Hezekiah's Tunnel and Meeting Moses

This last monday we had a field trip and headed down to the City of David. It is south of the temple mount where Solomon built the Temple. David came to this city and conquered the Jebusites and turned it into the City of David. There is a spring called Gihon spring that supplies the water to the city and for that reason was Hezekiah's tunnel was built.
When the Assyrians came to destroy the city of david Hezekiah needed to protect their only source of water from being poisened, cut off, or just taken. It was very vulnerable and on the edge of the city and if it was taken the Assyrians surely would have won quickly. So to get the water to a different more protected area of the city Hezekaih built this tunnel that we walked through on monday. it was really cool!! It is about a half mile long and has water that is about thigh high. The walls are about 3 feet apart from each other and the roof always varied from about 30 feet high to about 4 feet high. I hit my head alot...
We walked through the whole thing singing, doing konga lines, and for about 15 minutes turned off all our lights and just walked. It was a cool experience to see and do.
Before going into the tunnel we saw ruins of David's palace, which is pretty cool. Parts and pieces of Nehemiah's wall, remember Uctdorf's talk -"We have a great work to do and will not come down." They built that wall in a short 52 days.
We also saw a very pro-Israeli movie about how the Jews had been in the land thousands of years ago and deserve the land here today. I love all the little subtle hints that both sides of the conflict give. It's kind of fun to see and notice them.
After everything we were all wet so we went back to the JC and changed clothes, did a little homework, and went back out into the city. We went to St. Marks house again because last sunday we didn't have enough time to go into the upper room. This house is significant because this is where supposedly Jesus and the 12 had the last supper and after the death and ressurection of Christ he reappeared here to the 12 again. It is a pretty cool aramyic church. The first christian one in Israel actually. The upper room is acually downstairs because of the time and destruction of Jerusalem. All ancient stuff is 50 or more feet below our feet because of all the rubble that has built up over the centuries.
When we got to the church they were just staring their prayer meeting they have everyday at 4:00 so we decided to stay and see what it was like. It went on for about 20 minutes and they had two priest in the front with a king/pope like guy that would put a crown on and would kiss his staff with a cross on the top of it. The two priest would mumble and recite their memorized prayers. It was pretty cool and I enjoyed it. Afterward we asked the guy to go downstairs and he let us go down and it was nice. Nothing much was down there but it was just cool to think that the ressurected savior could have walked. We went back up stairs and started to talk to one of the priests that did the prayer, named MOSES!! He was a really cool guy that actually lived in Holland. So we talked about that for a while and he taught us some aramayic words. Shalomo is hello and toudie is thank you. So when you all die and go to see our Judge you should all go and greet him in his native language and say, "Shalomo" to Him. We talked for like 30 minutes and now we have a aramayic priest friend that gave us a free picture. He told us that we were invited to come to a special meeting with the President of Armenia and the head partiarch were coming to visit their church. He invited us but we can't be out at night so we couldn't go. Could you imagine meeting the Armenian President in Jerusalem? We were just thinking if we went there would be all these men and we would just be like..."yeah, we are just Byu students living here for 4 months. Nice to meet you President". It was a great day!
I'll put pictures in someday...