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Make sure you read the next post because I just wrote it right before this one.  Due to technical difficulties, I lost a previous post, so I am trying to recreate an abbreviated portion of it.  While Janell’s mother Stephanie was here we made a brief church history tour.  We visited Nauvoo and Carthage.  It was a beautiful day, so we took the horse and buggy tour the church provides for free.  Apparently, the Asian lady bugs thought it was a great day too because they were flying about in swarms that day.  We could not walk more than a minute outside without having a few landing on us.  essentially they look like regular lady bugs, but are bigger, multicolored, and are massively more numerous.  The Nauvoo residents called them corn bugs and the Iowans call them Chinese lady beetles.  I looked it up.  The Iowans are right (not to mention handsomer, more sofisticated, and better at football).  They are particularly pesky since the tour guides told us they bite.    Anyway, they never bit us although one climbed down my shirt and a few got in Janell’s purse and flew out in the car.  Now back to the trip.  It is always a spiritual journey to visit Nauvoo.  One day we will take a more thorough tour, but this time we had to hurray to make it to Carthage before it closed.  That jail house was an exceptionally sacred place.  I was very surprised by how much they kept original, including the door with the bullet holes.  It was there that the prophet Joseph sealed his testimony with his blood.  I highly recommend visiting both places.  Enjoy the photos.