21 - Monday, September 8, 2025 -- Two Discoveries

Nauvoo Temple Creation Room

Here, hand-painted murals especially commissioned for the Nauvoo Temple symbolically depict the earth's creation and help remind us of the magnificent beauty of God's creations and of His love for us. 

The creation room is the first in a series of instruction rooms in which we are taught about God's eternal plan for His children. In this room, we learn of our premortal life with a loving Heavenly Father and of the plan of happiness for us during our mortal existence.   

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We took a short drive north on Nauvoo's Main Street and came to the old Nauvoo Quarry site:

The sign, a sunstone, and across the bridge is the actual quarry site, beautiful, peaceful, but filled with water after these many years. 

On Tuesday we went with a group across the river to Montrose to see the Phoenicia Ship Restoration Site.   

"The Phoenician Ship Expedition led by Phillip Beale recreated a 6th century BC Phoenician voyage using a replica ship.  This very ship departed from Syria in 2008, sailed through Suez Canal, around the Horn of Africa, along thew west coast of Africa, through the Strait of Gibraltar,, and across the 

Mediterranean before returning to Syria. In 2019, this ship sailed to America and landed in Florida. Both journeys aimed to demonstrate sea worthiness of ancient Phoenician ships.  This vessel, 

Phoenicia, modeled after the 2,600-year-old Jules Verne 7, sailed 30,000 miles, proving ancient seafaring capabilities.  However, the ship then needed reconstructing.  Its components were shipped to Montrose, Iowa, where it has been being reconstructed."  

The group is out of funds, and we were told the board is in negotiation with three entities for the ship to be sent to Salt Lake City.  

If interested, the website is www.phoenicia.rocks.

Here are some photos of what we saw: