Guest Speaker, due Sept. 11th

1. The most difficult thing for me to understand is why I didn't know about this stuff earlier! :) I think that was one of the coolest things I've ever learned about! At some times it was diificult to imagine how they came up with some of the things they did, they were so creative! Like George Q Cannon referring back to previous letters and the names in those letters! Genius! I just think it is so awesome, and I would really love to learn more about it! Another thing that was hard to think about was adults learning the deseret alphabet. I guess it might come more easily than I think, but either way, that alphabet was sweet looking!
2. OK, as stated before, learning that stuff was Saaaweeet!!! I loved it!!! Good call on bringing her in to lecture Dr. Jenkins! I have a new motivation and desire to learn this stuff! I loved learning all the different ways that the church members used ciphers and codes! I guess I should've thought that they needed to earlier, but I never thought of it. I can't wait to tell my husband about the crazy code names they used in the D&C and see if he knew that. (I like knowing things about the scriptures that he doesn't, cause he always knows everything!:)) I thought it was really cool/cute how the Kane's wrote letters using a cipher. I know it was probably important stuff and not cute romantic stuff, but I like to think that sometimes it was :) and it makes me want to make up a secret cipher for me and my husband and write cool letters! I never realized why Parley P. Pratt was killed, all because that stupid 1st husband of his wife killed him, that stinks! I wish that they could've got away and pulled everything off. And the last thing, (that I can think of) that I thought was cool, was the Larrabee's Cipher! That would be really fun to do! Make up some code word and then write it all out! I think this stuff is so fun and cool to learn about! Thanks for letting us do that!