Our Amazing District!

                                                     This is our Awesome Don Carlos District

       We planned a neat meeting at the Willard Richards home.  Remember Willard Richards was an apostle and was with the Prophet in Carthage jail when he was martyred.  The amazing prophecy Joseph made to Willard was, Willard you will see bullets flying on both sides and your friends dying on your left and right, but you will not have a hole in your garment. (He made that prophecy about a year before the martyrdom) That is exactly what happened.  He was a big 300# man, and the room was very small, but he and John Taylor survived.  He without a hole in his garment (a little nick on his ear) and it was a miracle John Taylor survived.  He had 4 bullet wounds and survived to be our third Prophet.  The law of two witnesses came into play here.  If we didn't have their testimonies, we would only have the mobs account of what transpired in Carthage.  Joseph sent all of the other apostles on missions so they wouldn't be involved.
      His home is now a Bed and Breakfast, down on the flats where all of the old Nauvoo sites are.....The owners were so gracious to allow us to  have our meeting there and gave us a very interesting tour.  The folks in our districts are the Gifford's, the Russell's and the Mayne's.  We love our district, they are amazing people.  They inspires us to be better.  As District leaders we meet each month and have a training on a topic that comes through the Zone leaders from the Mission President. It is always a challenge to find interesting ways to teach people who are giants in the Gospel.  We feel they should be teaching us....and they do!  We are so lucky to be here and are learning so much!