Cove Fort Days

During the two days, August 3-4, we had each room manned with a missionary so that the guests could go through at their leisure. Missionaries were stationed in the out buildings and near the video viewing rooms. We had about 3500 visitors to enjoy the free hot dogs, chips, drinks, wagon rides, stage coach rides, Joseph Smith video, Cove Fort video, reenactment village, soap making, bee keeper, bands, musical entertainment and more.

On Saturday, I had just finished covering the older girls room 5-6pm. We started cleaning up.

We stopped counting the visitors who drove in and started our usual pattern of giving tours to the guests. I went up to the MPR as my shift had ended. I was assigned some people who were walking toward the Fort. I found out it was a family with two teenage boys. They were from Belgium and they spoke Dutch. Their English was good and they seemed to comprehend my explanations well. They are traveling around the US. They have been to Las Vegas, Yellowstone and Salt Lake among several other places. They are headed to Zion, Bryce and the Grand Canyon. They stopped at Cove Fort for a break.

 I started teaching about the Church in the Telegraph room and continued on through the rest of the rooms. I talked about tithing in the Boy’s Room. In the Best Room we talked about how one becomes a prophet which continued through the last room. The father initiated the question. In the parents room I told them how I had participated in the sustaining of President Monson. The wife was ready to fill out a referral card as were the boys. The father said we (meaning him and his wife) have a difference of opinion about having a Book of Mormon delivered in Dutch. I told them that each person needed to decide for himself about the truthfulness of what I had shared with them. I told them that they didn’t come to the Fort by accident that the spirit had brought them here. I gave them the literature packet to read and study. I told them to mail the card if they changed their minds. She really wanted to fill it out right then. The spirit was strong. They loved the sharing toy and its message, including the father. What a neat family.