Haun's Mill

After visiting Liberty Jail we drove to a town where there was a monument for Haun's Mill. I don't remember the name of the place at the moment. The actual site of Haun's Mill is now a working farm and private property so we couldn't go there but we came to the monument. It is in a park so we got out our rolls and sandwich meat and ate some lunch.

And some crazy children decided to play in the snow or what was left of it. I however was not foolish enough to participate in these activities. ;)

I like this swing and wood have sat in it had there not been a huge pitt of mud underneath it. So I took a picture instead.

 After we at lunch we talked about what happened at Haun's Mill which the story really hit me because of the importance to follow the prophet. Here is a quote from Henry B. Eyring about Haun's Mill. He gave it in conference April 1997. He can tell the story better than I can.

 

"When tensions ran high in northern Missouri in the fall of 1838, the Prophet Joseph Smith called for all the Saints to gather to Far West for protection. Many were on isolated farms or in scattered settlements. He specifically counseled Jacob Haun, founder of a small settlement called Haun’s Mill. A record of that time includes this: “Brother Joseph had sent word by Haun, who owned the mill, to inform the brethren who were living there to leave and come to Far West, but Mr. Haun did not deliver the message.” Later, the Prophet Joseph recorded in his history: “Up to this day God had given me wisdom to save the people who took counsel. None had ever been killed who [had abided] by my counsel”. Then the Prophet recorded the sad truth that innocent lives could have been saved at Haun’s Mill had his counsel been received and followed.

 

"n our own time, we have been warned with counsel of where to find safety from sin and from sorrow. One of the keys to recognizing those warnings is that they are repeated. For instance, more than once in these general conferences, you have heard our prophet say that he would quote a preceding prophet and would therefore be a second witness and sometimes even a third. Each of us who has listened has heard President Kimball give counsel on the importance of a mother in the home and then heard President Benson quote him, and we have heard President Hinckley quote them both. The Apostle Paul wrote that “in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established” (2 Cor. 13:1). One of the ways we may know that the warning is from the Lord is that the law of witnesses, authorized witnesses, has been invoked. When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention and fill our hearts with gratitude to live in such a blessed time."

This is a mill stone from Haun's Mill. (Or so they believe.)

Here is the group or most of us anyway. I think we are missing a few people.

So what I learned here is that we need to follow the counsel of the Prophet. That is why we have one.

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