Visiting Palmyra

Emma, Jacob, Paul and I were able to visit the Sacred Grove this Spring Break and were grateful for the opportunity to see where the Restoration took place. Here are some photos we took of the area. If you look very close you can see the Temple trough the trees, this was taken in the grove itself. As you can see the leaves were not on the trees yet, but things were beginning to bloom. It was very peaceful and there were plenty of benches placed throughout the grove to allow you to just think, even the kids enjoyed just being still for a while. Because of the time of year there were not a lot of visitors to the grove, we had one other guy there and we never saw him once we entered the grove.


We also had a chance to go through the Smith's log home and also the larger home they built later, where the records were translated and hidden from the mobs from time to time. The small home that you see is a very accurate reconstruction of the home where Joseph was living at the time of the first vision, also where the angle Moroni came to visit him. The original log home was destroyed long ago but the footings and root cellar were still there, the Church built it as accurately as they could. The larger home is the original structure. The whole thing was awsome!!