Day 8-Saturday May 31, The scriptural Sabbath was Saturday and as we observed last night at the Western Wall the Jewish people had began to arrive.around 5PM as the sun set on Friday Afternoon, There Sabbath will end as the sun sets on this Saturday. This is the Jewish Sabbath and 7th Day Adventists and in Israel it has been designated at the LDS Sabbath Day by the 1st Presidency. The Muslims observe in a special way on Friday's with special focus at noon prayers and then taking Friday afternoon off for family time.This day we check out of the Olive Tree Hotel and go to the Orson Hyde Memorial Park on the Mount of Olives. Apostle Orson Hyde was sent be our Prophet Joseph Smith to Jerusalem in 1840 on Oct.24, 1841 Brother Hyde left the city early in the morning as the gates to the walled city opened and went to the Mount of Olives and prayed a revealed prayer of dedication. Another thing that President Lee set in motion in 1972 was to find a place where a memorial for Brother Hyde could be established in Jerusalem. It took 7 years to make all the arrangements but in 1979 Pres Kimball came and dedicated the park. We do not own the land or the park but the LDS building program built it in the name of Orson Hyde . We walk and talk and sing and bare testimony here in this beautiful quite place. Much of the talk centered on the ascension into heaven from the Mt. Of Olives. And that "He will yet come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven ' to the Mt of Olives
