LDS Travel Missouri Nauvoo Winter Quarters

Tour II – Missouri/Nauvoo/Winter Quarters Tours

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DISCOVER THE “DUES THE PIONEERS PAID & OUR GLORIOUS FUTURE” at incredibly beautiful & meaningful sites!  Tours fly into Kansas City and are met by a deluxe, air-conditioned bus which transports us in comfort to the important church history sites listed below.  We fly home from Omaha, just 11 miles from Winter Quarters.  This has important advantages compared with round-trip into Kansas City or St. Louis –  you are always seeing new sites rather than busing through the same places twice to return to the same airport.  We carefully follow Brigham Young’s trail across Iowa and explain many important sites and crucial events that took place along the way.  Omaha is near Winter Quarters allowing you to see the exceptional Mormon Trail Center visitor’s center and the lovely Winter Quarters Temple.  As has always been a tradition with Mormon Heritage tours, we visit the sites in the order that the history occurred, as closely as possible, making it easy to understand and remember.

Sites visited are listed below.  Tour hosts make good use of the time both on the bus and at the sites recounting stories of faith that occurred there, and explaining each site’s importance.  Especially moving are scripts representing people who lived this amazing history; these scripts are read in first-person by carefully-selected tour members.  A few examples: we hear the testimonies of Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer at their graves, Parley P. Pratt near the Richmond Jail where the rebuking of the guards took place, and the testimonies of Emma Smith and Mary Fielding on the sacred Far West temple site.  An eyewitness delivers an account of a miraculous healing at Hawn’s Mill after the massacre.  In Nauvoo, Mary Ann Young tells of the faith of Brigham and members of the Quorum of the Twelve upon departing for England on missions while sick with malaria.

Why is this tour named: “Dues They Paid & Our Glorious Future”?  Joseph Smith said, “Our children will rise up and call us blessed; and generations yet unborn will dwell with peculiar delight upon the scenes that we have passed through, the privations that we have endured; the untiring zeal that we have manifested; the all but insurmountable difficulties that we have overcome in laying the foundation of a work that brought about the glory and blessing which they will realize . . . to bring about the destruction of the powers of darkness, the renovation of the earth, the glory of God, and the salvation of the human family.”  Many great, prophetic events will yet take place at many of these sites.  Independence, Adam-ondi-Ahman (at the ushering in of the Second Coming), and dedicated temple lots will yet see their temples built.  The dues have been paid by the previous generation and the glorious future will be fulfilled!

Price and value are important to us.

So far as we know, there are no other quality tours visiting all the sites we do, in historical order, as we have always done, that do not charge significantly more.  Plus, our tours offer unique participation opportunities not available anywhere else.  If you see advertised similar tours that appear less expensive, please call us; they are likely missing something. 801-272-5601 or toll-free 866-335-5601.

Mormon Heritage Association Inc – MHA Tours, is an independent, private entity which offers inspiring tours exploring the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Tour hosts and tour planners are faithful members and diligent researchers/students of this history and are prepared to present the tours in a respectful and agreeable manner conducive to The Church of Jesus Christ’s teachings, attitudes, and direction.

Our published prices include:  all meals, very nice lodging, deluxe charter bus, tickets for any scheduled events, expert guide services, and all fees and taxes.  AIRFARE can be added once airline schedules are open.  No surprises tacked on to our modest prices!

Historical Sites Visited

Some site names are highlighted in green below – these are places where events took place of great importance in the history of the LDS Church, but are often skipped by other tours.

INDEPENDENCE MO

Site of ancient Garden of Eden. The lost ten tribes of Israel will gather here and build the great City of Zion before the second coming of Christ. A great temple will be constructed here that will eclipse anything we have yet experienced. It will be lighted day and night by a celestial source from above. The Lord will govern the world from this city during the Millennium.

RICHMOND MO

1. Site of Richmond Jail, where the Rebuking of the Guards by Joseph Smith took place.  It is often erroneously assumed to be the Liberty Jail.
2. Graves of Oliver Cowdery, Mary Whitmer, David Whitmer, Judge Austin King, and others.
3. Monument to heroic Alexander Doniphan.

