DAY 17

Thursday

Early start as Anna's dad made a full on breakfast! Yip we had pancakes, eggs, bacon, beef patties, potatoes and grip ketchup and milk. My friends I love breakfast. It is my favorite meal of the day! I love it because it tastes so good! And to have it made by The Bistline family I love you guys!!

The best start to our day. We were heading to St George as it was my last temple to see in Utah and Anna's grand mother had passed away so her viewing was in St George.

On the way to St George there is a town called Colorado city. This is a place where polygamists live. They are a break off of the LDS church and are now known as the fundamentalist Lds. They still practice polygamy which involves havng more then one wife. It is illegal but the other wives except the first are not classified as married but are single mothers with 12 children. Interesting hey.

They dress in old styled clothing and some refrain from using the Internet and have strict rules about contact with the outside world.

The LDS church of which I am a member stopped polygamy a long time ago by official commandment from God. But many continue the practice today and are not part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However they are living what they know.
For more information on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints look at www.lds.org and more information about plural marriage can be found.

So we went to the temple which was beautiful and the St George area was built on a swamp. It took 7 years or something like that to get the foundations solid enough to build the temple on it. They had taken lava rock form the hills and pounded it in that ground with a cannon. The ones you shoot cannon balls out of in pirate movies. The Prophet Brigham Young said that the foundations will be finished when the cannon bounces on the surface 3 times. And sure enough it did bounce 3 times and that's when they could start building the temple. 

Check it ous on www.lds.org and see the St George temple and all the other temples I have visited! Beautiful!

So after our wonderful time in the temple we head to luck at the infamous Cafe Rio ah delicious! For dessert we head next door to the frozen custard p lae and ahhh yummy!! I had chocolae almond one that was just heavenly and huge. Like a Sara lee tub size for $4 something. Amazing but late it melted in the car...

Finished at the frozen custard place we head to Annas grandmothers funeral. It was the first time i had ever seen a dead body in person and well they look plastic. No disrespect but they do. They don't look alive. It wasn't weird but I found out the Japanese do the same and have viewings. I don't want an open cascket funeral. I want it closed.

But it was an experience. I had said to people I was going to America for 2 weddings and a funeral. Me hoping the funeral Was a dead animal not so much a dead person but however I got to see one. She looked like a happy lady who loved life. Her family members spoke highly of her. My condolences to the Bistline family for their loss.

So it was a sad trip home but we got to go and see Zion national park which was more rock and some ancient cave drawing of the native Americans. That was cool. The rocks out those ways are really pores so your like walking on sand paper so your walking on a slanted rock but you don't slip or slide. PRetty neat experience. More rock photos taken too!

Home was a happy sight and the bed an even more exciting one. It had been a long day and a long few days now it was in deed time for bed.

Remember to do do something crazy with your life!