Kirtland, Ohio

On Sunday Joseph and I and a couple other guys drove to Kirtland to see all the church history. I Loved it there. I learned so much stuff about the people in Kirtland that I did not know.

Here is the store that N.K. Whitney owned. I guess he was very prosperous. He was very wealthy back in those times.

He knew a lot of people and so he was able to trade with people out of the United States. He also traded with the Indians. He was known for his store and his fair prices:)

Whitney was the 2nd bishop called in Kirtland and he is the one that came up with the Bishops store house. (see above)

Whitney let Emma and Joseph stay in the upstairs of the store. Here is where the Word of Wisdom took place.

In this little room 25 men would meet for the church. After the Word of Wisdom was announced, Joseph said that if they followed this commandment they would have a witness to know it was true. A couple weeks of months later The Lord and Christ appeared to the men in this room.

This is the Whitney home. The missionaries said that you could tell back then that the Whitney's had money because the color yellow was very expensive and had to be imported to the states.

This is the room where the Whitneys were told to prepare, for the Word was coming. A couple weeks later the missionaries from New York came!!

This was the nicest room in the house. This is were they held the first couple of sacrament meetings when the church was getting started.

The group

This is the mill that Whitney had invented. You would put ashes in these holders, then water would be pourn over the ashes and filter through to the barrels. This would make alkaline water.

Next they would take the alkaline water and but it in these ht bowls for 14 hours and it would make hard rock like substance.

Then it would be placed in ovens like these and they would turn white. After that they were used for gun powder and stuff like that. Whitney could sell a couple of those rocks for $200. He was a very smart and creative man.

Then he created this wheel for energy. It would pull water underneath the wheel and generate........

This saw to cut wood:) This saw was use to build the temple. In the 3 to 4 years it took to build the temple not one person was killed in the mill or cutting wood. Usually they had many deaths in the mill alone from explosions.

It was really cool to see the Temple they built but it was weird to learn that the Community of Christ now owns the temple.

It was still cool to see how much work and effort went into this Temple.

*The spirit is so strong at all of these church sites. I am so blessed I have had the opportunity to see so many of them.*