Martin's Cove Site

Hello Blogspot,
We have not written into our blog for some time.  At this time we are found in Sierra Vista, AZ where we are visiting our son Mike.  The are many things to keep us busy, sightseeing and repairing stuff around his house.  The weather has been cool, sometimes even cooler than in our Montana home.
I have never thought that I would miss Martin's Cove, but I have to admit that I do.  We were very busy, but there were times when we just sat among  friends, ate water melon and shot the breeze.  Maybe we can return to one of the sites in 2014 after our stint to help our home stake.
We have been asked by our stake to teach some methods of trek-ing to the leaders in our home stake.  We are trying to think of members who would be good at being "tour guides" and telling pioneer stories.  We have a few in mind and will approach them with the idea of helping young people understand what our pioneers went through sloshing across the wild west pulling handcarts, avoiding marauding indians and trying to keep their scalp.  Cold, hunger, illness and equipment breakdowns were the lot of those who traveled the "trail." We have visited Tombstone and Bisbee, AZ and have learned about the wild west and the mining industry of the past.  In Tombstone they did underground mining and in Bisbee open pit mining.  It is amazing to see the vast amount of open pit, colorful, beautiful.  They mined copper, silver, and gold.  The various stones and petrified wood reminded us of our Martin's Cove rock hound missionaries.  Tombstone saw the first Jewish settlement in Arizona.  A monument has been erected to that effect in the Tombstone cemetery.