The Provo Dunford Grandkids on Temple Square

 Rob organized a wonderful visit for the Provo grandkids - Duncan, Caroline, Grace, and Clay - to come spend a day with us.  The kids took TRAX in from Provo, and Rob met them at the downtown station. He showed them a whole group of photos for their phones which included small shots of different places around the Temple Square campus.

Then they went up to the top of the COB to see the interpreter booths, etc.  

Grace, trying the booth out as an interpreter

 I was able to join them for lunch in the cafeteria there.  They loved being able to pick out whatever food they wanted. Then we began more of our exploration of the Temple Square campus.

First, a photo at the famous spot in the Plaza with the temple behind. I then took them around that block.  As we walked down State Street, they saw some things on their list from the Brigham Young Park there.

Next was a tour of the Beehive House.

Here we are in the JSMB in what used to be the coffee shop.  There are these ornate tiles of women and grapes around the top.

Here is the beautiful lobby.

With the imposing statue of Joseph Smith

Here is the chapel where we have Sunday meetings and Mission devotionals and conferences.

A view of the plaza showing them President Nelson's offices on the bottom left side of 

the Church Administration Building.

Here is my office.

The wall in the mission office showing all the missionaries in the mission.

A view from the 10th floor 

A beautiful view of the temple

Then we went to the theater there to see a Meet the Mormons video.

Then we walked through Temple Square, stopping at the South Visitors Center, passed the Assembly Hall and Tabernacle and on over to the Family History and the Discover Zone.

Us in front of the First Vision sculpture.

Clay and Duncan in the Tabernacle.

When we grew up, all the baptisms were done in the basement of 

the Tabernacle.  The kids thought that was so amazing.

Now to the Discovery Zone in the Family History Library.  This is a green screen.  

We don't have a copy of the actual photo with the background that the kids chose.

Such great grandchildren. 

Over 10,000 Dunfords in the United States

Sweden was one place.  

Who are we related to?

They "dressed" themselves in their ancestors' clothing.

I gave Clay some pointers.

We finished up checking out their family trees in Family Search.  

Caroline really enjoyed doing indexing.  

Our final stop was the Church History Museum.  Among other things, 

we saw the newest version of the First Vision in surround picture.

There were so many interesting displays.

  Then it was time to hustle Duncan and Caroline out to meet Heather for their family overnight.  We had dinner at Chick Fil A with Clay and Grace, and then drove them down to Provo to meet Bryan.

We had so much fun, and I think that the kids did as well, but we sure wore them out.  I put 14,000 steps on my Fitbit!