As we made our way from Niagara Falls to Palmyra, we stopped in Mendon and saw the John Young (Brigham's Father) home. The front of it is on one side of the street and the rear on the other side of the street--don't know how they moved it. After going to the wrong cemetery, we went to the right cemetery and found the restored headstones of Brigham's first wife and Solmon Kimball.
Joseph Smith, Sr. log home where the Prophet Joseph lived when he saw the first vision and where Moroni appeared to him in his bedroom.
The frame home that Alvin started before he died. The Smith's finished it and moved in, but after financial hardship, they had to move back to the log home.
The hearth where Joseph hid the plates at one time.
Their threshing barn.
The cooper shop where he moved the plates from under the floor boards to under the hay in the loft and the mobbers didn't find them.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
We went to Church with Randy's cousin, Lloyd Thorsted and his wife, Karen. They are Palmyra Temple Missionaries and they were assigned to go the Penn Yan Branch of the Church for Sunday meetings. We had great lessons and afterward we drove around the finger lakes area of New York--specifically Lake Seneca. Later, they came and had dinner with us in our trailer and we talked until quite late.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Today is our 24th wedding anniversary. What better way to celebrate than to attend the Temple?
From these windows in the Temple, you can see the Sacred Grove.
We are standing across from the windows that look out to the Sacred Grove. That's the Sacred Grove behind us.
We attended the session with Lloyd and Karen.
We changed clothes and drove to Fayette where we toured the Whitmer Farm and Visitors' Center.
Joseph and Oliver moved from Harmony, PA to the Whitmer farm to finish translating the Book of Mormon. The farm is also where the Church was formally organized on April 6, 1830.
Upstairs where Joseph and Oliver worked.
That evening we attended family home evening with them. All the temple missionaries get together in the basement of the Temple President's house for family home evening each Monday night. That night, Brother and Sister Wallace shared slides and native dress from Mozambique where they served as mission president. It was great!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
First thing we went to the Sacred Grove because we wanted to experience it they way Joseph did. However, they were mowing the lawns around the visitor's center so it wasn't quite how he experienced it. Then we toured the Hill Cummorah Visitors' Center and watched the movie Joseph, Prophet of the Restoration. We had seen it last year at the Joseph Smith Memorial Bldg in Salt Lake, but after visiting all the places in the movie, it was really more emotional.
Hill Cummorah.
We walked around Hill Cummorah and then met Lloyd and Karen for the tour of the Grandin Building where the Book of Mormon was first published.
E. B. Grandin and his wife.
We found Alvin Smith's restored headstone in the cemetery in Palmyra.
Later, we drove down to Canandaigua with Lloyd and Karen for dinner at a nice restaurant.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
We did laundry and cleaned the trailer all morning and then decided to go back to the Temple and take some more pictures.
The Palmyra Temple is the only Temple with windows that you can see to the outside. These windows look out at the Sacred Grove. President Hinckley had them change the design so you could see the Grove from the Temple.
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