Short Galilee Trip

We went to Galilee for a quick two day trip. It was so fun. We went to Meggido which is also the place of Armegedon. It was a key place to hold and thus a place of many battles. It switched hands frequently and thus was really cool to see from an archaelogical point of view. Pretty much all of our stops consist of old rocks or mountains/overlooks. Funny how that works. Nazareth was a fun stop. There are two churches to commemorate Mary the mother when she grew up and Christ and his family. It is interesting that Nazareth was not the ideal place to live and the people who lived there were all poor. One of our prophesors pointed out that Heavenly Father wasn't sending Christ into ideal conditions but was making him experience and overcome difficulties all the time. One of my favorite things about the a church there was it was covered in artwork from various countries. All I could think about was the excitement of knowing I could be called to serve in any of those countries.

There was a funny situation when Carlee accidentally ripped a little hole in the back of her pants. At the top of Mt. Arbel she fell off a rock and completely ripped the whole back side of her pants. I luckily had another pair of pants on the bus that she borrowed for the rest of the trip.

The culminating event of the trip was swimming in the Sea of Galilee. It is actually a lake and it was so warm. They received special permission to open it for us because it closed at the beginning of October. I have no idea why it closed because it was so warm I would have swam there in the middle of the winter. It was really fun. That night we had one of the professors who lectured about Revelations. It was pretty sweet. There is so much in the scriptures I wish I understood.

On the way back we stopped at Acco and Cesarea and they were really cool because they were so largely influenced by Rome and Greek that it has a strong European feel. There is tons of remains fully intact and it is an active dig site. I am really looking forward to when we go to Galilee for a week. It will be when we are studying the New Testament and we will have class two times a day. I am really excited for it.