After our shift serving at the Hill Cumorah Visitor Center yesterday, the center was decommissioned for the next eight months. It will be fully retooled with new themes, displays, and artwork. Visitors will still be able to walk the paths to the top of the hill, but the facility will be closed.
My favorite part of giving the tours there has been taking the visitors into the Christus Room. The center figure in the room is a replica of Thorvoldsen’s “Christus” statue. The room creates a comforting reverence for the Savior.
Before I play for them a brief audio reading of the words of Jesus from the New Testament and Book of Mormon, I explain that, for me, this is a “reminder room.” At all of our historic sites we teach about the important people and events of the early days of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, this room reminds us that the central figure, the initiator and leader of this work is Jesus Christ. He coordinated everything—getting the right people in the right places in the right times. He was in the details.
I also remind them that He still the leader, the coordinator, and is very much still in the details of the ongoing Restoration of His gospel.
How grateful we are. How much I’m going to miss this frequent reminder as we cease giving tours here until spring.
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