So today I went to Palmyra and it was one of the coolest things I have ever done. We started out the day going to the Palmyra temple and you can see the sacred grove from inside the lobby of the temple. It is the only temple that has a window that has a clear see thew window.
Then we went to the sacred grove. That was pretty cool. It was different then what I thought it was going to be though, they don't have a X marks the spot of where it all happened, its just this grove that you walk around in and ponder, and pray it was a very neat experience. Plus the temple is almost literally a stones throw away from the sacred grove. I know that what brother Joseph said he saw in that grove, really did happen, and because it happened everything else he said is true.
Then we visited the home of Joseph Smith which is really kind of cool, the house they built after the farm was finished. Is 85% original I literally have stood on the same floor as prophet would have stood on. To me that's kind of cool.
Then I went to see the place where the Book of Mormon was first printed. That was one of the coolest tours I have seen. They teach you all about how they would print and bind it, and it is a very long process. At the end of the tour they have the a little art gallery and they have the original painting of Moroni burying the plates, and of Christ coming to the Americas it was cool.
Then we went to the Hill Camorah and that was a lot of fun. it is a little hill only 100-150 feet elevation rise and it is highest thing I have seen the entire time I have been here.
Then we went to the David Whitmer farm in Fayette. And like everything else I have seen this trip was amazing. They told us how the church was reorganized here and told us how this was also the same place where the three witnesses received their vision of the gold plates. It was really cool all day I have stood where angles have stood and could feel of the sacredness of these places.
It was interesting tough when we got here we checked in to our hotel and asked the guy at the front desk what the easiest way to get to Palmyra was, (we are about 10 min. out from palmyra) and he did know. I thought how sad is this you are 10 minutes away from one of the most sacred places on earth and you don't even know about it. Something happened there that changed my life and all of eternity, and you don't know about it. It has given me a desire to serve a mission and educate the world about what I know.
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Wha?! Youd didn't tell me you were heading back East! Tcha! sounds like you're having fun. You'll have to tell us even more about it when you come home, eh?
Palmyra is an amazing place, the presence of the spirit there is unlike anywhere I have been. But the best part is that Palmyra is in of the Rochester New York mission, I'm going to serve where the church started.
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