August 16 & 17, 2010 - BYU Education Week,
Mt. Timpanogos Temple, and shopping at LDS Stores
We
signed up for BYU Education Week. It's held on the Brigham Young
University Campus in Provo, UT every August. Most classes are on
various aspects of religion or are religion oriented. Each is
opened with prayer and taught by a BYU professor.
There are also classes on personal, home, and family improvement, history, finance, etc., each geared to help us learn something we may want to know.
There are also classes on personal, home, and family improvement, history, finance, etc., each geared to help us learn something we may want to know.
I had to take these two photos from the internet since I didn't take any pictures. Photos in classrooms are discouraged. We signed up for all week. Linda and I attended all day Monday. Parking was a nightmare. We had to walk for blocks to the 1st class. Seats weren't designed for adult "bottoms." We stayed in the same room for the 2nd class then try and find a place to eat that was open.
In the afternoon we had to walk for several more blocks to find those classes. I enjoyed most of the classes and especially enjoyed the last class which was on a certain time in LDS history, the time when our founder was assassinated by the Illinois State Militia while under the "protection" of the governor.
To be honest, I didn't enjoy all the classes but I would have still returned Tuesday. After all, we paid for the whole week and it wasn't small change. But I began to have health problems I won't go into. I needed a day to recover.
So we decided to skip classes Tuesday and sleep in. By Tuesday afternoon we felt much better and went to the Mt. Timpanogos LDS Temple in American Fork, about 15 miles north of Provo. The remaining photos are ours.
Mt. Timp as it's called locally is a beautiful and large temple built near the base of the mountain in the first photo on this web page. Notice angel Moroni on the temple spire. Most of our temples have this. He matches the angel mentioned in Rev. 14:6.
After we left there we went to several stores in Orem (5 miles north of Provo) that cater to LDS customers. The first was Emergency Essentials.
Mormons have emphasized personal and family preparedness for decades.
There are lots of stores out west that sell camping and preparedness gear. This is one of them. I first saw a display of water filters that help make drinking water safe. The fake rocks simulate drinking water from a mountain stream.
These are some of the various brands, sizes, types, and prices of devices that can be used to make safe drinking water. Many are so good you could drink from a mud puddle and not get sick. They clean up even microscopic organisms.
I saw this display of portable toilet supplies. Those blue things next to them are for washing clothes. You put your clothes, water, and detergent in a 5 gallon pail and plunge the blue thing up and down over them until your clothes are clean.
I'm sure you can tell these are MREs. Of course they're fresh and new, not several years old like the ones you get in military surplus stores.
Most of these boxes are filled with varying amounts of freeze dried food designed to keep from one person to a whole family alive for months.
These are similar to MREs. They're the same variety of food but they're made for consumer rather than military use. They come in more pleasing varieties.
I took a peek into the Distribution Center. We have several of these church owned stores throughout Utah and elsewhere.
Through the Distrubution Center we can buy most any type book or teaching aid we may need from Sunday School books to the Holy Scriptures.
After that I went into Deseret Book, a commercial book store that caters to LDS readers.
There are chairs where one can sit and browse the books.
I love the scripture reference books. Probably 30% or more of the 700 or so books I own are on religion. Many were purchased from Deseret Book.
In Deseret Book we can also get inspiring plaques.
There are also games families can play when they get together for family night.
Linda loves the inspirational prints available. We've bought a few of these. There are many depicting the Savior. I especially love those that show Him with little children.
