, you have a friend going to NC? I hope he’s going to the western half of the state… it is cool there. The eastern half is kind of empty.
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loadhan said:
I’m a LJ addict. 🙂
Yeah, she’s flakey … I could tell you so many stories … we’ve gone through stages where we’ve hated each other and refused to ever speak again … followed by such stages where she surprises me with tickets to see my favorite singer on my birthday! and I pay for her bachlerette party at Pennsic. 🙂
Yeah, both Jeremy and Autumn are going there. I forget where – I was going to get the address from them but she didn’t show last week. :p Last year he had been given an offer by the public school system in Canton. They paid for his teacher’s masters and were going to hire him … but due to Ohio’s budget cuts, they couldn’t afford to hire him (he still got the masters for free). So he had to look somewhere else and he and Autumn wanted something less cold than Ohio but less hot than Florida or the rest of the south and found a school in Texas. It’ll be sad to see them go so far away but they seem happy with the location. 🙂
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Lady Ozma said:
I think I’m rather a LJ addict myself
LJ is just too cool. 🙂
Isn’t it awful when friends move away or when you move away? I’ve done it enough and had it done enoug. Moving sucks. And what’s with all this budget crap. Now we have some new tax too? Come on. This state taxes more than any other. And they don’t hardly do squat. Where is all the money going??? Argh. I swear I’m about to go dump crates of tea in the frelling lake or ohio river or something. INSANE!
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loadhan said:
In the water …
Careful about dumping things into Ohio waterways. It’s not as bad today … but there was a time in the past when the Cuyahoga River (the one in Cleveland) caught on fire. Yes, the fire was burning on top of the surface of the water ’cause of all the things polluted into it. If you go check the device for our local SCA group – the Barony of the Cleftlands you’ll see it symbolizes the burning flames over the waves. 😉
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: In the water …
I just recently heard about this. I couldn’t believe it. How insane! And we thought the hudson was bad! ROFL!
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