Day 5 - Nauvoo

I have been wanting to go here for quite some time so this day is super exciting for me.  Lots to see and do and since I'm in charge we are going to enjoy it all.

 Driving from Chicago to Nauvoo
Travel distance 269.2 miles  Average speed 62mph
Travel time 4 hr 19 mins
fuel consumption 12.8 gal  $38.40



The Nauvoo Temple


The 113th operating temple of the church located at
50 North Wells St., Nauvoo, Illinois 62354
dedicated June 27-30, 2002 by Gordon B. Hinckley
Temple Facts
The Nauvoo Illinois Temple is a reconstruction of the original Nauvoo Temple built in the 1840s and destroyed by fire in 1848.
Unlike most Latter-day Saint temples, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple and its statue of the angel Moroni face west. The temple points toward the Mississippi River.
The largest temple baptismal font in the Church is located in the Nauvoo Illinois Temple.
The Nauvoo Illinois Temple features beautiful hand-painted murals on the walls of its progressive-style ordinance rooms: Creation Room, Garden Room, World Room, Terrestrial Room (no murals), and Celestial Room (no murals).
The Nauvoo Illinois Temple is one of only seven temples where patrons progress through four ordinance rooms before passing into the Celestial Room. (The other six temples are the Manti Utah Temple, the Salt Lake Temple, the Laie Hawaii Temple, the Cardston Alberta Temple, the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple, and the Los Angeles California Temple.)
The Nauvoo Illinois Temple was dedicated on the very day and hour of the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Temple Quote
"Today, facing west, on the high bluff overlooking the city of Nauvoo, thence across the Mississippi, and over the plains of Iowa, there stands Joseph’s temple, a magnificent house of God. Here in the Salt Lake Valley, facing east to that beautiful temple in Nauvoo, stands Brigham’s temple, the Salt Lake Temple. They look toward one another as bookends between which there are volumes that speak of the suffering, the sorrow, the sacrifice, even the deaths of thousands who made the long journey from the Mississippi River to the valley of the Great Salt Lake." —Gordon B. Hinckley

We leave Nauvoo and drive to St. Louis
Travel distance 184.9 miles   Average speed 59 mph
Travel time 3 hours 7 mins
fuel consumption 8.8 gal  $26.40
The St. Louis Missouri Temple


The 50th operating temple of the church located at 
12555 North Outer Forty Dr  St. Luis, Missouri 63141
dedicated June 1-5,1997 by Gordon B. Hinckley

Another incredible day, but sadly also the half way mark through this incredible journey.  Till tomorrow... Good night.

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