Passages.......Wow. May 29th

Hello
Today Drew and Tess went "ice blocking" with the kids from yesterday's post at 9am.
They didn't end up going to the movies last night instead they went to a park and played groundies (not sure what that is)
The mission meeting I went to was great, what a neat bunch of folks. I got my hair cut, It looks strange to me, maybe it won't after I style it.
The main reason I am posting again today is because of Passages.
Tess and Karlyn will go to passages when they are at Summit camp, so they stayed home.
Mrs. Leander, Kasey, Drew and I went to passages.
It is an exhibition about the Bible. We saw pieces of the Dead Sea scrolls on papyrus paper, learned that in Egypt, part of the Torah was used to make the brightly painted mummy masks and people have dissolved the masks to retrieve the scriptures. We saw Torahs from all over the world covered in many different styles...for example the Moroccan covers had a
Moroccan look and the French and Spanish covers had very different feels to them.

We copied scripture in caves by candle light, saw a replica of the first printing press which copied a grape press. Gutenberg was an amazing man, his attention to detail and drive for perfection along with his skills amazed me. We saw copies of the first editions of scripture printed.
Next we walked through history and the battle to translate the scriptures. There were life size wax figures that talked. The figures were of St. Jerome, Anne Boleyn,Tyndall, Knox and others.
It was a wonderful way to see history and always in every room , through all of the exibits there were cases and cases of bibles from all countries belonging to several famous people. It was very exciting.

There were displays on the archeology, Holocaust and my favorite the moon.
After walking through the difficulty and amazing struggles folks went through to have the Bible and preserve it, the last display I walked through was the Lunar one.
I was tired and not reading everything any more.
The display boxes were sparse and I was perplexed why the displys started over with the same things...first the rocks that were carved into, then the Papyrus paper again and a bible here and there as it advanced through time, then the room looks like you were standing on the moon with the space shuttle off to the side and there was a case with a medallion on a black pillow.
I didn't read it at first but the caption was the "Bible on the moon." I looked for it, I thought maybe that's not a pillow but a case. As it turned out the medal was the bible the whole Bible, every word was in a space less that 2 inches by 2inches on micro fish.
There was a computer screen beside that allowed me to move the words to a size I could read.
Wow
What a walk through history and to see how we have gone from carvings on a rock to sending the whole thing to the moon made anything seem possible!

I highly highly recommend this exhibit which has been around only two years and in Co for only 6 months.
I hope this finds you well, thanks for reading :)
Carla