July 3 Ft. Smith Zone Temple Trip

First time with President and Sister Hathaway and also their daughter, Dasia, who joined us.

Being in the temple is always a sweet experience.  Being there with these awesome young missionaries in a dedicated missionary only session is so powerful...and having President Beutler in our session made it even more so.  (He serves in the temple on Wednesday mornings and was able to lead our session.)

The elders with the Hathaways and President Beutler
and the APs- Elder Shields and Elder Cebollero

The Zone plus the Stephensons and Hathaways and President Beutler

Sisters Cherrington, Gray, Beagley, Witt, and Jena

With Dasia and President Beutler

And while taking yet another different road from Bentonville to Ft. Smith.....

We sent this photo to Scarlett--
She loved that we shared it with her.

Just down the street from Scarlett's street was the fun display of bird houses.  This yard was so beautiful and covered mostly in flowers and bushes.

To "justify" my chicken purchase recently, I like to continue to get photos of chickens that we see around the area.  It is truly an Arkansas THING!

And it is always great to learn a little history along the way....

And can't miss the opportunity for a good hay bale field.....and with a fence as well--double bonus points.

And our route headed a bit too far west...

and slipped into Oklahoma for a bit.

Tree tunnels are always a great feature on a road trip.

And fields and fields of hay bales....almost as good as a painting!

And we are back......almost missed the sign.

Fun day, nice road trip, glad to be home and get ready for another day of road tripping to Mena for July 4th!