The Mormon Miracle

So one lovely weekend, I went with some friends to Manti, Utah for the Manti Mormon Pageant. I haven't been to Manti in a very very long time, and this was guaranteed to be a good time! We partied in the car, blasting and singing along to music, helping Amanda memorize the states and their capitals for teaching her 5th grade class, and yelling at cows out our windows. Seriously the most fun car gave I've ever played....  We pull into town and see this beautiful temple

I had never before been to any type of pageant like this, so it was exciting. We wandered the town before it started and enjoyed the lovely smells of carnival food. That pageant was really good, though it may have been a little cheesy....it was so powerful to see this history of the Book of Mormon and what Joseph Smith and the pioneers went through for what they believed in.  I am so grateful for the work of Joseph Smith and the pioneers; were it not for their dedication in spreading the Gospel and facing adversity with faith, I would not be where I am in my life right now, and many things would be missing.  My faith and testimony of the Gospel is unshakable and I know it to be true.  How could someone like Joseph Smith go through all he went through just for something he made up or didn't fully believe in and know to be true? No human being would be able to withstand what he withstood unless it was real and true. I revere Joseph Smith and greatly honor him for what he did and his sacrifice to bring forth this Gospel in the Latter-days. I know this church to be true, and reading the Book of Mormon only confirms that knowledge.  If you have questions about what we believe, ask me a question, find your local missionaries or members, go to this website to see what we believe, or go here to see my personal profile as well as the stories of Mormons all around the world. 

Waiting for the pageant to start

Holding all of Bridget's stuff, with the beautiful temple behind. Oh, I promise Matt is just opening my bag! 

Bridget, Jared, Me, Matt, Michael, Amanda, Courtney, Bonnie, Levi

Wanna know a cool fact about that hill the temple is on? When Brigham Young dedicated that hill for the groundbreaking to build the temple, he confided in a friend that Moroni, the son of Mormon, had dedicated that same hill when he was on this earth as a place where a temple would one day be built.  Pretty awesome huh?? Just a neat little fact to add to your collection of neat little facts.