Aug 4-7, 2011
(Bus Tour Aug 1-10)
Dear Cousins,
This August we have a once in a lifetime opportunity—a Smith family celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Kirtland Tem-ple Dedication and the 175th Anniversary of the First Smith Family Reunion.
We will experience an abbreviated reenact-ment of the Temple Dedication within the Temple walls and hear from Karl Anderson, who “has gained fame as ‘Mr. Kirtland’ from his devotion and love for the Kirtland area and by his tireless efforts to restore it.” We will listen to a family choir singing historic music from the four corners of the temple.
We will feel the star bit drill pound in our hands as we carve stone in the temple quarry, the way our stone cutter fathers did and breathe in that dust–their dust; run our hands along their sweat-stained rubble stone walls; and see the monumental task of erecting that great edifice to the Lord, and learn what it meant to give your all.
We will recognize our ancestors’ sacrifices by providing service at a girl’s camp near the John Johnson Home that will bear the names of Lucy Mack Smith and Emma among the campsites. This August, our children can feel the fire of the spirit that gave our pioneer an-cestors the strength to do great things. This is one reunion not to be missed.
For more information or to register, go to: www.josephsmithsr.org/@f0q=node/75.
We can’t wait to see you!
Steve & Frances Orton
Co-Presidents
Joseph Smith Sr. & Lucy Mack Smith
Family Reunion
Phone: 801-226-6054
Mobile: 801-310-8686
Email: f.orton@digis.net