Sunday morning we got up and attended the 9:00am Sacrament Meeting in Palmyra. Afterwards we went up to the temple grounds and walked around and looked out on the Smith farm and over to the Sacred Grove. It was a beautiful morning.
There are in the middle of Palmyra four churches, one on each corner of an intersection on the main highway. They are wonderful examples of the beautiful churches in the area. They were all established in the early 1800's. Most of the congregations that started these churches were Joseph Smith's contemporaries. I couldn't help but thing of Joseph saying, 'there was in the place where we lived an unusual excitement on the subject of religion. It commenced with the Methodists, but soon became general among all the sects in that region of country. Indeed, the whole district of country seemed affected by it, and great multitudes united themselves to the different religious parties, which created no small stir and division amongst the people, some crying, “Lo, here!” and others, “Lo, there!” Some were contending for the Methodist faith, some for the Presbyterian, and some for the Baptist.' It is interesting that these four churches represent three that were noted by Joseph Smith as well as the Episcopalians.
Here we are at Niagara Falls. There was very heavy rain that day. We weren't sure if more water was coming out of the sky or over the falls.
Here Cheryl and I are at the top of the Hill Cumorah. By the time we had returned from Niagara, the weather had cleared and we had blue sky.
The last sight that we saw that day was the Peter Whitmer farm. It is hard to believe that the church that we now belong to started in this humble home with just six member. We got there after the tours were over, but we did have a good look. We then hightailed it for Boston. It was raining hard that night and we didn't get to the hotel until 2:00am Monday morning. It was a very long day.
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