Salt Lake City Cemetery

Today we are in Salt Lake City visiting with Sarah, Tyler, Simon, Ellen, Charlotte and animals Licorice (outdoor cat), Alice (dog), Tuesday (indoor cat) and Chilly (fish).

Tuesday, Drinking from Chilly's Fish Home

Sarah took us, excluding the animals, to the Salt Lake City Cemetery to explore and look at the graves. There are many prominent Mormon pioneers buried there, as well as Tyler's mother who died a few years ago. Most of the past Church presidents lie there, and as we looked around we noticed many familiar surnames affiliated with the Church. We saw graves of Joseph Fielding Smith who was the President of the Church when David and I joined the Church on June 8, 1972, Wilford Woodruff, David O. McKay, Widtsoes, Cannons, Heber J. Grant and many more. We visited the grave of Tyler's mother, Jo Ellen Braesher Williams. And we saw interesting epitaphs and headstones from pioneer times, and from modern times. It's a huge cemetery, with lots of history and legends. Not having lived near the headquarters of the Church, it was interesting to see the evidence of people I had read about in Church history. Many of the graves of the early pioneers also included graves of their multiple wives.

When we returned to Sarah and Tyler's house, Sarah made homemade pizza for us. Yum. We watched a couple of movies and relaxed and laughed. Nice day.

Charlotte has probably changed the most of the three kids since we have seen them last. She's a tweener, and I'm pretty sure she's going to skip the awkward phase and go right into the graceful, beautiful phase. Her voice is different since I saw her last, more grown up and mature.

Sarah, Simon, David, Charlotte, Adam and Ellen