This trip really touched me. I have a greater appreciation for the people of the past and the the hardships and heartaches they had. They are so different than ours and yet we can still see similarities.
We had a devotional on the docks by a statue that was a present from the Church to the city of Liverpool. Two of our professors spoke about different people that had left from those docks.
I read one of the poems that John Lyon wrote when leaving America on the same docks that he left from. (John Lyon is my great-great-great-grandfather...maybe more) At the closing of the devotional we sang Come, Come Ye Saints. Everyone can sing so well. We had almost three part harmony going. It sounded so beautiful. It was a really uplifting experience to sing. It strengthened my testimony.
Afterward we went to the Merseyside Maritime Museum. It was a really neat museum but a lot smaller than I thought it would be. Over nine million people left from these docks.
Then we went to the Beatles shop. I didn’t go to the Beatles museum.
We loaded up the bus and drove to the Preston Temple. As with many temples the Preston temple is not in Preston but in Chorley. The grounds were absolutely breath taking. I enjoyed just walking around and feeling the spirit while I was there. Something funny actually happened. A guy that was in my freshman year ward at BYU was there serving his mission. It was nice to talk to him. It actually broke the ice for most of the girls and we were able to chat with the missionaries.
Then off to Preston we went. After arriving in Liverpool the first missionaries in England headed to Preston where Elder Fielding had a relative. We saw where the first chapel they preached in would have been. We also went to where the missionaries lived when they arrived in Preston. Our last stop was down to the River Ribble where the first nine members of the Church in England were baptized. The river was moving swiftly.
We had a devotional on the docks by a statue that was a present from the Church to the city of Liverpool. Two of our professors spoke about different people that had left from those docks.
I read one of the poems that John Lyon wrote when leaving America on the same docks that he left from. (John Lyon is my great-great-great-grandfather...maybe more) At the closing of the devotional we sang Come, Come Ye Saints. Everyone can sing so well. We had almost three part harmony going. It sounded so beautiful. It was a really uplifting experience to sing. It strengthened my testimony.
Afterward we went to the Merseyside Maritime Museum. It was a really neat museum but a lot smaller than I thought it would be. Over nine million people left from these docks.
Then we went to the Beatles shop. I didn’t go to the Beatles museum.
We loaded up the bus and drove to the Preston Temple. As with many temples the Preston temple is not in Preston but in Chorley. The grounds were absolutely breath taking. I enjoyed just walking around and feeling the spirit while I was there. Something funny actually happened. A guy that was in my freshman year ward at BYU was there serving his mission. It was nice to talk to him. It actually broke the ice for most of the girls and we were able to chat with the missionaries.
Then off to Preston we went. After arriving in Liverpool the first missionaries in England headed to Preston where Elder Fielding had a relative. We saw where the first chapel they preached in would have been. We also went to where the missionaries lived when they arrived in Preston. Our last stop was down to the River Ribble where the first nine members of the Church in England were baptized. The river was moving swiftly.
2 comments:
Did you have the idea to read that poem or did they give it to you? Hurrah for family history!
I Love that they have aeas in the park by the river that talk about the missionary's!
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