Here are all the girls after the temple- we had to wait for the boys to finish up. Then we walked to the near-by church to change clothes and eat a snack.
This one of the girls blow drying her hair at the pavilion. :) Girls!
After changing into our matching T-shirts we all drove down to the John Rowe Moyle museum in Alpine where we heard a little presentation and toured around. He was the stone mason who came from England, crossed the plains with a handcart, built a farm in Alpine and then was called to work on the Salt Lake temple. Every week for more than 20 years, he would get up at 2:00 on Monday morning and walk the 22 miles over the mountain to the Salt Lake temple to work, stay with his son who lived there for the week, and then walk back Friday night to work his farm on Saturday and be with the rest of his family on Sunday. One day, he was milking the cow who got mad and kicked his leg. He ended up with it amputated but as soon as he could, he carved a wooden leg with a moving ankle and foot and learned how to walk on it. Soon after, he was back to walking across the mountain again to work on the temple. At the age of 76 (I think) he climbed up the scaffolding to carve "Holiness to the Lord" on the temple wall. He was a man who acted, and was not acted upon. So our theme for the conference was "Choose to Act."
This is our group listening to the presentation on John Rowe Moyle inside the little museum that once was his house.
This is Hannah showing her ring she got for finding all the cows in the museum. :) and the fort the Moyles built as defense against the Indians.
Kaitlynn sitting in the out house. :) It even has a moon carved on the door!
After the museum tour, the kids headed off on their own walk- though, instead of having them walk over the mountain to Salt Lake, we had them walk back the six miles to the Timpanogos temple. Along the way, we had two little stops, the first to talk about 2 Nephi 2:26 that says you are free to choose to act and not to be acted upon, which Zach talked about and then I showed them how to put vinyl stickers on tiles (it was easier than carving words in stone) that said "Choose to Act." Once they made it to the temple, we had a delicious lunch (Zach and I were in charge of the food) and then packed in to the cars to drive over to Camp Williams where we stayed in the General House with a private pool, big patio, grills, five bedrooms... It was lovely! Of course the kids jumped in the pool:
Boys doing handstands
This is Raquel doing a dive- she actually had to leave early to compete in a state competition for swimming!
This is the Who-do. A french braid up the back with a fluffy bun on top... All the girls were doing it! After swimming and dinner, we had a fireside with Bro. Suooa, a seminary teacher from Orem. He was great and talked about choosing to be happy and choosing to never give up. Then we played some night games- Ultimate, capture the flag, and a ball game I don't know the name of... Afterwards (yes, it it now 10:30) the kids jumped in the pool again and swam in the dark. They are some great kids who seem to get along well- none of them really hang out together at school but at church they are good friends. I think that is commendable! They had the whole group in the pool doing synchronized swimming routines...:)
The smallest kid wearing Bro. Webbs swim trunks because he forgot his...
The next day we got up for breakfast, did a little coloring for a service project, and then went to the Oquirrh Mountain temple open house. We had to wait in line for a LONG time because it was the last day of the open house but it was worth it for the kids to get to see it. In all, it was a great conference, we got to know the kids better, learned about a great man, saw lots of cool stuff, and had fun! I hope the kids remember it fondly! Oh, and thanks to Kristi who took care of my boys while we were gone... Hyrum and Weston had a sleep over at Kristi's house and had the time of their lives!
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