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
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So we just ralked mom and figured out that the mountain we traveled up on was, where Jesus went and fasted for 40 days, and satan tried to tempt him with all that he could see, I thought as I stood there, Sweeping my arm out and around and saying all this could be yours! Well, it was pretty dry and hot, and I not sure I would want it, but our host told us in jesus's day, this whole area was a thriving trade area. Anyway, right now they have a monistary up there and a plave for visitors like us to eat, there was a man trying to sell us something but we told him we were mormon and that we were obsurving the sabbath, he asked what else do we believe in, what obout the relationship between a mam and his wife, I told him, one man, and forever, and you? He said same thing, one woman will be more than he wants. It was after this that we were told we went to the LDS Chapel and found out that we are not to speak about our religion, that there are spies out there just waiting for us to mess up, and than from what I understand they could close down the BYU Center. It was interesting and sad that at the Orson Hyde park , the signage in many places has been removed or disgraced.
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