We got up, had breakfast at the hotel, and headed to Independence this morning. Sean and Kirk were getting a kick out of all the people in Kansas City that seemed to have no regard for crosswalks. We saw numerous people just crossing big huge busy intersections diagonally at just random times I guess hoping people would stop for them. It gave us all a good laugh. Kirk was driving and his instructions on his phone for how to get places was totally different from my parent's Garmin and Greg apparently was getting different directions than both of us as well. We were all turning different directions and all went different ways, but we all seemed to end up at the same place at the end.
We went to the visitors center in Independence and one of the Sister missionaries took us on the tour. We started downstairs and saw some of what the early Saints endured, being kicked out several times from several places. It was amazing what they endured. They had a set up of the printing shop where the first copies of the Book of Mormon were printed and an actual first edition there on display.
Upstairs, the kids spent a lot of time thumbing through the Books of Mormon in the display with the globe of the world. They were translated in many different languages. They found the Russian one and took it to my dad because we had told them that he had learned Russian when he was in the Air Force. He told them the difference in the alphabet and letters and then read to them a little bit. They were pretty impressed, as was I, that he could still remember how to read and speak Russian.
We saw the building of The Church of Christ built across the street from our church's visitors center. Sean thinks it looks like an upside down screw. We saw the site that was dedicated for a temple by Joseph Smith and went to the Church of Christ Visitors center, but it smelled musty and old and no one was there to tell us anything or help us out, so after standing around for 15 minutes, we gave up and left.
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