LIBERTY MO

Liberty Jail where Joseph Smith was incarcerated with Hyrum and others. Some time later, Porter Rockwell also was imprisoned here on a false charge of attempting to kill Governor Lilburn Boggs.  Wonderful visitors center and inspiring missionary presentations.

FAR WEST MO

Third and last Missouri home of the saints before being driven out in 1839 by the Extermination Order.  Sacred dedicated temple lot.  Declared by President David O. McKay to be the site of a future “glorious Millennial city.”

ADAM-ONDI-AHMAN MO

Adam lived here for 900 years after expulsion from Eden.  He gathered together his righteous posterity before his death and prophesied everything of consequence until the end of the world.  Monumental meeting to take place here shortly before the Second Coming – Adam and all prophets who hold keys will attend.  Millions will attend from this world and others.

QUINCY IL

Lovely, upbeat, blessed town that rescued the saints when driven from Missouri by the Militias (mobs) in the middle of the winter of 1839.  Discussion of the monumental importance to the future of our country and of the Lincoln-Douglas debates – presented where one of these debates took place.

GREEN PLAINS IL

What is left of the town founded by Reverend Levi Williams, the minister who led the mob that killed Joseph and Hyrum at Carthage.  We pass by his grave and read his dire predictions for the Mormons, which have failed to come to pass.  We also read Joseph Smith’s counter-prophecies which are being fulfilled every single day.

WARSAW IL

The town that raised the Carthage mob.  Also home of Tom Sharp, the editor of the Warsaw Signal.  See the immense contrast with blessed Quincy.

NAUVOO IL

Founded in a swamp in 1839; the swamp was drained and a thriving, beautiful city emerged.  It was home of the Saints until they were driven from here in 1846, two years after the Prophet’s death at Carthage.   The second temple in this dispensation was built here and was later destroyed.  The rebuilt Nauvoo Temple was dedicated on June 27, 2002 at 5:00pm–the 158th anniversary of the day, and hour, that Joseph and Hyrum were killed at Carthage.  Today, visit wonderfully restored homes and shops with senior missionaries to learn about day-to-day life in the 1840s with pioneer skills and faith.  Share in a private meeting in the sacred space of the upper room of Joseph’s Red Brick Store.  Take a wagon ride pulled by excellent horses carefully cared for by skilled senior missionaries.  Skip rocks on the mighty Mississippi River.  Enjoy delightful pioneer entertainment to cap off the day.

Nauvoo Temple

Optional temple sessions in the glorious new Nauvoo Temple (if open on our travel date) – endowment session and/or baptism sessions.  Most (if not all) of our group members attend the temple together.  It is a joy to attend with new & dear friends made in the tour group!  Temple clothes can be rented, but be sure to take your recommend with you.

Carthage Jail

Scene of the murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith at the hands of an angry, vile mob in Illinois.  Powerfully moving missionary presentations at this restored site.  One cannot come away from this visit without feeling incredible emotions and gratitude.

IOWA MORMON TRAIL 

Follow the Mormon Trail across the former wilderness of Iowa.  Learn of the pioneers’ arduous journey thru storms, mud, freezing temperatures, and the good days, too!  Hear about the efforts of today’s Iowans as they discovery & preserve our history.

MT. PISGAH & Monument 

Most important & largest Iowa temporary settlement for our pioneers leaving Nauvoo.  Beautiful and peaceful setting atop rolling hillsides with a fitting monument to those pioneers who died at the site.  Fascinating wagon ruts on the pioneer trail with dug-outs, cabin sites, grave sites.

KANESVILLE IA

Council Bluffs, Iowa:  Brigham Young was sustained here as the president of the Church in 1848 after a return from the Salt Lake Valley.  That same year, a much-humbled Oliver Cowdery made the long, hard journey here to beg to be re-admitted to the Church in front of a thousand saints.  He was baptized nearby in Indian Creek by Orson Hyde.

WINTER QUARTERS NE

Just across the Missouri River into Nebraska.  Outstanding visitor’s center, pioneer cemetery with 600 unmarked graves, Avard Fairbanks Sculpture, and Winter Quarters Temple all located adjacent to each other!  Return home on a flight from Omaha.

