Show led for a f a 4 W By NORMA S. S W WAN LASS 1st lust st 1963 We were on our way to the Hill Hilli Hilll l i mt nt Having been on the road for three days W numb our senses being dulled by the bright t the fleeing landscape the long lines of cars carsa a n us or with us Into hurried Indifference t New York City claimed to be the largest ld we expected wall to wall hard surfacing and tall suffocating buildings compacting i hysterical mass of blaring horns and Civilization they call it he e quiet unhurried oblivion of the far West f what was ahead and had left all arrangements I ra and family with a feeling of Why worry ij problem as It comes three cars traveling together from Detroit ur family Berts Bert's family and Bishop f- f few w close friends from their Detroit ward t THill Hill Cumorah about 3 0 o'clock clock in the afternoon of the rough plank benches already full and the being being used for parking filling rapidly with sere was a fountain where people waited in lC jc of water soft drink and candy dispensers all of which were ere Out of Order t day and His and Hers restrooms that reminded ort stations in our national parks in the West long ong lines of waiting people Perhaps this lids isI IsI is I fi I couldn't get too upset about the problems Connected o with our Mormon Miracle this past with the Hill Cum Cumorah rah Pageant in production could uld expect a little time to meet and master Sis thIs his infant Miracle I lush USh rolling hills of the countryside were in into into to what we had imagined New York would be lie e Immediate vicinity were very small and laid out in square blocks with wide streets jaa a lane that meandered through the countryside house now and again on either side geant there were bumper to bumper auto- auto Jas as one could see along the narrow roads We en en miles mUes knowing only that we were going to li home ome Macie was one of the close members Way day ay we cant can't recall her name or her face but butr r distinctly the hospitality that we received fer er was a convert to the Church Her husband rl They were originally from one of the southern 2 o lna lina I think They lived in a southern colonial Vo Wo story house Our hosts had retired when People people were rolling their sleeping bags out on ont t anywhere in the house one had to step over c The families slept in the dooryard in an anler anler anter ter ler ler we had pulled from Michigan n p Made s 's s sister was preparing gat Et t must have been Deen 45 people We had fruit juice th milk gravy over them typically southern tasked asked myself If I would have made hot biscuits ople that early in the morning We were famish famish- fam unable to find anything to eat at the pageant pageants es s we brought to piece on lable family so to speak we stayed and helped clean lean leand not W d not have an electric dishwasher We asked to strangers moving Inon in on them inas inasmuch much of or the Church Churchio JIT No io he understands how much the Church and supports me in most everything I do do I je we were feeling pretty humble and quite j dered if people here in Mormon Country r homes and pantries to total strangers asI as astad I tad iad done Would we women have made an effort I believed differently than we did or would we wean weI wean wean I an excuse or a way out It p W If If she's so anxious let HER do it To this I j rAn An ounce of judgment Is worth a pound of wit Sling ling ng now to the Pageant on pre-arranged pre bus bilS hester Chester New York about an hours hour's ride from Th lh We have Provo and Richfield with all the which certainly would not be too far away think the Mormon Miracle will fade away when ih Lh has seen It It is not just the members of flock to see the Hill HIlI Cumorah Pageant The Thea Therea tea rea a are predominantly non They too toon toong j n ng g for the MORMON MIRAC MIRACLE LEI f r r n li lit t 1 r. r I 1 I t t tn tp M n p H HY Y q Ogden and David Madsen Gunnison es In fhe The Cactus Flower at Snow College 1 I d Of r. r |