Hope you all enjoyed your day, whatever you did. We're tired and still under the weather, so we didn't do much. We headed to the mall, ate cookies, checked out a ton of library books. Then we went to another shopping center and I spent my Bed, Bath and Beyond birthday gift cards (happy new bathroom to me from Mom and Melanie).
The book I'm currently reading, The Other Eminent Men of Wilford Woodruff, gives a list of all the past U.S. presidents, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and other historical figures, who appeared to Wilford Woodruff in 1877 in the St. George temple and asked him why no one had done their temple work yet. Wilford Woodruff wrote down their names and the names of the women and 50 other eminent men who came with them. He and Lucy Bigelow Young were baptized for all of them.
Along with the list, this book gives a small life sketch about each of the 50 men: Stonewall Jackson, Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Scott, Amerigo Vespucci, Seward (the guy who bought Alaska), artists, scientists, writers, political figures - very educational and inspiring. Grandma and Pa gave it to me for my birthday.