Today we went to Tintern Abbey. These ruins are famous because William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote poems while looking at this Abbey. The abbey was ransacked after the dissolution of the Church by King Henry VIII.
It was a really nice fall day. The fog was hanging over the mountains. It was too cold but not too warm. I walked around a lot the ruins by myself. It was really nice to be a loe for a little while. Then we met as a big group and took group photo with everyone. After this I went and read Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey poem to Ashley and Dasily. While we were reading the poem we heard singing. Some girls started singing so we all stood in a circle singing hymns where people worship the Lord hundreds of years ago in the same place. It was really uplifting.
We stopped for a quick lunch in Ledbury. Lindsay, Rebecca, and I got fish and chips at this little side shop. The guy in the shop was really nice because I was carrying a sheep stuff animal. I bought in a little charity shop for a girl in our program who loves sheep. Actually she doesn’t really love sheep but the first day trip we went on everyone on the bus was pretty much asleep and she saw some sheep and woke everyone up. So I bought Meghan a sheep and named him Finnegan
We then went to Benbow Farm. This is a farm that Wilford Woodruff was impressed to go to while on his mission. Members of the church call it the Benbow Farm but it really is the Hill Farm. It is currently owned privately and operating but they allow people to go on the land. John and Jane were baptized a few days after Wilford Woodruff arrived they were members of a Methodist church that had broken off from the original church. All 600 members except one were eventually baptized. As a side note I realized on the plaque’s spelled baptized with an s not a z. It is really crazy that that many people were baptized when you see the landscape there because there is nothing there but these farms that are very far apart. There was also a pond on the Farm where many of the baptisms took place
Then we headed to Malvern Hills. This was pretty intense hike but well it was worth it. The view was beautiful. You could see all the fields from the top of the hill. Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, and William Richards all hiked here. They decided to print the Book of Mormon and a new hymnal in England on top.
We later sand We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet. Just as we started to sing the sun burst forth from the sunlight. As we sang the lines “bask in his life giving light” the sun got a lot brighter it was really exciting.
As we descended the steep hill we pretended like we were skiing and started making cool sound affects.
Gadfield Elm chapel was next. This is the oldest Mormon Chapel in the world still standing. To get in the chapel after hours there is a list of questions you have to answer like how older are you when you get baptized, how many chapters are there in the book of Enos, what is Brigham’s last name. It was really fun to do. The building has been dedicated twice. It is not owned by the church but by a trust fund that restored the place but it was dedicated by Jeffery R. Holland and later by President Hinckley. Its quite small but really interesting. The guide read us some entries from Woodruff’s journal that brought the one roomed church a live.
Then we had a three hour treck home. Everyone in the center is wondering who will be the next president. We won’t find out tell tomorrow morning. Good luck finding out.
It was a really nice fall day. The fog was hanging over the mountains. It was too cold but not too warm. I walked around a lot the ruins by myself. It was really nice to be a loe for a little while. Then we met as a big group and took group photo with everyone. After this I went and read Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey poem to Ashley and Dasily. While we were reading the poem we heard singing. Some girls started singing so we all stood in a circle singing hymns where people worship the Lord hundreds of years ago in the same place. It was really uplifting.
We stopped for a quick lunch in Ledbury. Lindsay, Rebecca, and I got fish and chips at this little side shop. The guy in the shop was really nice because I was carrying a sheep stuff animal. I bought in a little charity shop for a girl in our program who loves sheep. Actually she doesn’t really love sheep but the first day trip we went on everyone on the bus was pretty much asleep and she saw some sheep and woke everyone up. So I bought Meghan a sheep and named him Finnegan
We then went to Benbow Farm. This is a farm that Wilford Woodruff was impressed to go to while on his mission. Members of the church call it the Benbow Farm but it really is the Hill Farm. It is currently owned privately and operating but they allow people to go on the land. John and Jane were baptized a few days after Wilford Woodruff arrived they were members of a Methodist church that had broken off from the original church. All 600 members except one were eventually baptized. As a side note I realized on the plaque’s spelled baptized with an s not a z. It is really crazy that that many people were baptized when you see the landscape there because there is nothing there but these farms that are very far apart. There was also a pond on the Farm where many of the baptisms took place
Then we headed to Malvern Hills. This was pretty intense hike but well it was worth it. The view was beautiful. You could see all the fields from the top of the hill. Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, and William Richards all hiked here. They decided to print the Book of Mormon and a new hymnal in England on top.
We later sand We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet. Just as we started to sing the sun burst forth from the sunlight. As we sang the lines “bask in his life giving light” the sun got a lot brighter it was really exciting.
As we descended the steep hill we pretended like we were skiing and started making cool sound affects.
Gadfield Elm chapel was next. This is the oldest Mormon Chapel in the world still standing. To get in the chapel after hours there is a list of questions you have to answer like how older are you when you get baptized, how many chapters are there in the book of Enos, what is Brigham’s last name. It was really fun to do. The building has been dedicated twice. It is not owned by the church but by a trust fund that restored the place but it was dedicated by Jeffery R. Holland and later by President Hinckley. Its quite small but really interesting. The guide read us some entries from Woodruff’s journal that brought the one roomed church a live.
Then we had a three hour treck home. Everyone in the center is wondering who will be the next president. We won’t find out tell tomorrow morning. Good luck finding out.
2 comments:
Tintern Abby is so beautiful I am glad you went! I have only been to a couple of the church sites, seems like it would be really neat!
I'm so glad you can feel the spirit and visit some church history while you are there. Yeah it is Obama I'm sure you've heard. Heaven help us! But on a brighter note marriage amendments passed in CA, FL, and AZ to protect marriage as between a man and a woman.
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