Five Reasons To Smile

Allen is looking onto the spot where Joseph fell from the second story window when he was shot and killed. "Next to the well"


Joseph and Hyrum "In life they were not divided, in death they were not separated."

This July, we went to St. Louis, and drove up to Nauvoo. We stopped by Carthage Jail and saw where Joseph and Hyrum were martyred. It was such a spiritual experience. To recognize that the jailer saw after just one evening with the prophet and his followers, that they were not the criminals he had been told that they were, and felt such compasion on them, that he gave them his own bedroom to sleep in rather than the "dungeon cell" that they were assigned to stay in. There may always be bad people in the world, but there will also always be good and righteous people in the world also.