Comments on: A Road Trip with Living History…

By: James E Elliott

James E Elliott — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:30:40 +0000

This is really a comment on Barbara’s original post. I question her statement that Joseph lll tried to save his fathers legacy. He was a teen when his father died and he knew nothing of his works. He tried to whitewash his fathers legacy.

By: Russel Lane

Russel Lane — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:14:47 +0000

I about fell out of my chair laughing when I read Barb’s choice. I think it would be advisable to have Joseph Smith sit between the two of them!

By: Russel Lane

Russel Lane — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:11:29 +0000

I about fell out of my chair laughing when I read Barb’s post. I think you’d need to have Joseph Jr. sitting between them!

By: Margie Miller

Margie Miller — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:49:50 +0000

I would want David Smith to ride with me…before his breakdown, of course. David learned about his father’s polygamy in Utah and tried his best to convince his older brother of his findings to no avail. I would like to hear details about what he learned.

By: Nicholas Carroll

Nicholas Carroll — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:29:30 +0000

I would definitely love to be on a roadtrip with Emma Smith as my first choice. I want to know what she thought about polygamy, why she did not like Brigham Young, and if she wished she had a priesthood calling.

Joseph Smith would be my second choice, because there are questions I’d like to ask him…such as which church did he feel best represents the organization he established, what Nauvoo was all about, and why is Mosiah a basic word for word rip off of Isaiah?

By: dhowlett

dhowlett — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:58:20 +0000

I would want to take a trip with Joseph, Jr., Joseph III, and Fred M. Smith. However, I would want to pick each of them up along the way and drop off the one in car. I wouldn’t want to have the tension between a parent and his son present in such a conversation. (I would be nice, though, and put each one on a bus back to Independence rather than a ticket to Salt Lake.:-)

By: Barb Walden

Barb Walden — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:30:14 +0000

I have to admit, I wondered what the trip would be like with Emma and Brigham sharing the back seat.

By: Mormon Heretic

Mormon Heretic — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:12:58 +0000

I like most of the people you mentioned. Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, Martin Harris, would be real interesting. I’m not sure how you feel about Brigham Young, but it would be real interesting for him to see I-80 when he traveled by wagon across many of the same areas.

It would be interesting to see how Sam, Hyrum, and Alvin Smith viewed their brother–and how did you leave out Joseph?

By: Doug Gregory

Doug Gregory — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:43:06 +0000

I guess I would love to ride with my great=grandfather, Frederick Gregory. He was a contemporary and associate of J. J. Cornish (wouldn’t I love to find out what faith was really like from listening to those stories), he helped establish many congregations in the Canadian plains, and with his wife, he raised (whenever he was there) three young boys, who all lived in a sod house during the turn of the century in Alberta.

I think of the choices he made (right or wrong), of what he endured to share the gospel, and how his dedication to the church led my grandfather to barely maintain any ties at all to the church. My great-grandfather would accept only traveling money from the church, during a time when F.M. Smith allowed appointees to request their remuneration, while my grandpa and his brothers wrestled with the rocky soil at their homestead.

But, generations later, much of the Gregory family remains in the church, in no small part, I’m guessing, because great-grandfather had such a strong faith (and was probably as bull-headed as the rest of us who share his name!)

What an amazing trip that would be…

By: Lyle II

Lyle II — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:13:10 +0000

Hard to limit to a small number is right, perhaps harder still I know not the names of those who I would want to journey with, as while I would love to spend some time with the “known”; the ones whose names are less known call out to me more. To hear from those that represent the diversity that is Community of Christ today and in the past, the global history and present and not just the western institutional history. So perhaps One of the chorister or a member of the choir for the Kirtland Temple dedication, an early Tahitian member of the reorganization, a Community of Christ pastor from DR Congo, and a Community of Christ member from China, and hope that somehow the language barriers would fall apart as we commuted and shared together. If the vehicle was large drawing people from the history of the reorganization in India, Australia, South America, Russia, Europe… and upon those who lived in the worst housing in Kirtland and Nauvoo, someone baptized by one of the big missionaries of the church in the days of charts and more, those who attuned early reunions… would also be interesting to hear from, as would be those who stood up for equality, peace, and justice and were persecuted both from within and from without the church community perhaps even to the point of leaving…
Thus giving me the option to expand my encounter and learn the history, present and potential future of a global family that follows the Living Christ…