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Missouri/Nauvoo/Winter Quarters

TOUR SCHEDULE

Price per person [2] by number of persons sharing motel room

SLC AIRFARE CAN BE INCLUDED!

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Tour Number # DaysPrice if One per roomPrice EACH if Two per roomPrice EACH if Three per roomPrice EACH if Four per roomSpecial Features & Tour Hosts
M112July 20-26, 2024
6.5-day tour
$2150 with SLC airfare
OR
$1700 if own airfare

$1780 each with SLC airfare
OR
$1330 each if own airfare
$1690 each with SLC airfare
OR
$1240 each if own airfare
$1630 each with SLC airfare
OR
$1180 each if own airfare
Includes TWO PAGEANTS in Nauvoo!! Nauvoo Temple session, as you wish. Great summer vacay!
HOSTS: Logan Zemp & Cyndy Zemp
M113September 14-20, 2024
6.5-day tour
$2120 with SLC airfare
OR
$1700 if own airfare
$1750 each with SLC airfare
OR
$1330 each if own airfare
$1660 each with SLC airfare
OR
$1240 each of own airfare
$1600 each with SLC airfare
OR
$1180 each if own airfare
Comfy, late-summer weather. Nauvoo Temple session, as you wish.
HOST: John Shoell
M114October 12-18, 2024
6.5-day tour
$2130 with SLC airfare
OR
$1700 if own airfare
$1760 each with SLC airfare
OR
$1330 each if own airfare
$1670 each with SLC airfare
OR
$1240 each of own airfare
$1610 each with SLC airfare
OR
$1180 each if own airfare
Autumn leaf season; cool, crisp weather. Nauvoo Temple session, as you wish.
HOST: Ron Millburn

If none of the above dates are suitable for your large group, please call us at 801-272-5601 to discuss the possibility of adding a tour to accommodate your schedule.

Host names are those currently scheduled and most likely to serve.  We reserve the right to make changes in tour hosts or adjustments to the tour schedule–which we will do only if absolutely necessary.

Mormon Heritage Association Inc – MHA Tours, is an independent, private entity which offers inspiring tours exploring the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Tour hosts and tour planners are faithful members and diligent researchers/students of this history and are prepared to present the tours in a respectful and agreeable manner conducive to The Church of Jesus Christ’s teachings, attitudes, and direction.

[1] Your reservation is secured with a $100 deposit per seat on a first-come, first-served basis.  The balance is due seven weeks prior to departure.  Mail checks to Mormon Heritage Association, 2367 W Goldenpointe Way, West Jordan, UT 84088.  Be sure to indicate the tour ID number or departure date and for whom you are paying.  Credit cards by phone +5% fee (card fee waived on initial deposit), 801-272-5601 or toll-free 866-335-5601.  Full terms and conditions contained in individual confirmation letters or available pre-deposit, if requested.

If you have to cancel, there is a $50/person cancellation/administrative fee, at minimum.  If someone takes your place, payments are refunded less any costs we incur to procure your replacement and $50 cancel/admin fee.  If nobody takes your place, you would lose $50 cancel/admin fee and any non-refundable costs at the time of your cancellation.

[2] Advertised prices include:  all meals (except at airports), nice lodging, deluxe charter bus, tickets to scheduled events, and expert guide services; *SLC GROUP AIRFARE included IF noted until all our air seats are claimed or airline requires purchase, whichever comes first.  Air from other cities also available, by request.  Individuals may provide own air to/from the tour (must coordinate with group flight schedule; discount given from above prices IF price is shown as including airfare).  Bus driver tip is additional & collected on tour.  No surprise add-ons.

If not flying with the SLC group (such as using award miles or coming from another city), it is your responsibility to notify MHA upon signup and coordinate your schedule with the group schedule.  Please call for details.  801-272-5601, 866-335-5601.

Traveling alone?  Would you like help finding a roommate to decrease your tour price?  Let us know when you REGISTER and we’ll do what we can to connect you with a compatible roommate.  You might just make a new, long-lasting friendship!

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