Stained glass?

 
The Quincy Ward has a stained glass window. You can't tell it from the outside (they put electric lights behind it). When they were a branch, they rented an old church building to meet in. The church building has this beautiful stained glass window. As the branch grew, they became a ward and the church began to talk about building them a building. The nieghborhood where the rented church was, became poorer and more dangerous. The ward members wanted to preserve the stained glass window by moving it into their new chapel. Salt Lake said "no - Wards don't have stained glass windows". quincy Ward said, "If we don't get our window, we won't move." It took a year of negotiations but the building was built and the window installed. It does not show on the outside for several reasons, one of which is that they don't want anyone to throw rocks and break it. It is really a beautiful piece of art and we enjoyed seeing it. The Quincy members are really proud of it.

Quincy, Illinois October 13

 
 
Our P-day group went on a tour of Quincy. We were led by a district temple worker, Brother Gentry. Brother Gentry was born and raised in Quincy and showed us places we would not have known about. We started at the John Wood Mansion and Museum. John Wood was an early governor of Illinois. The house has been beautifully restored and there are several interesting pieces of furniture. There is a desk that was used by John Quincy Adams before he went into politics. We can't help comparing the stuff we see with what is in Nauvoo. This house is well done - as well as Nauvoo. The group beginning in the back: Wayne and me, Susan and Lynn Cottrell, down one step, Bill and Margo Schultz, down one step, Burt and Chris Wasson, bottom: Blaine and Justine Seamons and Sandy and Wynn Farnsworth.

Lauren and Eric

 
 
 
Here are pictures of Lauren's kitchen and the living room and the great Mexican restaurant where we had lunch. We had a wonderful time in Des Moines and have proved that we can do it in one day!

Des Moines, Iowa

 
Lauren and Eric's house - look at the trees. It has a new paint job. They hired a painter to turn their obnoxious blue house into this beautiful home.

Dickson Mounds

 
This is how the indians layed out their villages. The temple was in the center.

 
 
We are enjoying the birds. These are Canada geese which are migrating south. They stop here to feed and then go on. Some of them stay year round, but most just stop over. The heron is always on the river fishing. We have named him Herman.

Dickson Mounds continued

 
Here is evidence of human sacrifice.