Day 8 - Nauvoo

Today we spent all day seeing the sites that are owned and operated by the Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized LDS Church) which is the same church that owns the Kirtland Temple.  The sites they own that we saw today were:

• The Homestead, Mansion House, Red Brick Store, Nauvoo House, and the Smith Family Cemetery.  

The Homestead is where Joseph and Emma lived first in Nauvoo.
The Mansion House is where Joseph and Emma lived which gave them more space for their family and also room to accommodate guests who would come to town.
The Red Brick Store is important because in the upper room is where the first endowments were received  and where the Relief Society first met.
The Smith Family Cemetery is right along the Mississippi River and is where Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith are buried, as well as the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr., Emma, and Hyrum. 

Grave site of Joseph, Emma, and Hyrum.  It had just rained, that's why it looks funny.

The Mansion House

The Red Brick Store