Fruits from Haiti

My last tour of the day was an elderly couple from Delta (who had been on a couple of missions before adopting four Haitian children) with two of their adopted children. They have two boys, 13 and 14 who are at scout camp. The boys are siblings with one of the girls. The darling girls were about 15-16.  The girls had been to Cove Fort a couple of times a few years ago. They were going to give me the tour, but after the first room they were caught up in the spirit of the Fort and asked me lots of questions. I was able to bear my testimony of tithing, reading the scriptures, the Book of Mormon, etc. It was so fun. They loved the sharing toy. We went to the out building and on the way we looked at each of the vegetables in the garden. They knew many of them. The parents didn’t say much and let me interact with the girls. We covered the blacksmith shop, the ox lift, the Jackson rake, the barn and the bunk house. In the bunk house we talked about being born in the era we belonged and the challenges for them in theirs. They didn’t seem to want to leave. We ended with the prairie schooner and I walked them back toward their car. We then had to name all the flowers in the beds. Sister Ayers cut them some flowers to smell and play with like the snapdragon and the lavender. We talked about making dolls out of the hollyhocks. They just may come to Cove Fort days.