The Awakening

Bountiful High School A'Capella Choir

Day 5

8:00 AM Breakfast at the hotel

9:00 AM Leave for the LDS Temple Visitors Center

9:20 AM Arrive at Visitors center. Time to stroll the grounds and take pictures

The grounds of the Temple were so beautiful! It is probably one of my favorite temples! My neighbors, Tom and Anne Hardy, are on a mission at the Washington D.C. Temple Visitors Center so they were waiting for me, Tiffany, and Jack the moment we got off of the bus. Tom used to play the piano for me any time I sang in church, and it was really fun to be able to see him and Anne again.

Me and Matt Everett

Oh ya know, Me and Tiffany always trying to ruin someones picture!

I'm not sure how exactly this happened.. But it's funny!

BFF's 4 Life!

9:50 AM Meet at the Visitors Center

10:00 AM Workshop with Brian Bartoldus

Although this guy was tough, and very attentive to every detail, he was very good! And I think we had a really good workshop and learned a lot from him! Like, big alien, small box!

11:15 Leave for the Smithsonian

Landon decided to eat all the sour patch remnants...

I'm not all that sure that he liked it..

12:00 NOON Smithsonian/National Mall free time

First we went to the Air and Space Museum, it was really fun! Colton even rode a simulator plane! Then we went to the food court to eat lunch before heading back to the bus.

Me and Hanna at the Air and Space Museum



We decided to walk like ducks

Kendall kept walking like a duck..

Scary right?

2:30 PM Meet at the Holocaust Museum

The Holocaust Museum was one of my favorite things, but it was also one of the hardest things of the trip. I definitely think that everyone should take time to visit this museum. I held my one pretty well till I saw all of the stuff about children.. That's when I lost it and totally broke down. They have a little remembrance hall where you can go and sit after walking through the museum, and I sat in there for quite a while, just pondering.. It was definitely a highlight of the trip.

5:45 PM Depart for the Washington D.C. LDS Temple Visitors Center

6:30 PM Prepare for your performance

After getting dressed and ready, I went and sat down next to the Hardy's and talked with them for a while. My cousin Mark is serving a mission in Washington D.C. right now and had an investigator lined up to come with him, unfortunately the investigator backed out at the last minute so he couldn't come. So I wrote him a note and told Brother Hardy to give it to him. Although it was disappointing not to see him, it was cool hearing good things about him from the other missionaries there.

7:30 PM Performance at LDS Temple Visitors Center

This was definitely one of my favorite, and one of our best performances! It was so much fun to sing there and a big number of us were crying before the performance was over.

Who knew Hayden Call could ever take a bad picture??

9:30 PM Arrive back at hotel