I wish I had the capacity to describe in words the events of this day. But I shall try and convey in small part what we have done.
Today we took the missionaries on a historic tour of the early church sites in Lancashire. It was here that Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, Willard Richards, Joseph Fielding and others opened the work in the British Isles in 1837. Entire congregations joined and literally thousands were baptised and immigrated to Utah.
We began the tour at the Obelisk in the market square in downtown Preston. This was a popular place for street preaching in the early days of the church. It is also the place where GBH (Gordon B. Hinckley) did his first street preaching. In fact, the very day he arrived in Preston he was met by his companion who told him that in the evening they were going to the Market Square to preach. GBH, who was by nature a very shy young man said to his comp,
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