The morning of day 8 started with an early morning visit to the Sacred Grove.
It was a beautiful cool morning. There was some fog, but the Grove was so peaceful and quiet. We sat in the Grove for a while. Then Dad went to visit the Smith restored homested, Alvins home, the cooper shop and the Young's barn. I walked back to the remains of the stone fence.
Then we made a visit to the Palmyra Temple. The Temple has beautiful stained glass windows with lots of trees . . . symbolic of the location at the Grove.
After lunch at the Akropolis . . . we went to the Grandin Press. The Church has done such a good job on the restoration of that visitors center. Although they won't use my father-in-laws bees wax! =8)
We also went by the Martin Harris home.
Then we went out to the Peter Whitmer farm in Fayette, NY.
This is the location where the Church was formed on April 6th, 1830. It is also the location (in the woods in the area) where the 3 Wintnesses where shown the Golden Plates by the Angel Moroni. Moroni also showed the plates to Mary Whitmer as a token of her unmurmuring service.
"One evening when she went to milk the cows, she said that a stranger with a knapsack spoke to her, explained what was going on in her house, comforted her, then produced a bundle of plates from his knapsack, turned the leaves for her, showed her the engravings, exhorted her to faith in bearing her burden a little longer, then suddenly vanished with the plates. She always called the stranger Brother Nephi."
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